No More Legal Skyline Imports For Usa?

[noise]

stumbled accross this.

http://www.autoblog.com/2006/03/20/report-...wner-jailed-on/

The only Skyline that Nanahoshi Hiroaki appears likely to see for a while is the one through the window of his Los Angeles County jail cell. The owner of Motorex, America's only importer of the Nissan Skyline GT-R, is reportedly being held on $1 million dollars bail on a litany of charges ranging from financial malfeasance issues to assault with a deadly weapon and attempted kidnapping.

The future of R32-R34 Skylines in the U.S. beyond those already imported remains to be seen, but according to the Nissan/Infiniti Car Owners Club (NICO), Motorex's facilities have been forcibly closed due to their failure to pay rent.

[Mr. Oizo]

that was a while ago

[LBR33]

i can understand why they went broke with the compliance prices they were charging

[sh@un]

Move to the U.S and start an import compliance biz

No market competition

[**JaR**]

lol pwn the market hard.

[raz0r$harP.UK]

Import approval was rescinded for all Skylines a while ago in the US bar post-1996 R33 GTRs (or thereabouts, I made a post about this in Imports already)

[sh@un]

So you can get a 97-98 model GT-R these days if you live stateside, but nothing else as a grey import? Could be worse.

[raz0r$harP.UK]

Well no you can't get anything with Motorex gone, as they were the only one approved.

[TracidTrax]

well too bad for the yanks, i guess they would have to settle for their vette's and vipers

Edited May 2, 2006 by TracidTrax

[CONRAD]

...and Supra's

[racsov500]

personally, I think its fantastic.

imagine how much the cars that got in are worth! or did they have to be destroyed

[MK2]

The owner of Motorex, America's only importer of the Nissan Skyline GT-R, is reportedly being held on $1 million dollars bail on a litany of charges ranging from financial malfeasance issues to assault with a deadly weapon and attempted kidnapping.

This makes him different to most 2nd hand car salesmen how?