Date:         Sat, 27 Dec 2008 07:16:03 +1300
Reply-To:     Andrew Grebneff <goose1047@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Andrew Grebneff <goose1047@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Toyota Previa "Westfalia" ??
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Actually, I'd be interested to know what the Canadian dealers are
doing for headlights; these are model-specific and were made only in
RHD.

Canadians are also being robbed by used-Japanese-importers; for a 1994
Sprinter Carib (sold in Canada as "Corolla" 4WD, and it IS part of the
Corolla range, as was the 1983-87 Carib sold in North America as a
"Tercel") the bottom line is $7000CD. This model goes for no more than
$2500NZ here... that's $1818CD, and is too old now for importers to
bother with... a 1996-2003 Carib or a 1997 4WD Corolla wagon sytarts
here at $7000NZ (5040CD).

A basic 2WD manual narrow-body 1993 Estima is selling there for
$13,000-odd CD. Here the same car is worth at most $5000NZ, and my
wife's floorshift-manual turbodiesel is probably only worth $3000 if
that.

Go figure. At least the used Japanese imports are rust-free... so long
as they are sourced from the southern parts of Japan!!