sinkas wrote:

Right the situation is:
Japs buy new cars regularly and the japanese government supports this
behaviour by including 2-5 years registration and insurace in the purchase
price of a new car. At the end of this time the car must be inspected by a
totallitarian CARB-like institution, only problem is that they try to
replace so amny things on the car its ridiculous. IE a new set of Advan
street legal race rubber, and they send the car back with a 4 of the tires
"originally optioned on the car". IE it cost a shitload at the end of the
inspection. Typically repaced are: Tyres, regardless of condition:Brake pads
and disc, cat converters and mufflers, all filters etc. There is no actaul
emmissions test as far as I know.

Finally large companies give their employees large bonuses at the end of the
year, and often this is used to buy a new car, I believe that  there is also
tax benefits if they do spend ita ll at once..?

Finally people need to have a proof of a place to park thier cars, so most
familys only have one car, as Japan has a severe land shortage, so once they
get a new car, if its not  a rare or expensive one or all modded out, then
its a scrappeer, it ends up in Yankee and Aussie high performance importers
yards, ready to make something go too fast.
Aut5ralia has literally hundreds of early rotaries with 13Bturbo conversion,
this also is the reason for our develpment of such brilliant EFI systems.
MOTEC, Wolf, HALTECH

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