Jim Lloyd - Possibly Bribed over 15 year rule?

[Guest]

Finaly people are working out why the rules changed.

Well.... It had to come to an end.

You know what? I think if everyone had emailed/hatemailed/snailmailed/telephoned as many importers/brokers as they could and tried to convince them to stop bringing in Trucks, campervans, four wheel drives, NA 300ZX's, Eurotrash, celsior's, S-cargo's - basically the sort of stuff that was never intended to come in under the rules - it would have had more impact  than any of the lobbying on DOTARS.

I mean basically for however long the debate was going, we had car enthusiasts writing dotars saying "let us keep bringing in the enthusiast/sporting models", and DOTARS presumably saw this and compared it to the importers bringing in all the other shitbox trucks, vans, landbruisers and so on - hmmmm....I wonder what was going to hold more weight the fact that people want some select cars, or that the import industry was exploiting the shit out of the loophole?

Its an own-goal.

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[funkymonkey]

ian... kudos to you for fighting the good fight. You have my vote for reversing the 15 year rule change, and I'm sure the company I work for would love for it to be reversed too. However personally I don't hold high hopes for your efforts simply due to the irrationality of your arguements.

"Wrong again. The whole office isn't responsible for it, the Minister is. The right channels is the Minister! And 'not much can be done' is wrong and a cop out."

I don't want to sit here and take your points apart one by one, but this is the only one I'll bother arguing with you. I'm not saying don't do anything... far from it. I just think that your approach of bombarding our beloved Minister with abuse emails and letters of dissent is not the right way to go about things. Lobby an independant to stand up for your beliefs. The minister is under attack from the Labour party over other issues, get in touch with them and discuss with them how they could use the "lack of vision" on the minister's part to gain an advantage in Parliament.

As for thinking the laws are written and passed by the Minister, just check who wrote the Media Release and FAQ's. A minister is a puppet of his department, and of his constituents.

Raving on like headless chooks saying "without the 15 year rule I will never be able to own an import again because I can't bring in the higly modified car of my dreams" is not gonna get you far.

To the person who asked about the JC Cosmo, it has been on the SEVS "ok to import into the country" list for a while now, and not just old 1990 models. Under SEVS you can bring in models from 1990 to 1996. However the RAWS that I've spoken to about them have basically told me there's not enough demand for them to warrant them applying for compliance. However with the 15 year rule coming to an end and the number of people who want the triple rotor power on the rise, this might be about to change. Again its a matter of getting behind the industry and making use of what is given to us.