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Real price: should we believe the current prices for cars from Japan?

  • October 24, 2023
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The ruble exchange rate strongly suggests that cars will not become cheaper worldwide in the near future. And even LADA, which also depends on imported components. At this

The ruble exchange rate strongly suggests that cars will not become cheaper worldwide in the near future. And even LADA, which also depends on imported components. At this intriguing moment, from another ‘iron’ comes a story about a cheap and attractive, almost new foreign car from Japan. The prize beckons! But behind the bright cover lies a bitter filling.

In 2022, used cars from the Land of the Rising Sun, as once in the 1990s, massively conquered both the market and the minds of car owners: for the price of a Zhiguli you could buy a decent car of genuine Japanese quality with a small mileage and never seen a Russian road, no Russian road salt. Needless to say, against this background, the steering wheel in the glove compartment lost its ugliness, even for those who had never driven with right-hand drive?

Time has changed – the freebie is over. The ruble exchange rate suddenly returned to its usual position and the once humane price tags did not rise, but soared. The deal to buy a used Japanese car looks not only attractive, but also relevant: the price difference with a left-hand drive car has disappeared. But in 2022, an incredible number of “traders” appeared on the market, making good money from the purchase, customs clearance and delivery of secondary samurai goods, and they did not want to miss theirs.

So, offers again appeared on message boards, proposing either to pick up a car at the indicated price, or to believe that the same car was about to arrive, and that it was worth buying now, since it touching Russian soil with at least one of the four wheels would greatly increase its cost. But how much will the car actually cost? The AvtoVzglyad portal calculated the actual price and compared it with the “hot offer”.

So we have a request with the following data: Suzuki Jimny 2019 – 2020, new generation, three years, so that customs clearance is the most profitable, automatic transmission, engine capacity 0.7 liters, all-wheel drive, rich equipment. We send it to two offices for calculation: a “discount” office from a randomly selected advertisement and to acquaintances with whom we have already dealt.

The unknown ‘trader’ enters into correspondence with trump cards: such a car is about to cross the border, a ship is plowing through the endless surface of the water, a mother-in-law is at customs and a matchmaker is in the design. We’ll make a deal for only a million rubles, and you’ll get the car in two months. But it would be necessary to pay a deposit, at least fifty thousand, because the demand is high and the “coil” is only one.

Among the documents – an agreement of intent, which is a document only visually. Moreover, “consulting services” are described in black and white, which, amazingly enough, cost the same fifty thousand rubles. The price of the car is indicated in it, but only at the Japanese auction. And even in yen, which is not very legal according to Russian law. Neither logistics, nor customs clearance services, nor various kinds of “extras” such as installing the “ERA-GLONASS” button, not even recycling fees – nothing. Model, year, price in Japan, consulting services – everything.

The second seller, burdened by a personal acquaintance with the buyer, was much more cynical: the actual final cost of the car, attention, in Vladivostok, to which you need to add about 150,000 rubles for the trip by car transporter to Moscow, amounted to 1,750. 000 rubles. The waiting time in the capital is 4 months. The difference is in the color and mileage, with the second option it was 4,500 km less. Needless to say, it’s not the mileage that’s the problem?

We will not describe the development of events according to the first scenario, because of the poverty we have not gone through, but between the lines the following prospects can be read: day after day the price will rise, leaving the same bar of prosperity will achieve and exceed. 1,750,000 rubles ‘plus delivery’, or a welcome greeting. At first, the “manager” will suddenly “tighten the screws”, and the demand to return the “fifty kopecks” will clash with the prescribed “consultancy services”. In court, if it comes down to it, they will show both the correspondence and a printout of telephone conversations: the services were provided, the customer himself wanted to terminate the contract. What questions may there be?

Looking at tempting advertisements, flattering yourself with the hope of a miracle, sometimes you have to tear yourself away from the screen and look outside. Sweet flattery and phenomenal play on the most tender strings of the soul, or what else can we call the state of the family budget, have long become a fertile ground for fraud and deceit. Free cheese is only in a mousetrap, and a large purchase in such a difficult time will certainly cost a lot of money.

Real advice for residents of the central zone: if the desire to save money persists, the best option is a trip to Vladivostok or Novosibirsk. Independent selection based on availability, negotiation, which no one canceled, and independent transportation to your destination cover both the price of tickets and the desire to save. No other options are visible.

Photo from the portal “AvtoVzglyad”.
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In 2022, used cars from the Land of the Rising Sun, as once in the 1990s, massively conquered both the market and the minds of car owners: for the price of a Zhiguli you could buy a decent car of genuine Japanese quality with a small mileage and never seen a Russian road, no Russian road salt. Needless to say, against this background, the steering wheel in the glove compartment lost its ugliness, even for those who had never driven with right-hand drive?

Time has changed – the freebie is over. The ruble exchange rate suddenly returned to its usual position and the once humane price tags did not rise, but soared. The deal to buy a used Japanese car looks not only attractive, but also relevant: the price difference with a left-hand drive car has disappeared. But in 2022, an incredible number of “traders” appeared on the market, making good money from the purchase, customs clearance and delivery of secondary samurai goods, and they did not want to miss theirs.

So, offers again appeared on message boards, proposing either to pick up a car at the indicated price, or to believe that the same car was about to arrive, and that it was worth buying now, since it touching Russian soil with at least one of the four wheels would greatly increase its cost. But how much will the car actually cost? The AvtoVzglyad portal calculated the actual price and compared it with the “hot offer”.

So we have a request with the following data: Suzuki Jimny 2019 – 2020, new generation, three years, so that customs clearance is the most profitable, automatic transmission, engine capacity 0.7 liters, all-wheel drive, rich equipment. We send it to two offices for calculation: a “discount” office from a randomly selected advertisement and to acquaintances with whom we have already dealt.

The unknown ‘trader’ enters into correspondence with trump cards: such a car is about to cross the border, a ship is plowing through the endless surface of the water, a mother-in-law is at customs and a matchmaker is in the design. We’ll make a deal for only a million rubles, and you’ll get the car in two months. But it would be necessary to pay a deposit, at least fifty thousand, because the demand is high and the “coil” is only one.

Among the documents – an agreement of intent, which is a document only visually. Moreover, “consulting services” are described in black and white, which, amazingly enough, cost the same fifty thousand rubles. The price of the car is indicated in it, but only at the Japanese auction. And even in yen, which is not very legal according to Russian law. Neither logistics, nor customs clearance services, nor various kinds of “extras” such as installing the “ERA-GLONASS” button, not even recycling fees – nothing. Model, year, price in Japan, consulting services – everything.

The second seller, burdened by a personal acquaintance with the buyer, was much more cynical: the actual final cost of the car, attention, in Vladivostok, to which you need to add about 150,000 rubles for the trip by car transporter to Moscow, amounted to 1,750. 000 rubles. The waiting time in the capital is 4 months. The difference is in the color and mileage, with the second option it was 4,500 km less. Needless to say, it’s not the mileage that’s the problem?

We will not describe the development of events according to the first scenario, because of the poverty we have not gone through, but between the lines the following prospects can be read: day after day the price will rise, leaving the same bar of prosperity will achieve and exceed. 1,750,000 rubles ‘plus delivery’, or a welcome greeting. At first, the “manager” will suddenly “tighten the screws”, and the demand to return the “fifty kopecks” will clash with the prescribed “consultancy services”. In court, if it comes down to it, they will show both the correspondence and a printout of telephone conversations: the services were provided, the customer himself wanted to terminate the contract. What questions may there be?

Looking at tempting advertisements, flattering yourself with the hope of a miracle, sometimes you have to tear yourself away from the screen and look outside. Sweet flattery and phenomenal play on the most tender strings of the soul, or what else can we call the state of the family budget, have long become a fertile ground for fraud and deceit. Free cheese is only in a mousetrap, and a large purchase in such a difficult time will certainly cost a lot of money.

Real advice for residents of the central zone: if the desire to save money persists, the best option is a trip to Vladivostok or Novosibirsk. Independent selection based on availability, negotiation, which no one canceled, and independent transportation to your destination cover both the price of tickets and the desire to save. No other options are visible.

Source: Avto Vzglyad

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