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Not entirely correct, you can't just look at the exchange rate and apply the price to your local market as a direct comparison. In the NZ market the average SVX price was down to about $3-4 K with some tidy cars down to $1500 (I have even seen a tidy Pearlie with nothing wrong with it go for $800!).
The 1st example is already in NZ and has been advertised several times with no takers and now out of the blue it is topping 10 grand.
The Japanese recertification process is well known down here and we take advantage of it, we take alot of their 2nd hand cars as NZ is also a RHD country (it only costs NZ$1700 for shipping) which has pushed car prices wayyyyyyy down.
I have been watching the 2nd site (a Japanese site) for a while now and have definatly seen an increase in the last six months or so in the asking price for SVXs (up to $14K US).