Im on the making money from RAWS and I agree with Ian
Raws/Sevs has nothing to do with safety or quality , it fails miserably in both those aspects because its so poorly implemented , designed and regulated .
The whole scheme is designed to keep imports out of australia and provide an unfair advantage to uncompetitive local industries . Its market protectionism in its purest form at the expense of the consumer.
One simple change I would like to see to sevs is once a manufacturer stops full volume importation of a car that car becomes eligible for low volume importation across the whole manufactured time range . This means that nissan can bring in R35 , make their money , then when its over we can bring them in as private consumers. Its still not ideal but it would open up lots more cars for the consumer and still give local full volume importers a chance to make their profits.
at the end of the day Specialist Enthusiast Vehicle Scheme was designed to give the australian consumer access to cars they were being denied either totally , or partially because of high prices , low specs and limited volumes on some cars . if it doesnt allow at its most basic level the consumer access to these specialist enthusiast vehicles it is failing its primary goal
if nissan only bring a small number of reduced spec extremely high markup r35s then thats a direct example of the consumer being worse off and sevs failing to provide a viable channel for the consumer to acquire the car