Saturday, January 07, 2006 - 10:06 pm, by: David Vaughan(Davidv)
Various answers to that Kylie. You can look up the retail price in Japan on one of the specification sites and translate that to A$ according to the Yen-A$ conversion prevailing at that time. You can compare it with cars of a similar nature from other manufacturers available here in the same year. You can look at the price of the next model Soarer after ours, the Lexus SC430, which sells in Australia today. You can use Search where these questions and answers have been covered, and choose your preferred answer depending on what you are really asking.
Sunday, January 08, 2006 - 03:33 am, by: Katrina Bruns(Katrina)
This is an age old question that I remember being asked on the forum a while back.. If I remember correctly.. mine was something like $32,000 USD new.. I think. Mine was a 91 TT 5 speed GTT-L. Look in the archives, there is a link in there that tells you how much each style and year was costing brand new in yen. And figure that the average conversion is 110 yen per $1 USD
Sunday, January 08, 2006 - 11:27 am, by: David Vaughan(Davidv)
Converted Yen prices do not tell you what they might have cost in Australia, if that is your interest, any more than looking up the price of a Mercedes in Germany estimates its price here. You would have to add freight, duty, luxury tax (45%) and GST plus a margin for the infrastructure to support them. Look up the current SC430 price (The Z40 series Soarer) and you have a fair indication of their market position.
Alternatively, compare the price ratio of a Soarer in Yen in Japan with the prices of other Japanese named versions of local cars which are above the LCT threshhold and scale that against local prices for the local luxury cars.
Sunday, January 08, 2006 - 10:21 pm, by: John Wan(Johnwan)
If I remember correctly, the Soarer was officially sold by Toyota in New Zealand as a Soarer for around about $250k NZ dollars. Less than 5 Soarer were ever sold in NZ via Toyota.
6-12 months later Toyota had to refund something like $100k NZ to each of the original buyers of the Toyota (imported) Soarers due to the grey imports flooding the market and stuffing up the price.
Monday, January 09, 2006 - 06:56 am, by: David Vaughan(Davidv)
Yes, I was doing a current conversion because I do not recall the exchange rate in 1991 anyway, and if we did convert as at 1991 then we also need to account for inflation. 10% has applied for the last seven years but import duty has changed during the last fourteen as well. These are among the reasons I think it simplest to look at today's equivalent model
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