Another white gt3 rs 4.0 for sale out there..

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10-23-2012, 11:45 AM

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oh, i am there.
as evidenced by email today

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10-23-2012, 12:05 PM

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How many hours can you get in the engine as a DE car?

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10-23-2012, 12:46 PM

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The next excuse will be by 4.0 is took expensive to risk.....LOL

Peter is right, one day Giesha will lose grip and rotate into concrete.....id feel better balling up a cup

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10-23-2012, 12:49 PM

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10-23-2012, 08:44 PM

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Sorry - I had a 3.8 - even with Akro and tune, it is nowhere close to the 4.0 - the 4.0 really is transformationally different - I race a 997 RSR so maybe I am a bit finicky, but the 4.0 is not the same car - suspension, engine, drivetrain - not night and day, but damn close. Coming from a 3.8 I thought that was the be-all end-all, but..... 4.0...... Wow

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10-23-2012, 09:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Carrera GT

What's the current import regulations and private vehicle tariff law?

It used to be 100% (give or take) ... you know ... to protect the local Aussie industry for building and selling high performance rear-engined cars ... um ... Giacottalo ... that's a major employer in the auto industry still, right? ... whoops ... mid-engine ... anyway ... just a little gallows humor from a fellow "why?!" import sports car enthusiast ...

Last I checked there were loopholes for owning a car overseas long enough before bringing it home as a private vehicle, them some registration nonsense like "LEFT HAND VEHICLE" stickers on the windows. Seems to me, careful study of the letter of the law could uncover ways to get interesting track cars with limited road use.

http://www.italiaspeed.com/2007/moto.../prologue.html

The loophole for owning the car overseas is no longer the trick, the taxes and input duties et al are now calculated on the purchase price of the vehicle as new with little depreciation granted, the only imports not suffering this treatment must be over 25 years old which may make 959's attractive if only they were cheap!

I did a few recent case studies and overall it was possible to save between 10% to nearly 20% on the initial cost with the balance being lost in resale almost immediately thus rendering the exercise pointless...

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10-24-2012, 01:03 AM

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I too came from a 3.8 RS and also feel that the 4.0 is much more dialed in, and the engine is so much more powerful than the numbers suggest. The jump between the 4.0 and 3.8 RS was bigger than between my 997.1 non RS GT3 and the 3.8 RS.