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Postby Superintendent Chalmers » Tue Apr 27, 2010 11:09 pm

Don't know about new cars, but before 2003 when the government started raising the prices of imported cars from Japan, the colour white was always a few thousand dollars cheaper to import - Skylines, Supras, soarers were all cheaper. Mind you, some of the 90's sports cars look pretty ordinary in white - completely different to the newest models of performance cars.

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Postby minimumtrade » Wed Apr 28, 2010 11:20 pm

Superintendent Chalmers wrote:Don't know about new cars, but before 2003 when the government started raising the prices of imported cars from Japan, the colour white was always a few thousand dollars cheaper to import - Skylines, Supras, soarers were all cheaper. Mind you, some of the 90's sports cars look pretty ordinary in white - completely different to the newest models of performance cars.


dude thats because pre-2003 was prior to the iPod mania.

Only then did white become fashionable.

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Postby squala » Thu Apr 29, 2010 9:43 pm

I'm currently leaning towards not getting the hail-damaged one. I've decided 10K is not enough a discount as opposed to all cons behind such a vehicle. A demo is definitely a better choice, a few grand more but no need to fix the body.

I might as well wait for EOFY and see what they could offer.
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Postby El-Diablo » Sat Oct 09, 2010 3:28 pm

I paid $37600 on the road for my 2010 Ralliart 5 weeks ago at Frankston Mitsubishi. It was sold as a demo with 10 kilometre delivery miles on it.

the only people who drove it were the factory, the delivery driver and my test drive.

They are worth checking out as the sales person told me they sell them quite regularly that way.

I was about to pay $41,000 on the road was on my way to test drive and forgot the dealer address so looked it back up on carsales. Found the FM one drove straight there bought it straight after test drive.

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Postby liam92 » Sat Oct 09, 2010 5:55 pm

I recently got offered 12k for my high k's VR-X.

if they gave you the hail damaged car for sub 30k it would be interesting but its hardly worth it otherwise to have a status of "writeoff"

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Postby El-Diablo » Sat Oct 09, 2010 7:09 pm

there are also big issues with registering hail damaged cars. If they are insurance write-offs they need to be re certified in some states to stop re-birthing.

People have been caught out and left waiting months to get them re-registered.

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Postby mr_evo » Sun Oct 10, 2010 3:22 pm

I wouldn't touch a hail damaged car, not worth the worry with it. Just get a demo or really push hard on what price you will be happy with then go for it.

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Postby Nick07 » Sun Oct 10, 2010 4:53 pm

I got a hail damaged es from the Perth auctions and paid less than half the market price for the car. It's silver so the dents aren't easily spotted.

As for licensing it, all it involved was taking it over the pits and the inspection was completed in less than 5 minutes.

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Postby El-Diablo » Sun Oct 10, 2010 4:55 pm

White cars are the standard color used to make up numbers when sales don't match production estimates.

This is because white cars are the highest proportion of fleet vehicles and can potentially be turned into fleet sales at a later point.

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Postby M@verik » Sun Oct 10, 2010 8:47 pm

Fixing hail damage is rather cheap. Why not just do that?
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Postby liam92 » Sun Oct 10, 2010 10:07 pm

The car is still classed as a writeoff for resale purposes, even if it was hail or not I know as a buyer (later one, once the cars been cleaned up) I would walk

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Postby M@verik » Thu Oct 14, 2010 4:36 pm

liam92 wrote:The car is still classed as a writeoff for resale purposes, even if it was hail or not I know as a buyer (later one, once the cars been cleaned up) I would walk


classed as a write off after just hail? That is ludicrous. Normally to class it as a write off, the car should have sustained enough damage to warrant at least 50% of its value in repair costs.
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Postby liam92 » Thu Oct 14, 2010 4:46 pm

All of the perth hail storm cars were given write off status, repairable but still writeoffs.

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Postby spunkybob » Fri Oct 15, 2010 8:49 am

I wouldn't buy a ralliart... extra performance vs useless economy isn't worth it.

If you take 2.4lt with intake and full zorst with ECU tune should put out 150-160kw @ engine v's 177 from (stock) RA.
Factor in the AWD power train and your about the same speed.

Food for thought.

But the AWD system is nice though..... and having turbo..... and you have a better platform to make it go faster.
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Postby jerryme » Fri Dec 03, 2010 9:09 pm

I bought a 2008 VR for $13000 with hail damage. Had 3000kms on it :D


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