As you have already known and I have mentioned in my recent blog posts, renewal of some popular car models, like Landcruiser 200, Mark X Zio and GT-R, have launched and will be coming soon. Toyota also announced thier new product “Corolla Rumion,” Mitsubishi, eager to get thier trust back, launches new Lancer Evolution X. They are expecting that thier sales would be increasing with them, however, it is not clear so far.
Some people who are called “celeb” in Japan (please note: this does not mean real celebrity, everyone in Japan calls rich person “Celeb”) like high-grade car, especially, imported car like Mercedes, BMW, Ferrari etc. In Ginza and Roppongi, where rich people are gathering at night, we can see more imported cars than Japanese luxury cars like Toyota Celsior, President, Nissan Cima and so on. It is not unusual sceanary around those town today. All they can afford to buy expensive car but do not buy Japanese car because it is one of thier status to be appeal thier wealth. On the other hand, young people who likes car are tend to buy American car, not Japanese sports car. That’s why there are some American car magazines published here. Almost car owners do think mechanical techniques of car are not the matter when they choose their car, for them, the most important thing when they purchase is its exterior.

Then, do you know who the target of vehicle maker’s sales scheme is?
The answer, I suppose, is car maniacs in manhood. They are not young but can afford to buy car whatever they want. In thier youth days, they liked to buy the “middle-grade” passenger car which has 5 or more seater for thier family, but thier children have been getting growing and independence from parents, finally, some of them have been about age of retirement.
They do not have to spend thier earnings on education for children and can spend thier money on thier hobby!! If there are a lot of car maniacs among them, they are going to boost sales of new car.
Following object is one of reason why I think so, Nissan has already received rushing purchase offers of new GT-R (Official Website), launches on December 2007, unless they had announced all information of it yet. I heard its price would be at least 7,000,000Yen for standard model (actually, it would be possible to be about 8,000,000Yen!!). Who can buy such expensive car!? —Of course, rich person can. Moreover, car maniacs who addicted to old Skyline in the old days have been getting older and now are willing to buy new GT-R, always can’t take thier eye’s off it!!

I’m feeling young car maniacs is getting decreasing and they are tend to buy non-expensive car in Japan these days. Vehicle makers attempt to make various car matching thier interesting, however, it is not sure that have reached everyone’s mind…
And it is getting easier to buy high-quality used car now through appearing used car distribution like Japanese used car auctions which we buy cars for our customer when we export them.
But we should not forget that, we cannot buy used car without new car because used car was new car when it launched first. Decreasing of sales of new car is serious problem not only for car makers but also for us, used car dealer, in the future.

Toyota is still the best company in Japan. They succeeded to make strongest and loved car, finally, people all over the world love thier car. But in Japan, no one take Toyota car considering as special one, needless to say, it is ordinary for everybody. How an ironic it is!!

I would like to expect  the future of Japanese auto industory and Japanese people to love Japanese car…

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Japanese well-known makers always have developed a lot of vehicles and keep everone’s eyes on thier products. People who love cars did not used to regard the car as just vehicle, but as thier hobby, however, we cannot see this car boom any more here except for car maniacs still being.

Then, what car is well-sold in Japan now? The answer is “Kei car” which is the vehicle under 660cc.
According to a report of Japan Automobile Dealers Association, during last 6 month, the best-selling car in Japan was Suzuki “Wagon R.” I think you are surprised with this result.
I have mentioned people living around the big cities who can live without thier own cars thanks to the complicated transportation system, trains, subways and buses like net over the area. Moreover, there is few space to be enough to a lot of person can park…
On the other side, country side areas, car is one of the necessities of life, it is going to be one car for one person because we can say it is the only transportation for them. Supermarkets, convenience stores and even if BARs (of course, it is exhibited to drive when they drink!!), they have so much space for parking a lot. They have to get the driving license when they are 18 years old, and purchase car to go work, school and shopping. They must buy car…but car is not trivial expense for everyone. That’s why Kei car is the most popular for people and best-selling car! Makers have been improving thier products’ interior, exterior, equipments and driving functions not only for people in local side but also for people living in the big cities. Therefore, we can find many types of Kei Car, Daihatsu Move, Tanto, Mira, Honda Life, Suzuki Alto, Nissan Moco etc. everywhere even if we are in the big cities and in the country cities.

(Continued to my next blog)

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Today, as everyone knows, Japanese vehicle makers have expanded thier business day by day. We can see almost Japanese dealers the whole world. It’s not rare that you can buy Toyota car in your country, not from Japan, and there are some cars that we cannot get in Japan because of apprearance of international model like Japanese car with LHD.
I have mentioned that young people don’t own thier car these days in my last post yesterday, and it is true, it is getting decreasing the numbers of registrated car in Japan.
The reason why is that, I think, it is not only parking issue but also expensive taxes on owing car and few attractive cars for them recently. According to an article on one of Japanese famous newspapers last month, young people tend to spend thier weekend alone in thier house and save thier earning for thier future because Japanese Social Security System, especially Japanese public pension plan, will be about collasping due to many disgraceful affairs by officers of government. And one more reason I guess is that so many young people are gathering urban city, and there are the various available transportations even if we do not have car, so, there is no necessity for being owner of car near big cities.
Once in a time, owing car was in a sense that was status for everyone in Japan. After the World War II, in high growth between 1955 to 1975, population who eagers to buy and purchase thier own car has been getting increasing, in the time of ”Made is Japan” was not considered good quality then yet. Everyone in the world laughs at things manufactured in Japan and no one could imagine there would be so many Japanese vehicles everywhere around the world in their future days. Now, Japanese cars are loved by people living in different countries, continents and even opposite to Japan.
Japanese car company like Toyota, Nissan, Honda etc. have been no more locar companies in Japan getting global and multinational ones in 21st century for their brilliant sales. Toyota is the best company in Japan nowadays, still some of makers had to change thier sales strategy because of a few bad schandals and changes of laws about ecological regulation.  But totally almost Japanese car makers have been bigger and bigger year by year thanks to thier close mechanical progressings.

 (Continued on my next blog…)

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As I wrote in my last blog, new Nissan GT-R is coming this autumn (soon!). And I introduce 2 new cars, renewed Toyota Landcruiser 200 and Toyota Mark X, named “Mark X Zio.”

[Toyota Landcruiser 200]
First, Toyota Landcruiser 200 has undergone a model change, and has 4.7 litres V8 engine as well as its previous model Landcruiser 100, however, this model has also VVT-i, achieves its output 39kW upper than 100 model. And this new Landcruiser 200 has”Crawl Control” that can control engine and brakes to keep speed being low automatically when this car drives at, for example, off-road, steep rise in the road, sandy road and so on. This is the first car in the world which equips it originally. With this helpful system, all you have to pay attention when you drive on bad condition road is not to miss your steering operation!!
Those are why people call this newest Landcruiser “The King of 4WD.”

[Mark X Zio] 
Second, Toyota Mark X Zio was announced on 26th September.
Its concept is that it can not only be SEDAN but also be WAGON and MINIVAN, in other words, you can chenge its style whenever you want. This is like compact car but its capacity is 6 (maximum.) with luxual sophisticated interior/exterior styles and high-qualitied driving performance, Mark X Zio can attract to everybody who is thinking about buying new exciting car!!

(2 pictures are quoted from Yahoo! Japan Auto)

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Nissan Motor Co., Ltd launches new “GT-R” this autumn.

It is being admired for its driving performance and mechanical technology from domestic and foreign auto industories.
2 types of package will be available, one is normal, and another is high-power package, they estimate it can reach 450HP. Nissan has already done its test driving at foreign test courses, especially at circular course in Germany, it recorded the best performance compared with all cars in the market. Nissan is planning to inform the public, to focus it on as Nissan’s flag ship model and connect it with image up of them and thier products.

The previous model of GT-R had equipped its body based on Skyline, however, new GT-R has the original body. Therefore, new GT-R is distinguished from the latest Skyline, appered in the end of 2006, and no description of “Skyline” in the name of new GT-R.

We always have received many inquiries about Skyline and GT-R from the world. It usually takes a few month or so untill new model cars are lined up in Japanese auction market.
So…we can start suggesting and selling New-Used GT-R to you around the end of 2007 or the beginning of 2008.

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As people who have been dealer of mini trucks for ages, might have known, there have been exported mini trucks to U.S approximately a few times than last year.
Involving Auction market price has been dramatically increase, would not be able to provide cheap and high quality vehicles recent year.

Moreover, we have heard that traders in Japan have been including lately, and some exporters do container vanning without its knowledge and then get many troubles.

We have got NEWS from U.S about a lot of the inferior trader.
Feel free and inform us if you have any trouble between you and trader.
We are pleasure to give you an advice as possible

It needs special technique to van in container. And also vehicles should be clean, otherwise it will get trouble and loss in an immigration.
We are highly recommend not only the price, you choose trader, have lots of experience and trust totally to export to the U.S.

We ashamedly have experienced various troubles as well. so far.
Besides, we have got some complaints actually.
It was sometimes our fault, however, we are not only trying to faith and our best, but also never forget and repeat what we fail for the work so that we can get trust back from valued customers.

We will inform an example by email which is east to misunderstanding between us.

We are obligated to check:
Corrosion and sink
Important equipment maintenance
Any light and plastics should not be broken
Painting rust
Engine should be No smoke and strange sound
Tearing the Drive Shaft Boots
Coating underneath and chassis black

Things we are not to do Inspection before exporting:
Tire is tearing or not
Running out of Lamp
Radio condition (example; not be able to turn on/off)
Luster of Painting
Fixing no matter the little scratch of the color adjustment does not much 100 % .
Wheel stain
Little chaps any glass of vehicles. ( hit by stone)

Things it will occur after shipping no matter good condition.
No Rotating Engine well (Especially Mitsubishi one)
Clutch plate might be settled
Oil or radiator requid will leak as head gasket is getting weak and make an opening.
Car condition will be worse when it is changed Oil
Water will leak when it is changed Cooling water.
Out of Order the switch, car and Electronic parts.
Oil pressure kit, like Dump
Out of the Switch

We basically accept each seven vehicles for one container(40feet).

Here is our stock list below.

http://www.best-minitruck.com/japanese-minitrucks.html
All price in stock are FOB price (Free on Board).

It costs maximum approximately US$ 6,000.00 from Japan to domestic in
U.S.(to your address) Moreover, it will change the cost depends on the place you would to send.
It is getting cheaper of course as you keep contruct.
We would like you to understand that it is not cheaper from frist time.
Just from Japanese port to Long Beach California CY is about US$ 2,800

Our main shipping agent :
EGL Eagle Global Logistics Japan,Inc.
Nagoya, Japan
Phone : (81) 52-231-2211
Fax     : (81) 52-231-2285

Stock yard are in Nagoya (Japan) and Long beach (U.S) eventhough our company is in Tokyo.
Our agent in LA:
Name.: Mr. Jun Sawamura
Tel: 310-753-6568
jun@jtrading.net

They can handle all US import work and transportation work from Long Beach, California.
Now we can put normal 6 units of mini trucks and one mini van in 40ft container.
Please contact us through our website!!

(quotation from Yahoo!Japan)

A big typoon, named FITOW is approaching to Japan now.

We had cool weather these days…it is very nice for us because it was too hot this summer in Japan!! The Japanese record for the maximum temperature was broken, it was 40.9 degrees Celsius / 105.62 degrees Fahrenheit on 16th August in Saitama and Gifu (they are apart each other but both inland areas). In the other words, we experienced the hottest summer we had never had!

In Japan, approaching typoon is one of the phenomenons of getting Autumn every year. We usually have big typoons more in September and Octorber than in July and August.
Once it hit the city, it is hard for us to spend our daily life. Crazy wind makes our umbrella no more work, many things like Kawara, tiles on roof of Japanese house, fly away and vehicle, even if it is big one, overturn. Driving rain is also bad for us because it causes floods.
Soon it comes good season for harvest. I hope Kome has no damage!!
(Do you know what Kome is? The answer is terribly good rice in Japanese.)

It will be probable that cars in the ship from Japan cannot leave on time due to bad weather. With strong waves, it is danger for both PCC/RoRo ships and container ships.
We will thank you for your understanding about a little delay to arrive at your port because of safeness and protecting your cars from damages.

Estos dias el crima un poco frio,pero esta muy bueno porque este verano hacia muchisimo calor en japon.
Hacia un calor inusitado,renovo un recordo de tempratura.
Nunca tuvimos tan calor como este verano.

Ahora estamos epoca de tifon.Siempre vienen muchos tifones en septiembre o ocutubre.
a veces gran tifon da un golpe directo a la ciudad y nuestra vida.
El gran tifon trae viento muy fuerte y se lleva el tejado o a veces se lleva el auto tambien.
Hacemos auccion aunque tormenta,pero es muy duro examinar en ese situacion…
Despues de tormentas viene tiempo cosecha.Ojala que el tifon no le de un golpe a Kome…
(Sabe que es Kome?Kome es el mejor arros !)

Me parece que puede ser que haya unos probremitas del barco desde japon por el tema de tifon(las olas
altas etc..)
Es un peligro para barcos de PCC/RoRo y contenedor.
Muchas gracias por entender de aplazar unos dias para salir del puerto,eso para protejer y no danar
a sus autos. 

Hoy presentamos Auction en Kyushu,punta del extremo meridional de japon.
ahi se pueden comprar muy barato pero sale un poco caro por el tema del barco.
 

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