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bicum - 16 Nov 2007 21:38 GMT

I am look to find out how much corvetts are going for in japan?

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'Key - 16 Nov 2007 23:35 GMT

>I am look to find out how much corvetts are going for in
>japan?

ask a dealer in japan..

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Refinish King - 17 Nov 2007 01:58 GMT

They do better money in China now!

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>>I am look to find out how much corvetts are going for in japan?
>
> ask a dealer in japan..

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The Wolf With the Red Roses - 17 Nov 2007 15:01 GMT

>I am look to find out how much corvetts are going for in japan?

A couple of bazillion Yen

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pj - 17 Nov 2007 19:15 GMT

>> I am look to find out how much corvetts are going for in japan?
>>
> A couple of bazillion Yen

Bazillion is close enough!

Just for grins I took a look. In 2006 they were pushing the
XLR for around $ 100,000 USD. This year at the Tokyo show
we are showing the Corvette and CTS and the XLR's not
mentioned.

Margin is probably not the same on a Corvette as it was
on the XLR but you can bet they've got it marked up at
least 25 to 40 grand, just to cover the logistics of servicing
the car in Japan. (Simple solution wud be to use the Italian
approach and fly it back home for service.)

Preparing a composite body, in that price range, for Japan's
"beauty inspections" must be a royal PITA. Fifty years ago
it wasn't unusual for Cadillac to completely repaint a car
before it would be placed on retail display in Tokyo or Osaka.

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The Wolf With the Red Roses - 17 Nov 2007 20:20 GMT

>>> I am look to find out how much corvetts are going for in japan?
>>>
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>it wasn't unusual for Cadillac to completely repaint a car
>before it would be placed on retail display in Tokyo or Osaka.

With the dollar taking it the buttocks, I guess $100,000 ought to be
right about ¥11,036,309.50 give or take. Although I don't know if
that includes all the duties, import fees & other tariffs the Japanese
put on foreign products to make them almost impossible to sell in
their domestic market.

I haven't been there since the 80's, but back then I think the then
new Chrysler K-Car was about $25,000. Harleys were routinely selling
for $50,000+

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bicum - 17 Nov 2007 20:29 GMT

On Nov 17, 7:01 am, The Wolf With the Red Roses <after-dark-
a...@cox.net> wrote:

> >I am look to find out how much corvetts are going for in japan?
>
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> then let's all get wasted together
> and have the time of our lives.

I like it getting wasted that is

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tww1491 - 18 Nov 2007 20:49 GMT

>I am look to find out how much corvetts are going for in japan?

Unless things have changed since I was last there -- a long time ago -- a
Vette would be wasted. Too big and you would rarely get it over 30 mph.
The "super" highways as I recollect were also very much speed limited. A
bike is the best way to go over there.

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