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Now this is interesting.  You can see the hurricane that hit the world in 2008 reflected in the used car exports around the world from Japan. Starting from the largest numbers of exports to the least.  Used cars, vans and trucks. Russia 2008 563,369, 2009 53,180, 2010 105,478, 2011 110,791 Dubai  2008 98,204, 2009 89,966, 2010 86,625, 2011 80,712 Chili 2008 123,944, 2009 51,066, 2010 86,625, 2011 69,473 New Zealand 2008 59,090, 2009 57,427, 2010 68,952, 2011 68,091 South Africa 2008 47,797, 2009 55,304, 2010 66,575, 2011 67,458 Kenya 2008 40,546, 2009 44,699, 2010 50,749, 2011 39,248 Without giving the figures the… Continue reading Export results for the last 4 years

Checking some of our large competitors sites and I see one site claiming 150 auctions per week.  Well that is a bit of news to me.  I make it our objective to make every vehicle auction (including truck) available to our customers each week.   Let’s go through them and count them all. Mondays:  we… Continue reading How many auctions are there anyway?

Sometimes, usually at least once a month at Provide Cars Ltd, we have a customer who would like to re-auction his purchase for whatever reason.  Re-auctioning vehicles in the Japanese used car auctions should be avoided if at all possible.  Let me explain why. First the sellers fees in most auctions are a lot more expensive than… Continue reading Re-auction a car? To be avoided like the plague!

Provide Cars  is eying up a potential new aftermarket car that will end all “road rage” problems.  It is a wrangler jeep marketed by Chrysler with a few aftermarket adjustments. Take a look at the photo and picture yourself driving this car down to your local shopping center! Time to put to end all road… Continue reading A car to end all “road rage”

Silly question really, we all want to buy wholesale, the prices are cheaper, the product the same. Let’s restate that question. Would you like to buy directly from the Japanese used car auctions or would you like to buy from an exporters stock list? When you buy from an exporter involved in the price of… Continue reading Would you buy wholesale or retail?

We have the iPod, iMac, iTunes, iPhone…. but who is going to develop the first iCar?  Toyota, Nissan, Mitsubishi, Honda, Mazda, Isuzu (they have a slight advantage there, there name begins with the holy grail “i”), Daihatsu or are the honours going to go to a foreign auto-maker? Also, what sort of vehicle is it… Continue reading iCar, who is going to launch it, when will it be developed?

Apple does it, so why can’t Honda leak out bits of information about it’s up and coming concept cars to show at the Tokyo Motor Show later this month.   Honda is planning to bring a large number of concept and production vehicles (more than any other automaker) to the Tokyo Motor Show. One of… Continue reading Honda leaking out prints of EV ACX

The 2012 Nissan GTR model to be sold from this November in Japan will have a “TRACK PACK” version which will inherit the present Spec-V’s DNA plus the lightness of having no back seat for ideal trackday performances. By improving the Nissan GT-R’s engine efficiency, its fuel economy has been decreased from 12L to 11.8L/100… Continue reading 2012 Nissan GTR to have back seats removed!

Not so good news for Yanase, Japan’s representative for most foreign made models, the new car sales of foreign cars in Japan is down 26.7% compared to a year ago. Perhaps the only good news is that truck sales increased by 37.5%

SEMA is the US’s biggest tuner show.  3 remodelled or ‘tweaked’ iQs made their appearance. Remember the iQ?  It was the small car that retired granny would choose to economically do her shopping or visit her grand kids in.  Great modern piece of conservative creation by Toyota.  Here is the stock standard iQ found in… Continue reading Toyota iQ with some remodelling