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Originally Posted by Justin.b
I didn't realize the wait was so long. I had read some Aussie car websites years ago and it just seemed as if relatively recent Japanese gray market machines were easily available.
Is the waiting period a recent change, or were the cars I read about just entirely illegal? Or is it something like we have in the US, where you can only import it if that vehicle wasn't sold in the US (there are still other requirements to bring it in).
-Justin
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yea its like the US in that respect the cars cannot be a grey import if the manufacturer specifies it is coming to AUS within a certain amount of time after the unveiling of the car thats how nissan screwed themselves the left the nnouncement to late that the were going to bring in the GTR so the importing companies jumped straight onto that loophole and were able to bring them in, also we dont get as many cars as you guys do over there to be a direct competitor to cars sold locally here so thats a reason the grey imports list may be better than yours.
and yes even after the cars are allowed to be privately imported they have to go through a thourogh compliance before they are allowed to be registered for road use
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Bounce summed it up so much better