Importing an RX7 - carsensor.net

[L18M]

admittedly i\'ve not kept abreast of the new IVA stuff, but according to the DVLA website it does appear this simple!! My apologies - my brain is throwing out a comment along the lines of the later ones cannot pass emission tests and thus can\'t get conformity certificates, which was why they stopped importing them??

could well be.
cant remember off the top of my head but wasn\'t it 2001 or 2004 where they changed the emissions brackets etc but then its only this year that they have gone really strict hence no more rx8?

i guess you can always use the ethanol on near empty tank trick when they do the tests? lol

[trotter]

could well be.
cant remember off the top of my head but wasn\'t it 2001 or 2004 where they changed the emissions brackets etc but then its only this year that they have gone really strict hence no more rx8?

i guess you can always use the ethanol on near empty tank trick when they do the tests? lol

or ye olde put-the-sensor-up-the-back-of-the-mondeo-round-the-corner jobbie.... hehe

[Shaq]

Yeah, I\'ve read mixed reviews of bonsaicars. OK a couple of years back, but turned evil recently.

As far as what I\'m looking for, I\'m after a pristine stock or good slightly modified (non-sequential, maybe single turbo) car, but with a standard body, and the timescale hinges on how long my new job takes to get off the ground.

Examples of my ideal car are:
http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/1844775.htm
Just looks so perfect, and I love the blue.

Or this one. Especially this one:
http://www.mazdarotaryclub.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50564
I showed up just a bit too late for this one. I would have had it at the time as well, cos I was feeling flush. Yeah, I know it\'s a bit more than "lightly modified", but it\'s just about the nicest RX7 I\'ve ever seen.

Hi,

I know what you are saying about finding a FD i myself looked at several including that blue one on the pistonheads link! Which I cannot recommend: (

You will find one eventually after a year of looking and even getting flights to Newcastle i found mine, a stock UK spec FD

Good luck with your search.

shaQ

[Bulla]

You could try Miguel at Newera they always seem to source good clean examples.

[slideordie]

Having been unable to source an FD to suit my specification in the UK for almost a year now (Vintage red, 1999+, sub 60k km, stock body) I have had to turn to importing.  As many have pointed out, if you only plan to keep the car for a year or two and sell it on, you\'re going to lose a heck of a lot of money on it.  I am purchasing with a view to keeping the car for certainly the next 5-10 years anyway, if not the rest of my life, so I\'m not overly bothered with the exchange rate. It\'s going to take a very, very long time to return to the levels it was at a couple of years ago, and I\'ve waited 10 years already to be in a position to make a commitment to a second car and I don\'t fancy waiting the same again on the exchange rate!

3 months of scouring auctions has proved fruitless so far, but I\'ll find one eventually. I\'m going through DCY Europe who have been extremely attentive to my needs and if the car doesn\'t meet my expectations when it arrives, I\'ll be refunded in full for the 50% I have to pay upfront. Hopefully it doesn\'t come to that tho!