Now let’s add one more argument to the above: the price. Genuine Japanese cars arrived in central Russia after the yen plunge, lower customs prices and expand the delivery location – more demand, more supply, better conditions – and impressed many. Judge yourself. The 2019 Honda Stepwgn Spada six full-size minibus is the most “new option for profitable customs clearance”. An example with a 150 hp 1.5 liter engine on a variator, with a 4bb auction mark (dust on the fender lining or a scratch on the glove box) and imported under full load and all with documents, costs 1,900. 000 rubles! And this is already in Moscow – that is, you can see, touch, drive.
And if you take out of the auction? Starting price – 700,000 yen (307,000 rubles), selling price – 1,531,000 yen (672,875 rubles), logistics to Vladivostok – 100,000 , logistics to Moscow – 100,000, SBCTS – 70,000, customs “clearance” – 1,500 cubes for 1.7 euros and 60 euros per ruble – 153,000 rubles and “plus” 35,000 rubles to the agent who wins the auction and completes all the details of the operation.
In total we have 1,130,875 “wooden”. Even though I missed something in the calculations, the price is fantastic. So maybe not LADA, but a comfortable and spacious, reliable and unpretentious, impressively equipped and simply beautiful, albeit right-hand drive, Japanese car?