如题。
对本地车行肯定是冲击很大，但各种税算下来合适吗？
Finding your car has been stolen, packed in a container, and shipped to Australia – where you've shelled out good money for it – will come as unwelcome news.
But worse still, you may also be told that your car has been repossessed, leaving you out of pocket to the tune of possibly hundreds of thousands of dollars.
It's not only a very real possibility, warns David McCarthy of Mercedes-Benz Australia, it has already happened. McCarthy, Senior Manager for Public Relations, Product and Corporate Communications for the prestige importer, spoke with motoring.com.au earlier in the week, concerning an impending government decision to act on recommendations by the Productivity Commission to lift restrictions on used-car importation. More recently, the federal government has tacitly supported the idea.
"Next week, this issue goes to Cabinet," McCarthy explained. "I don't know what the recommendation's going to be... but there's an issue that really concerns me.
"If [a buyer] buys that vehicle in Australia... he has recourse if the vehicle is stolen, if the vehicle has finance on it, if it's been involved in a serious accident – say it's two cars made into one.
"You have protection under consumer law."
Should the government open the floodgates for grey imports, McCarthy believes consumers will not have the benefit of the consumer protection so readily taken for granted when buying a car from within the local market.
"What protection is the minister, the government, going to implement, to protect consumers?" he asked.
The Benz spokesman is aware that the repossession industry frequently deals with high-end exotics stolen overseas and rebirthed in Australia as grey imports. These cars can be repossessed here, despite the latest 'owner' having purchased the car in good faith. And the first the owner may be aware there's a problem will likely be when he or she walks out the front door to find the car being removed on the back of a tray truck.
McCarthy says that standard procedure for the repossession industry is to remove the car without necessarily letting the owner know in advance, since the owner will understandably make every effort to prevent repossession.
"Three months, four months down the track, there's a knock on their door. They look out, and there's their car on the back of a 'flat-top'. Guy gives you these papers and says: 'Sorry, I'm taking this car; it was actually stolen in Islington in London seven months ago. Here's the VIN number, it all matches up; I've taken possession of the vehicle. Goodbye.'"
If you're lucky, McCarthy says, the repo man may let you remove your personal possessions before the car is taken away. They'll likely clamp the wheel before letting you anywhere near the car again, however.
McCarthy admits this would be a last resort for a finance company or a former owner, but in the case of an exotic car worth big bucks, the legal hoops would be worth jumping through – even if the car is presently in a completely different jurisdiction.
"Is it going to be worthwhile for a $10,000 Corolla? Of course not...
"Is it going to be worthwhile for a $250,000 or $400,000 car? Absolutely..."
McCarthy doesn't contend that someone buying a Ferrari worth $150,000 for $68,000 from a UK vendor necessarily 'knows' that the car is hot or the owner has defaulted on the lease repayments; sometimes it's simply too hard to determine whether the car is subject to an encumbrance overseas or has been stolen before being shipped to Australia.
Nevertheless, it remains a serious risk for grey importer buyers – and it's just one of the risks posed by easing grey import restrictions, McCarthy says.
Picture courtesy of Tim Felce/Wikimedia Commons
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汇率这么低恐怕得搁浅了
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手续麻烦吗？
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现在也能，那种老爷车，好像是8几年以前的吧
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是说的新车可以。
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对买丰田的无任何意义
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关注
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有很多保姆车就是丰田家出的 现在只有日本有
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有啊 可以买皇冠了
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麻烦吗
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如何办手续？
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去买美国的房车，太便宜了
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买辆二手房车，非常便宜，放家里，出去玩太方便了
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哈哈~可以去进口Honda S660了
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本来就可以的呀。但是要到rta搞一张车辆符合澳州标准的证很废时、废钱。
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你让买prado kakadu 的花一样的钱买个保姆车，还没cap service , 保险还贵，坏了没零件。 还不如买个奔驰v class 省心
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买丰田的看重的保养维修便宜， 没cap service, 保险贵，维修贵对丰田的目标用户没吸引力，除非是真爱
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开放了进口还不知道啥价了
这种进口要是有规模了 价格也就下来了
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进口容易，问题是本地的厂家保修认这车吗？
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买丰田就为了省心省钱，你知道进个车有多繁吗？ 有这时间这个闲心有这钱的不会去进普通日用车的。 这个政策唯一影响的是豪车市场。 所以出来反对的都是奔驰之类的厂商。 你有见toyota出来说话吗？
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日本的凌志运到这里要多少钱啊？
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可惜美帝是左舵，否则去美帝买高端豪车太便宜了。
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有相关报道么？
最近坐了alphard，还是很有特点的
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早就可以自己私人进口啊
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你这么急干啥 有人要就自然有人去搞
现在二手这种车都有人做了 全新的能进口肯定会有市场 大不大不好说
至于豪华车这块 估计要哀鸿遍野了 现在的dealer利太厚了
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真心急啊，快点实施， 立马搞个DBS 过来
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记得以前日本人就说过，新西兰就是他们倾倒二手垃圾的地方
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皇冠好像一直都可以啊
只是年份的問題 問題是買那麼舊的 感覺不值
653/00 Toyota Crown MA 1999/01/01 - 2003/12/31
652/00 Toyota Crown Majesta MA 1999/01/01 - 2004/12/31
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Alphard 可以進阿
http://www.raws.com.au/SEVSRegC. ... ;fs_Page=12#results
658/02 Toyota Alphard Welcab MA 2008/01/01 - Current
643/03 Toyota Alphard Welcab MA 2002/01/01 - 2008/12/31
644/02 Toyota Alphard Welcab MA 2002/01/01 - 2008/12/31
657/02 Toyota Alphard Welcab MA 2008/01/01 - Current
789/01 Toyota Alphard Welcab MA 2002/01/01 - 2012/12/31
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