Sunday, January 21, 2007 - 03:52 am, by: Yang Luo(Steven)
i bought my first soarer tt on 2003 was cost me 13200 ,after sold that one i bought a manual one cost me 15000. can't believe 80000? that's too expensive
Sunday, January 21, 2007 - 07:18 am, by: David Vaughan(Davidv)
Yang, he said "Yen equivalent". He meant the apparent cost of the new car in Japan, not the price of second-hand imports. The current Australian equivalent, the SC430, retails for about $160,000 here today.
Use Search on price of Soarers and you will find plenty of information about equivalent cost and on what people have paid for their cars at various times.
Just look at the Price (kYen) column. Thats how many thousand Yen it cost. E.g. in '99 a 3.0GT soarer cost 3,265,000Yen, under $40,000AUD... Surprisingly similar to a Supra the same year.
Sunday, January 21, 2007 - 06:18 pm, by: David Vaughan(Davidv)
It is utterly pointless looking at exchange rate based new prices anyway. If you want to compare models or similar Japanese cars, just compare Yen. If you want to compare with other cars, then compare prices in the same market. The only guides you have in Australia are for 4 series Soarers (UZZ40, the SC430) which I quoted above, or convert using factors which convert from Japanese to Australian-offered prices for the LS430 or IS250.
If you are after second hand prices then none of this matters.
In relation to Mike's point, I do not know the exchange rate in the late 90s but I recall that in late 2001 the $A bought as little as 45 or 50 Yen whereas today it buys nearly 90 Yen. Exchange rates can vary dramatically.
Wednesday, January 24, 2007 - 01:07 am, by: Luis Ramirez(Lui)
I remember looking at the price of supras back in 98-2000. A 93 6spd tt supra was around $60-$80k. An 83 supra was around $10k in 97 when my friend bought one.
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