Adelaide Motorshow

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There was this one.

Thanks Cubes....shame its a trailer queen (garden gnome) that'll never see bitumen with that rigid frame, rake & ape hangers.

I heard that this year's show was going to have some decent bikes in it.......I obviously heard wrong.

[savage GTR]

Spoke to one of the nissan guys , and asked if he could open the door so we could have a better look at the interior . NO was his answer. I said "By the way, I do own a GTR and asked if the car was from unley or lakeside nissan cause I know Leroy (owner of lakeside)." He said "it was a car doing just the promo's and it was a sydney car".

I also asked him what they were going to sell for and his reply was $138-$150 thou . I said you guys must think we are stupid when with all the hype surrounding the cars , you dont think that the interested party's dont know thta the car cost $88 thou in japan . What ? do you want to charge $50 thou for a warranty .? I then said that I already have heard of 5 different importers that have a car over here getting compliance already . "yes he said but we are taking them to court to prevent this." I then asked if they were bringing in a limited number of cars and he said " the cars will be brought in as long as nissan is building them and that it will be just another model of available car"

During the whole five minute conversation with him , my mate Dave was watching his facial expressions .

He couldn't help but laugh afterwards .

He said at first the guys face was like - Here we go just another punk , but when I seemed to know more than him , His face was like fuc# was have I got myself into , Sh#t I better not stuff up here.

Just wish I had taken the video recorder. LOL

To me nissan seem to think that they can take all of us for fools. They will be the fools though I think when the sales go stayle because all of us know that if we dont buy,they wont sell and they then dont bring over ,then we bring over and we save mega dollars . UP you nissan knobs australia

I have spoken to nissan about doing work on my 32GTR and even though it was a car they brought over , most want touch it because they dont have the brains to service it anyway. LOL

End of rant anyway

Beautiful car though ddddrrrrroooooooooooollllliiiiiinnnnnnggggggg

will se if i can post up some of my picks later

[Nightcrawler]

Spoke to one of the nissan guys .... the car cost $88 thou in japan . What ? do you want to charge $50 thou for a warranty .?

This is a common misconception - that a large part of the Aus mark-up is due to dealer delivery and warranty. Not true. When you purchase a GTR in Japan, you get 3 years FREE servicing, and Nissan have in fact built dozens of specialist workshops JUST to service and repair GTRs.

Unbloodylikely we will get anywhere near that level of service, OR free servicing included.

There is no way Nissan can stop parrallel importing, unless they release the GTR here before June 6 2009 in full volume, and both of those seem unlikely.

By that time, 2nd hand examples released in Dec 07 will be around in Japan for say $60k, which will be under $100k landed and complied here. If Nissan was reasonable and charged $100k-$110k for a brand new one, then I and hundred of others will happily pay it. If they are $150k, there is no way I will be forking out that much. Yes, in comparison to a Porsche or M3 even $150k is a bargain, but fact is if you have $150k to spend, I am sure most will stretch to $200 for a fully loaded M3, Merc or similar.

Nissan need to wake up and smell the world economy. As Savage said, we are not stupid, and won't be held for ransom, when they are exporting these for under $80k in America. They can do it here too.