Nissan GTR Grey Import

tvr

What are the legalities around doing this, say for example I was to buy for export in Japan and ship home to Dublin?

Blitzkrieger

Google some threads on importing from Japan - there shouldn't be any difference with a new car.

If I win the lotto tomorrow, I'm going to contact New Era Imports in the UK. They have a consignment of JDM spec due in March at Stg52,000ish on the road. They weren't all sold last I heard. It might be cheaper to buy it in the UK with the VAT already paid and bring it home then.

First UK spec cars aren't due until March 2009. V-spec will take even longer.

Gatster

Best Google it, EVO mentioned Nissan are implementing restrictions (not sure how) to prevent this, but there are already ones for sale in the UK.

EDIT: D'oh, beaten to it above

tvr

no tried the uk crowds, all sold out and there charging a huge premium, its much cheaper if I pay the premium in japan and arranging shipping myself.

I am just worried about the european pollution standard thing put I presume if they can be landed in uk than thay can be landed everywhere else in europe.

Is it possible to ring rosslare and see what the charge vrt wise on these now , presume as its a nissan they might not have a clue . Rather get it landed before the tax change in July.

Gatster

There you go...bad enough if you were getting it through a trader, but no come back at all if you do it yourself and it goes wrong.

Biro

tvr wrote: »

no tried the uk crowds, all sold out and there charging a huge premium, its much cheaper if I pay the premium in japan and arranging shipping myself.

I am just worried about the european pollution standard thing put I presume if they can be landed in uk than thay can be landed everywhere else in europe.

Is it possible to ring rosslare and see what the charge vrt wise on these now , presume as its a nissan they might not have a clue . Rather get it landed before the tax change in July.

Don't worry, they'll have a clue alright!
Also, if you can afford to buy one of these, surely the road tax won't be much of a problem will it?

drdre

there's one for sale here

http://www.carzone.ie/usedcars/index.cfm?fuseaction=Car&carID=875711&message=You%20searched%20for%3A%20Nissan%20Skyline%2C%20Year%3A%202007%2E%20Your%20search%20returned%20one%20vehicle%2C%20which%20is%20shown%20below%2E&CFID=487063&CFTOKEN=74023705

Mr.Boots

Anyone know how much they are here?? 90/100k??

TheBazman

I'd say more like 130/140k

Gatster

So imagine the scenario, your €90-130k GTR decides to go into limp home mode, ie. it's trying to limp home to Japan. Without a cast-iron support guarantee it's a bit of a gamble :rolleyes:

Silver-Tiger

There will be 9 deilvered to nissan Ireland in dec
Price aint as much as people think 70-80k

galwaytt

Gatster wrote: »

So imagine the scenario, your €90-130k GTR decides to go into limp home mode, ie. it's trying to limp home to Japan. Without a cast-iron support guarantee it's a bit of a gamble :rolleyes:

kinda like a BMW i-i-i-can't-drive, then.........:rolleyes:

Gatster

Silver-Tiger wrote: »

There will be 9 deilvered to nissan Ireland in dec
Price aint as much as people think 70-80k

Eh? The 'official' price being vaunted in the UK is about £55k from what I read, which equates to about €73k, meaning that even with a ceiling price of €80, VRT would be €7k???

Do you have insider knowledge here?

Biro

Gatster wrote: »

Eh? The 'official' price being vaunted in the UK is about £55k from what I read, which equates to about €73k, meaning that even with a ceiling price of €80, VRT would be €7k???

Do you have insider knowledge here?

Check the price of some other £55k car in UK versus the € price here.

Silver-Tiger

Gatster wrote: »

Eh? The 'official' price being vaunted in the UK is about £55k from what I read, which equates to about €73k, meaning that even with a ceiling price of €80, VRT would be €7k???

Do you have insider knowledge here?

I work for a Nissan Dealer, I was at the conference in nov for 2008 products thats what they are saying pricewise .

Gatster

Biro wrote: »

Check the price of some other £55k car in UK versus the € price here.

Like these possible competitors (in a roundabout way) you mean, not sure of your point here:

Audi RS4 - UK £51030/Ireland €104130
BMW M3 - UK £50625/Ireland €103900

Blitzkrieger

I have to wait until December for Godzilla? .......once I win the lotto tonight.....

TheBazman

Gatster wrote: »

Like these possible competitors (in a roundabout way) you mean, not sure of your point here:

Audi RS4 - UK £51030/Ireland €104130
BMW M3 - UK £50625/Ireland €103900

I agree - you can usually just double the GBP figure and take that as Euros (as a rough approx). So to me that would mean £55k roughly equating to €110. I'm not sure what options would be available but at least €120k would seem possible. 70-80k just doesnt seem right to me - at that rate why would you buy a 1 - 2 yr old M3 when you can have a Porsche Turbo equalling/beating GT-R for around the same money?

tvr

Silver-Tiger when are you guys taking deposits then? How many dealers will get the official gtr dealership for ireland ie.. can service the things. I presume if theres only 8 cars then theres going to be only 1 . Which makes the expense of getting all the equipment in just to service the thing a lost leader unless your charging a premium on the things.

By the way the rrp in japan is around 50,000 euro (plus a few brown envelopes) and some people are telling me I could land it for 45k in the uk if I do it myself which would in your theory equate to 90,000 euro in ireland? So maybe he on to something.

tvr

also how aware would the vrt office be to a 100k plus nissan?

SoldierForce

I tried to import a GTR, actually booked it with NewEra and was going to be delivered to Dublin by some agent of theirs in Bray. Problem was the VRT. NewEra will deliver the car but won't be responsible for VRT pre or post july 2008. The VRT office don’t have GTR on their system and I was told they will add it after having a look around. I guess this look around will probably last till after July 2008, so there went all my hard work of importing it before the new tax rule! Not actually a good idea to import it now when it's just out as the premium and extra cost is just unbelievable and I guess will drop sooner rather then later! The only benefit is being the first to own the GRT other then that I don't see anything else!

Blitzkrieger

SoldierForce wrote: »

The VRT office don’t have GTR on their system and I was told they will add it after having a look around. I guess this look around will probably last till after July 2008

They'll probably just inspect the car and make up a OMSP on the spot. They won't refuse to register it.

YOU LUCKY, LUCKY BASTARD!!!!

Mr.Boots

I would imagine 100k is the top price for it....i would put it somwhere between 90k and 100k.
Awesome car....but what about resale? Very small market for something like this in ireland.