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Post by widge on Nov 23, 2024 15:06:24 GMT
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Post by charliefarlie on Nov 23, 2024 16:12:37 GMT
Interesting prospect but would parts be available? I don’t consider nearly 100K to be low miles. For the year yes but it’s still a hundred K….
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Post by widge on Nov 23, 2024 16:56:00 GMT
Interesting prospect but would parts be available? I don’t consider nearly 100K to be low miles. For the year yes but it’s still a hundred K…. Oh I certainly wouldn't buy it, But I was wondering if it was a european model or not. |
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Post by philip42h on Nov 23, 2024 17:04:01 GMT
I keep an eye out on lhd cars in the UK in case something of interest comes up that might be of interest to bing over here, and spotted this. Did they ever do a 3l V6 in europe, or is it an import? Well it's definitely an import - it's sat in the UK and left-hand drive as you say. We currently have no information on the country of origin / first registration and it's entirely lacking in plates (in the photos). It's sat at the Export Yard / Wallace Kennels - they ship to West / East Africa, the Middle East or the Med. It doesn't sound as though it came from France! So, they very least you'd need to do is put it though the whole panoply of what you need to do to get an alien car on the road in France. It might be worth it but ...  |
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Post by widge on Nov 23, 2024 17:38:24 GMT
I keep an eye out on lhd cars in the UK in case something of interest comes up that might be of interest to bing over here, and spotted this. Did they ever do a 3l V6 in europe, or is it an import? Well it's definitely an import - it's sat in the UK and left-hand drive as you say. We currently have no information on the country of origin / first registration and it's entirely lacking in plates (in the photos). It's sat at the Export Yard / Wallace Kennels - they ship to West / East Africa, the Middle East or the Med. It doesn't sound as though it came from France! So, they very least you'd need to do is put it though the whole panoply of what you need to do to get an alien car on the road in France. It might be worth it but ... I am not realy interested in buying it, as far as importing anything into france, unless it was built for the EU and is as per factory spec and you can get a certificate of conformity then you have little or no chance, unless it is over 40 years old, then you can get it classed as a vehicle de collection, then the rules a more relaxed. |
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Post by unclebob on Nov 23, 2024 18:16:02 GMT
From memory the V6 model is longer, you can see it in the rear side quarter window being bigger 👍🏻👍🏻
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Post by charliefarlie on Nov 23, 2024 20:28:23 GMT
I think back in its day it might have been a nice addition to the range. Now it’s an old dinosaur….
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Post by davidwilson on Nov 24, 2024 14:54:07 GMT
I think it will have been from Japan or North America.
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Post by widge on Nov 24, 2024 17:18:17 GMT
I think it will have been from Japan or North America. Not Japan, They drive on the wrong side of the road the same as the UK🤣 |
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Post by charliefarlie on Nov 24, 2024 19:41:18 GMT
I think it will have been from Japan or North America. Not Japan, They drive on the wrong side of the road the same as the UK🤣 There’s a lot of imported cars from the Japanese domestic market ( Referred to as JDM ) cars that are brought in because they are usually higher spec than we get here plus there’s no salt used over there. They have little or no rustproofing though but it leaves a clean slate for nut cases like me to crawl under them and do the job. Plus as you rightly say they’re RHD 👍👍 |
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Post by widge on Nov 24, 2024 20:37:55 GMT
Not Japan, They drive on the wrong side of the road the same as the UK🤣 There’s a lot of imported cars from the Japanese domestic market ( Referred to as JDM ) cars that are brought in because they are usually higher spec than we get here plus there’s no salt used over there. They have little or no rustproofing though but it leaves a clean slate for nut cases like me to crawl under them and do the job. Plus as you rightly say they’re RHD 👍👍 We did look at getting a jap import 4Runner when we first planned moving to france, luckily we didn't as no chance of getting it re-registered without loads of work, no chance of a COC so it would have to be fully inspected at a test center, first point of failure would be all the glass, although probably exactly the same as the European model, it would fail becouse no European standards mark etched into them. Probably another 20+ other points after that, all too expensive to change. |
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Post by davidwilson on Nov 25, 2024 20:28:04 GMT
I think it will have been from Japan or North America. Not Japan, They drive on the wrong side of the road the same as the UK🤣 I meant built in Japan for the export market. One of my sons lives in Japan and does indeed drive on the same side of the road as in the UK. |
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