Mungo

You want to know why your cars are dangerous and illegal? Because they're way too fast for Fatty 2-Jags' new roads. The ability to accelerate and brake effectively is far more dangerous than a 40 year old Morris Minor held together by mud and rust doing 40 down the M1, obviously. And the motor industry lobby told Tony that all imported cars were stolen in the country of origin, so they must be illegal too.

Harrymattson

Has this program replaced that most excellent and usefull publication "Which", without which we couldn't possibly live, buy gadgets or owt that is ever so slightly technical?? Or am I talking complete bollocks??

Dave Thornton

The biggest mistake of the programme was to generalise. And the biggest problem in the motor industry regarding greys is misinformation. That's why I wrote a book about the subject.

Neil F

Mungo, are you serious with your reply or just messing?
All imports too fast? Are they serious?
Rapid as Scoobys/Skylines/Evos may be, there are still faster (in a straight line) Porsches, Ferraris and numerous other cars including the classic, thoroughly lethal AC Cobra which was and is a legal import.
Are they to be the subject of a "ban them, burn them" documentry?

Neil.

MattN

I have spoken to Mitsubishi and they can't give me the models of the cars that have inferior braking systems, well of course they won't I mean if it got back to the Japanese market that they were using unsafe brakes.......

mutant_matt

Chiark,

> [QUOTE]Originally posted by chiark:
Personal experience of hidden costs of an EU import UK spec MY00 with aircon, metallic paint:

The costs are not hidden are they? It's just that you need to do your homework if you are going to import as you get a different "package". I picked up my MY00 with Aircon, Sunroof, Quickshift, 17" Gold Alloys with P Zeros for £7000 less than UK price including ALL extra expenses! (which includes air/train/ferry fares, hotel costs, VAT/Registration costs and more, and a trip to Amsterdam with my other half for the weekend to check out the dealer and other stuff!!).

> The warranty length is the big one, and the warranty in the first year can be different too. The Dutch don't look kindly upon replacing anything consumable (break discs, clutches,...) under warranty which the UK wouldn't blink twice over.

The warranty is Pan-European and is the same (theoretically) wherever you go in Europe. IM have to uphold the warranty in the UK with exactly the same rules as other countries - it's doesn't matter where you get the car from, IM sorts it out as long as it was supplied in the EU by an official dealer. The second two years of the UK warranty are sold to the UK dealers by IM and just happen to be the same as the Subaru Pan-European 1st year warranty. I've found a good 3rd party warranty to cover me for the 2nd and 3rd year for £500. I have also since found out that my local dealer runs their own 2rd & 3rd year warranty for euro imports costing £200 per year.

There is no down side to importing in my opinion as long as you do your homework except that my Dutch dealer told me he wasn't going to be supplying the MY01 Turbo because it is too expensive in Holland so it would seem that that is one less place to buy them from.

Cheers,

Matt.

[This message has been edited by mutant_matt (edited 21 November 2000).]

Trout

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Transcript now posted - I have started a new thread to focus specifically on the Hard Cash Grey Import issue.

Mungo

NeilF

Just messing...
I should have put some on, or a load of a la Sunilp.
Hopefully you didn't think I was an eco-warrior lurking on Scoobynet?