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"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse) 08/17/2020 at 17:34 • Filed to: Toyota Altezza

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A thing that is not the usual silver, black or white.

Also, matched wheels front and rear are for those with no sense of adventure.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Cé hé sin 08/17/2020 at 18:25

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Don’t forget red or yellow ones

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > Cé hé sin 08/17/2020 at 21:00

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Those were the Lexus IS300 over here. What were they called in your neck of the woods?

Cé hé sin > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available 08/18/2020 at 05:19

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That particular one is I think a JDM import in which case it’d be a Toyota Altezza.

They were sold here as the IS200 and later the IS220d. Sales were slight until the diesel came along. If we got a -300 it would have sold in its tens.

Nowadays Lexus are exclusively hybrid here.

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > Cé hé sin 08/18/2020 at 09:17

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Huh, so they were sold there but this one is a JDM Toyota? It’s a little strange how Lexus never seemed to catch on over there. 

Cé hé sin > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available 08/18/2020 at 11:16

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The import of used Japanese cars was very much a thing once when a recession meant that new car sales here were low followed in due course by a shortage of secondhands. All manner of oddities turned up, including Lexuses badged as Toyotas because at the time the Lexus name wasn’t used in Japan.

A few are still sold. A dealer near me has a JDM Golf.

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > Cé hé sin 08/18/2020 at 12:24

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I don’t need to tell you how much I wish we had import laws like yours.

It’s astounding how lucrative the import of secondhand Japanese market used cars is around the world. They’re the defacto source for high quality used cars in countries where buying new would be very expensive or is unaffordable. The US is currently facing a shortage of used cars, but there is not economically feasible to import sufficiently similar cars from Canada and the rest have to be 25 years old. Therefore, you get used Toyotas commanding a price premium over a brand new one because there aren’t enough for people to buy.