Right hand drive cars

[Wayne Maybury]

While I rarely ever see any right hand drive cars, I have seen 5 or 6 right hand drive tuners/ricers in the past week or so. Are the kids converting left hand drive Japanese cars to right hand drive? Also does anyone know why they are doing this?

Wayne

[DougD]

I believe Japanese home-market cars are RH drive. Maybe they're importing them, or maybe replicating some of the models not sold in the US? I know some of the more desirable (not to me, by the way) high-end Jap performance cars are not sold in the US. I could see the ricer kids trying to make theirs look like the unobtainable ones.....

[CobraEd]

so sad


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[LoBelly]

Originally Posted by DougD

I believe Japanese home-market cars are RH drive. Maybe they're importing them, or maybe replicating some of the models not sold in the US?.....

DougD has it.

We see this a lot in Australia as we're RH drive also. They are called 'grey imports' here - meaning no offical local support. Not such a big deal in the age of the internet.

LoBelly

[rustyBob]

I think they bring them through Mexico or a country up north of America ayh.

[stuartb]

They are importing them. A friend of mine imported a older toyota land cruiser from Aus. that is rh drive with a diesel engine, couldn't get those here.

[CobraEd]

How do they register them without cats & bumpers??


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