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There's a huge export market though: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_used_vehicle_exporting https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_used_vehicle_expor
by xyzzy123 4y ago
There's a huge export market though: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_used_vehicle_exporting https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_used_vehicle_export...
I read that something like 60% of cars registered in NZ are Japanese imports.
IMHO Japanese used car exports have a lot of the characteristics of "dumping" (in trade terms) but because there is no local vehicle manufacturing in most of the places they end up, nobody complains.
- steveh777 4y agoYep, a huge number of our cars are Japanese imports. It means we can get a 5 year old Toyota/Mazda for the equivalent of about $6-7000 USD (or cheaper imported privately), which will run for another 150,000km with little difficulty. We mostly don't have snow and I don't think any region salts their roads, so rust isn't much of an issue with something that new.
- s1artibartfast 4y agoDumping is when a country is subsidizing domestic production and selling a good internationally below cost. Japan isn't dumping because they don't subsidize the manufacturer. Instead they just have onerous regulations that make private parties sell their cars. They artificially stimulated local demand