As far as I can see, this one is actually with an affiliated dealer rather than being owned by Japan Auto Direct as stock.
Surely Japan Auto Direct will still want something out of it if they are involved in any way though, and that means less of the price is money in the
car......
Mr.F said:
The quoted FOB price is 1175000 yen and yesterday's Google exchange showed 161.31 yen to the £1.00.
Well, the FOB price in JPY is a little bit 'better' ( i.e. higher ) than the converted price you quoted, but any KGC10 on sale in Japan at less than 1.5 million JPY is at the bottom end of the scale and
for sure will need a lot of remedial work. Most of the specialists in Japan will ask upwards on 1.6 million JPY for
any decent 2HT C10 these days. There's no secret to it. They need to make their margin and they can't buy a decent one in, do a little work on it and sell it on for less than that. You
can buy privately for lower, but then you'd have to travel to view, transport the car to port and de-reg etc etc yourself, or pay an agent. Great risk in asking an agent to look at one of these, as nine times out of ten they won't know what they are looking at, what they should look out for, or what the car is supposed to be like anyway.
I honestly wouldn't use Google currency converter to give you an accurate real-world daily rate for an STG to JPY transfer either. You need to use the international trading rate, and
today that's 148 JPY. Actually, 161.31 Yen is closer to a 'buying' rate than a selling rate, and if you are paying a a Yen cost with STG you are going to need to
buy Yen with a weak STG........
Sorry to disagree with so much, but to my mind there is really
no point in buying a car at the bottom of the grade in Japan with the exchange rate as it is at the moment. The weak Pound just doesn't give you enough buying power......