Buying cars from Japan
 

Anyone have any experience buying a vehicle from Japan and registering it in Canada or the States?

you cant import a car from japan into the states that is not available for purchase here..
ie: nissan skyline, unless you put a big bond up.. also it must conform to u.s vehicle regulations

So something like a Supra, MR2 or Celica can be imported


and what do you mean by bond..


bond...james bond?

why not just go to a dealer, they have imported cars for sale already

they have places that can import cars and alter them so they pass our safety and emissions... oh yea and left hand drive also.

www.evolutionimports.com

RHD. Love it. Just like the UK, babe. :D

you do realize they drive on the other side of the road !

if you import you need to add the cost of converting them
to left/right hand drive!
:glugglug

Right hand drive will be fun. Imagine the looks you get when you get out of the passenger side.


It will feel like your driving a mail truck too!

Yeah and it will work real well until you need to buy food at a drive thru or use an atm or go to the bank.

man i will tell you dont go here and ask the board this shit , for trust me , this is a matter that can get fucking sticky i have been threw it ,
if it isnt set up for the usa standers trust me you are fuck , in the usa they have all the epa regs there that it more then likly not get in ,
also alotof country not use or build the cars the same ,

a bmw or a merc that is made in Thai is a not hafe the car if you get it from german , so man i am not to sure why you want it but you better check into that deep and hard , for to the dmv place and call around

Just go to the Rally's by my house. They have two drive-through lanes, one of which has the pickup window on the passenger's side.

SpaceAce

Im in Canada and Im not to sure what the regs are regarding this..
The reason I am interested in JDM vehicle is the car I was going to buy was sold. I've also seen a few other japanese vehicles around including a skyline. It would be interesting to see what it takes to register one here.

Why don't you just have a local dealer order you a car?

if you were going to go the supra / mr2 route, why not just buy the cheapest one you can find here and import a JDM-spec engine / etc...? if you're in vancouver, there's plenty of shops that should be able to do that for you, and it sure beats the hell out of paying to convert a car to LHD