Japan...

"Flavien Vidal" (flyingfrenchy) 08/26/2015 at 01:59 • Filed to: None

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... The country where you can find C6 Corvette with a manual transmission and 20000 miles on the clock for 30k$.

Damn, this is tempting to save a little for it. Ô so tempting!

http://www.carsensor.net/usedcar/detail…

The fact that nobody likes them here is freaking awesome!!!

911e46z06 > Flavien Vidal 08/26/2015 at 02:03

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Hell yeah dude. I highly recommend buying red C6s you can’t really afford.

Flavien Vidal > 911e46z06 08/26/2015 at 02:05

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Meh, I can afford it, but I don’t buy cars on credit or anything, cash only (if not cash, money I actually have lol). So I’d need to put a good 15k$ on the side to buy it. But that would also mean I can kiss goodbye to the 911SC I want to buy early next year.

Anon > Flavien Vidal 08/26/2015 at 02:10

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I would hate to pay Japan’s gas prices to drive that thing!

911e46z06 > Flavien Vidal 08/26/2015 at 02:12

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I’m the same way. I bought a C6 Z06 in college without borrowing any money on it. Of course, it meant lots of Natty Ice and Top Ramen, but it was worth it.

You have good taste. I’m a 911 guy too. But pro tip, wait 3 years before you pull the trigger. This Porsche bubble is lasting longer than everyone expected, but there’s no way it’s sustainable.

Flavien Vidal > Anon 08/26/2015 at 02:15

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After owning a C4 LT1 for a while, believe me, it’s not that bad. You can actually CHOOSE your gas consumption with a Corvette... You want to drive slow and relaxed, you’ll get 25mpg, no problem at all. You really want to save and avoid driving in the city, you’ll get 30mpg. You want to have fun and don’t care, you’ll get 7mpg.

And as far as I’m concerned, it would be a lot more economical to own this C6 as my daily driver is a tuned Turbo SA22C Rx7 from 1985.

My last tank of gas reached an average of 9mpg lol

Full Oppo review when I have time :)

Flavien Vidal > 911e46z06 08/26/2015 at 02:20

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Hum, I highly doubt it... I don’t see prices going down anytime soon and I really think it reached a time where good condition rust free 911 will only see their prices going up and up from now on... While on the other hand, the C6 prices will keep on getting lower and lower.

Also I can get a great deal on a fully restored 1979 SC with 40.000 miles on the clock, which helps when it comes to pulling the trigger :)

I think the C6 can wait and prices won’t go anywhere, while the 911 prices will keep on climbing.

911e46z06 > Flavien Vidal 08/26/2015 at 02:32

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Yeah man, C6s will be the same kind of bargains that C5s and C4s have turned into. I don’t see the 911s staying this crazy though. The really nice ones, sure, but good-condition and lower should start adjusting. But shit man, a ‘79 SC with only 40k, yeah, jump all over it.

Flavien Vidal > 911e46z06 08/26/2015 at 02:40

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Yeah I know... only in Japan can find such cars with such low mileage. Japanese are not big drivers at all...

I think on average an american drives 13000 miles per year while a Japanese drives 5000 miles. All that with Japanese loving their kei-cars or saloon cars as daily drivers and many owning a sports car or “funner” car as a week end car that they take care of insanely meticulously...

Japan is truly awesome for that. On the other hand, trying to sale a car with over 70000 miles is mission impossible. Export is pretty much your only option to get a bit of cash out of it...

TheD0k_2many toys 2little time > Flavien Vidal 08/26/2015 at 02:42

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thats shitty pic quality but those looke like HRE wheels on it. Worth at least 3k

Flavien Vidal > TheD0k_2many toys 2little time 08/26/2015 at 02:47

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Don’t know shit about wheels, but here it is... It’s a different logo...

911e46z06 > Flavien Vidal 08/26/2015 at 02:56

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Weird stuff man. I’m thinkin’ I may import a Delta Integrale soon. Maybe I should check out Japan instead of Europe.

Flavien Vidal > 911e46z06 08/26/2015 at 03:00

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;)

If you want one, let me know... you would not be desappointed.

911e46z06 > Flavien Vidal 08/26/2015 at 03:01

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That your business?

Flavien Vidal > 911e46z06 08/26/2015 at 03:07

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The other way around... Starting slowly at least ;)

Mostly a “hobby” for now...

you can read about my first 2 imports here and here

But I can manage shipping cars from Japan if needed. I won’t be able to take care of the importation though.

TheD0k_2many toys 2little time > Flavien Vidal 08/26/2015 at 03:11

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hmmm yea never mind the first pic made it look like the HRE logo

911e46z06 > Flavien Vidal 08/26/2015 at 03:11

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Well, I’ll check back in a couple years. I try to limit myself to one car a year. This year it’ll be an e9. Then next year, I’ll have to build another garage or buy a warehouse or something. Then it’ll be a big ass Caddy convertible. Then it’ll be Delta time.

Flavien Vidal > 911e46z06 08/26/2015 at 03:47

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E9s are nice, you won’t regret it... It might be next on my import list actually ;)

911e46z06 > Flavien Vidal 08/26/2015 at 03:54

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Yeah. Tryin’ to decide what flavor to get. I just dig the look of them, so I’m kind of leaning towards the plain ol’ 3.0 CS. Then I won’t be worried about keeping miles off it and picking up door dings and shit.

Tohru > Flavien Vidal 08/26/2015 at 03:59

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My dad had an ‘89 C4 and he averaged 28mpg per tank. His best was 34mpg on an Interstate run.

Tohru > Flavien Vidal 08/26/2015 at 04:00

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Let me get you in touch with my roommate. He’s working on getting a business going exporting from Japan.

Flavien Vidal > Tohru 08/26/2015 at 04:05

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Not really looking for exports right now (unless it’s for someone on Oppo) as the market is quite crowded already, but if he needs help with anything, I wouldn’t mind trying to help. I have good contacts in the UK to receive cars and eventually dispatching them in Europe. I don’t know much about the US, but I know a couple of importers through Oppo also...

Tohru > Flavien Vidal 08/26/2015 at 05:35

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He is talking about cars from US to Japan, then use the same container for cars from Japan to US. At least, I think he is. I’ll let you two hash it out.

Flavien Vidal > Tohru 08/26/2015 at 05:54

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The container does not “belong to you” or anything, so you don’t get to keep the same one on your way back. It will be another container. Also he will notice that shipping from US to Japan is a lot cheaper than the other way around due to the huge amount of american who buy Japanese cars but not many Japanese buying american cars... If he needs infos about the costs of unloading a container in a port for exemple, I can definitly help him out... I personnally use Nagoya port, I think Yokohama for exemple, is more expensive.

He also must not forget that importing a car from after 1973 requires quite a bit of “norm updating”, that usually add around 2500$ to the bill per car. Cars older than 1973 are exempt of this.

Unloading one container in Nagoya port costs about 160.000yen too + 8% of import taxes (you can lower the declared value though... They don’t check anything, not even the insurance lol).

Then you still have to pass the “shaken” which can be hard to deal with with older cars.

Not to forget as I mentioned, that if he is willing to import American cars into Japan, he really has to chose them carefully as many are really unwanted here... I’d suggest going for the old school stuff, like a Corvair for exmple that I think could sell well here... Newer stuff, not so much.

Where is he? Japan or US?

Tohru > Flavien Vidal 08/26/2015 at 11:27

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He’s in the US but travels to Japan

Dogapult > Flavien Vidal 08/26/2015 at 11:31

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I’m in the US. But there’s a bit more to it than that. contact me at dogapult@gmail.com please.