So, i was browsing tough my local car magazine..

"Aya, Almost Has A Cosmo With Toyota Engine Owned by a BMW." (aya-yu) 02/25/2014 at 01:51 • Filed to: None

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And notice something odd. The Evo X sold in in Indonesia for 125k. But the A45 AMG is 20k cheaper. But the Impreza is 40k cheaper than A45 AMG. And miata is 1k cheaper than Impreza.
So, now i'm having a hard time which one to buy if i had 150k imaginary money. Because you can't get the Uber-Saloon like the M3 or C63, because it's 175k. Plus Evo is mega expensive. God car prices in my country is expensive.

MtrRider > Aya, Almost Has A Cosmo With Toyota Engine Owned by a BMW. 02/25/2014 at 02:32

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My reaction to Indonesian car prices

saabstory | fixes bikes, breaks cars > Aya, Almost Has A Cosmo With Toyota Engine Owned by a BMW. 02/25/2014 at 02:59

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Can we stop for a second and just think about how crazy it is that I can know about your specific Indonesian car price complaints from Seattle?! THAT'S INSANE. Also, YOUR CAR PRICES ARE INSANE.

Aya, Almost Has A Cosmo With Toyota Engine Owned by a BMW. > MtrRider 02/25/2014 at 03:02

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Yeah.

Good thing we're allowed to import any car that we want, as long as you can afford it.

MtrRider > Aya, Almost Has A Cosmo With Toyota Engine Owned by a BMW. 02/25/2014 at 03:11

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How much of that is tax? What would stop you from buying a car from another place and importing it. We have lots of cheap horsepower in the US we could send you.

Aya, Almost Has A Cosmo With Toyota Engine Owned by a BMW. > MtrRider 02/25/2014 at 03:23

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Well, it's 150% for import alone.

Altough you can do 2 shady operation:
Register the car as a Truck (my friend owns an E46 M3 registered as a truck), or import the car as a kits, assembly them in here, and register the car as a kit car. Both two ways is how you avoid the massive tax.

Squid > Aya, Almost Has A Cosmo With Toyota Engine Owned by a BMW. 02/25/2014 at 03:30

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I'd assume the "kit" cars is how you get the front and rear clips of cars welded together. . .

Aya, Almost Has A Cosmo With Toyota Engine Owned by a BMW. > Squid 02/25/2014 at 03:35

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No.
We bought a car from japan, disassembled that thing there, ship that parts to a shop, build the car again, and that's it.

Just like caterham where you can assembly your own car. Except the car in question usually some JDM like Mine's GTR or NSX Type R.

Squid > Aya, Almost Has A Cosmo With Toyota Engine Owned by a BMW. 02/25/2014 at 03:40

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I was trying to make a joke. It seems like a reasonable way to go about avoiding the tax as long as the shop knows what it is doing and doesn't cut corners on assembly. I guess you can think of it like a restoration.

MtrRider > Aya, Almost Has A Cosmo With Toyota Engine Owned by a BMW. 02/25/2014 at 03:52

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Both good options. Chrysler classified the PT Cruiser as a truck for similar reasons.

Krieger (@FSKrieger22) > Squid 02/25/2014 at 07:46

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Not always. The more common "kereta potong" in Malaysia are due to some brilliant person thinking that his totalled car is perfectly fixable with the framework of another totalled car. Road legality? Well, I'd be more worried about the welds failing...

Krieger (@FSKrieger22) > saabstory | fixes bikes, breaks cars 02/25/2014 at 07:47

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Welcome to South East Asia. It's not stopped the roads from becoming packed solid with cars, though...