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Nissan again showing off Esflow concept car
Nissan Esflow inside
Nissan again is taking the opportunity to show off its concept car (not in the auctions yet sorry) the Nissan Esflow. This is a double engined electric car with a RWD. Powered by laminated lithium-ion batteries. Each motor is designated to its own rear wheel, taking the Esflow from 0 to 50 in 5 quiet seconds with a range of 240kms on one charge.
The batteries are placed in the center of the Esflow just in front of the rear axle.
Nissan Esflow at the Tokyo Motor Show
Nissan Esflow at the Tokyo Motor Show
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Myanmar market opens to used Japanese cars?
The market that has been under tight military rule since 1962, has cracked it’s used car import door slightly open. Since the military generals declared democracy moves in January of this year, the frozen import laws have begun to melt.
Owners of old vehicles have been given the right to surrender their old car for the rights to import a car. The goal being to remove from the roads old Myanmar smoking polluters and bring in some cleaner higher quality vehicles. One of the major sources for these vehicles being the Japanese used car auctions.
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iCAR, who is going to launch it, when will it be developed?
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 going to be?
First of all, I am quite sure it will not be developed by the major automakers, so you will not see an iToyota or it’s potential “i” offspring (iPrius, iCamry, iLandcruiser etc), nor any iNissan (iGTR, iMaxima) etc. The Apple branding traditionally is more rebellious than to allow a typical car maker to take the iCar title, it would have to be some company or group more radical than that.
Also, the car itself would have to be more radical than just a hybrid or electrical car. It would need to be technology un-thought of by the major car companies. It needs to be greener than that. And although anything tagged with “i” tends to double its actual value, it still needs to be cheap enough to benefit the whole world, iCar needs to get out there to the whole world.
Well, it is still unknown who the iCar winner will be but if I had to award the iCar crown to anyone right now, it would probably be handed to the HHO specialists. A grass roots, (for some reason major car companies do not want to get involved (probably because you can apply the system to any vehicle on the roads at the moment and therefore doesn’t involve selling any “new cars”)) green development, birthed not out of potential profit but the real need to improve on our present status quo in automobile world.
That would also mean any car sold in the used car auctions in Japan, could also become your potential “iCar”, with a few cheap modifications.
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Tsunami used cars for sale?
We all saw the floods of the tsunami hitting all those cars and trucks. So where are these vehicles now? Could it be that they are being sold in the Japanese used car auctions? Could a vehicle that you buy be one of these?
Basically there are major barriers to companies slipping tsunami history used cars through the Japanese used car auction system.
The first is the inspectors in the auctions themselves. Basically Provide Cars only buys vehicles from the Japanese used car auctions. These auctions have a very strict inspectors report. The inspections are often extremely strict. I have seen inspectors removing front headlights to find out whether a car has had a crash repair history. Trying to hide tsunami history vehicles through these auctions without acknowledging it before hand on the auction sheet, would be a hard job. When the inspector realizes the car he is looking at is a tsunami history car the auction will take up the matter with the selling company. The selling company is risking their membership and reputation by not telling/acknowledging beforehand to the auction that these vehicles were tsunami history. The risk to the selling company is too great.
A selling company therefore has to acknowledge beforehand to the auction that this vehicle is “flood history” or in this case a “tsunami history” used car. It will then be delegated to the “no claim” area of the auction, if it has documentation to go with the vehicle. These vehicles sometimes have a single note “flood history” or something similar written on the auction sheet with no inspectors report to go with it. They are not being slipped through the auction but set aside to a no-claim part of the auction.
As a buyer you can buy peace.
It would be a totally different story buying from a dealers stock page however! There is no guarantee where that vehicle has come from. Now that is high risk!
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Stock sourcing. Where from? Perhaps the most important question.
I once spoke to a used car dealer in New Zealand. I asked where he was sourcing his stock (used cars) from. With his fears that I was a salesman trying to change his status quo, he quickly replied that he sourced his cars from one of the very large importers into New Zealand, at their stock yard in Auckland, New Zealand, and that he was very happy with the relationship, thank you very much! My next question was how sales were going. His reply was that sales were terrible. Something to do with the weather, or the downturn in New Zealand, or something (the moon perhaps, tides?).. He didn’t go the extra bit to connect the two questions together. Just perhaps he was sourcing his stock (used Japanese cars imported from Japan) from the wrong source.
Without naming companies let’s have a look at the source of this used car dealers stock. This large export company purchases these vehicles in Japan and then immediately makes them available on their homepage, at whatever price they like. If this car exporting company thinks their purchase was a bargain then they will sell it at a much larger margin in their own stock than they actually purchased it for. They are a large company and they need to do this to survive. Simple commissions are not enough for them in this down economy and they need to make that plus alpha as much as possible. Their goal is their profit and not the end users profit (in this case the New Zealand car dealer).
Let’s imagine this exporting company buys 50 cars a day for the New Zealand used car market (or any market). Of those 50 cars, there may be 10 cars that will sell very quickly, highly suited for the New Zealand market. Through much research they know their cars. They are like Google, they have they client orders, they can see information and capitalize on it. They sell these vehicles at higher margins to what they could be bought directly from the auctions, so the profit margin of the New Zealand used car dealer diminishes. Now we have 40 cars left. From these 40 cars, the better of these are bought in Japan by other New Zealand dealers. What is left for the exporting company’s stock yard in New Zealand? Boring, standard, plain, common vehicles that could sit in a dealers yard for a month or may be a year! Well why buy these used cars, they don’t seem to be good stock right?
Good question! The large car exporting company knows this weak side of their equation, so what do they do? They need some sort of incentive for their dealer network to buy these stock standard boring cars, that the public basically don’t want to buy. The incentive is credit. Because many dealers have gone belly up in New Zealand (and other markets), the New Zealand banks will not lend to them. They may have $500,000 worth of stock on their yards, but the New Zealand banks will not lend them a cent. The large car exporting company capitalizes on this and gives the New Zealand dealer a line of credit on the car they are selling …. can you see where the story goes? Can you see the stranglehold these large exporters exert on the weakened New Zealand car dealers? I also know that the large used car exporters from Japan also have their strong links to the New Zealand debt collecting companies. It is a no-win scenario for the New Zealand car dealers that you definitely don’t want to try to compete in.
So how can you win as a small car dealer in New Zealand or any other country facing a similar situation? Join us in the next blog for some great ideas.
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Mazda jumps on to the “Black Edition” bandwagon with its Roadster
The Euro-Focus has one, HUMMER has one, Mercedes has one, Porsche has a few of them, Nissan has one, so why shouldn’t Mazda have one too? Introducing the Mazda Roadster black-tuned edition. It went on sale in Japan this week. So why isn’t the car black? Perhaps it is just the roof that is going to be black? And it isn’t just any roof, it is a hard top roof, and not only that, it is a retractable hard top roof! That, according to Mazda, qualifies it for the black-tuned edition. Not enough you may think? OK, let’s throw in some black door mirrors, and some black 17inch alloy wheels (actually metallic grey 17inch alloy wheels, but closer to black than red right?). Not enough black you still think? OK, let’s go inside. How about black leather seats and a black leather steering wheel? No? Well the final touches by Mazda to make this Roadster RS RHT into the official Mazda Roadster black-tuned edition: give them three possible colors, “spirited green metallic”, “velocity red” and “crystal white pearl”. (Yes, no black version! But this is the black version?!).
Buy one new or get one in the auctions soon, again, near new is cheaper than new-new!
The black-tuned edition Roadster
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Skoda unveils new Volkswagen Up!- based Citigo
The re-badged Volkswagen Up! is called the Skoda Citigo. Choose from 2 1.0L three cylinder engines, one with 59 horsepower and the other with 74 horsepower and a top speed of 170kms/hr. May be not that fast but they are efficient, 23.83km/liter. Not as efficient as the Demio 13 SKYACTIV, but better than the RX-8!
You won’t see one of these appearing in the Japanese used car auctions any day soon as the car won’t appear in Europe until summer 2012.
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Mazda Face Lifts the Demio to produce the Mazda Demio 13 SKYACTIV
Mazda Demio 13 SKYACTIV
Mazda has face lifted the Mazda Demio, known elsewhere as the Mazda2 (find one in the Japanese used car auctions), as well as adding a little more economy into its 1.3L engine. By increasing the compression ratio to 14.0:1 and adding an intelligent start/stop system that requires less fuel to restart the combustion cycle, this 4 cylinder looks to be one of the most efficient vehicles to ever wear the Mazda badge. It may even take on the efficient hybrid cars, though it is not a hybrid itself. 30kms per liter is not bad.
Look forward to seeing some used Mazda Demio 13 SKYACTIVs in the Japanese Car Auctions soon!
Mazda Demio 13 SKYACTIV
Mazda Demio 13 SKYACTIV
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The T2000 to replace the RX-8 or perhaps the roadster?
Mazda has combined the magic of the power to weight ratio of the motorbike with its knowledge of the double and triple rotary engine. Unveiled recently, the T2000 (”Took 2000″ years to evolve) stunned audiences here at the local auctions with its lines, elegance and sign writing. Obviously, the other makers, Nissan, Toyota, and Honda are in a state of panic.
Took 2000 years to evolve
The Stunner
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Trucks made for export
This truck was made for export to any country in the world. After use in Japan, buyers from any country would want to purchase this truck, whether their country was left hand drive or right hand drive.
Made for export
Two happy buyers.
Let’s hope that these 2 happy buyers will still be happy once they start driving (hopefully in the same direction)
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