Many thanks for the offer , but I'm not keen enough for that to organize the transport and the paperwork around.
The import of the Nissan Santana, which still stands at my friend in Yokohama, is still not made. And the VW Polo Coupé wih the FIN-no. 000137, he wants to have, is still here, too.

Inside Europe it's much easier to arrange it...

Weird indeed...

Is it just me or does the car have three different types of tires?

In case there's anybody here who doesn't know, the United States Postal Service trucks are primarily RHD. A lot of times you'll find former USPS vehicles that remain that way when they're auctioned off.

What model 'ute'? Of course a Commodore, but what era/year-I can price check for you, but not if I don't know what. How much are you looking to spend...

I don't know much about car-prices, but that offers aren't really cheap. I would say, that they are very expensive, if you compare them with similar cars, offered at www.mobile.de

As "Holden" in Europe you can get the Vauxhall VXR8 which is a rebadged HSV Clubsport R8 which does not exist as Opel...

There are a few dealers in the UK who sell LHD cars - for instance The Left Hand Drive Place. How do the prices compare with Germany?

Eeeh, about unique RHD-cars: sorry, there is no single Holden on the European market today.
This would be really freaky - and it would fit to my birthday-present! My parents-in-law couldn't find during the cruise-ship-trip along Down Under not the T-Shirt I was asking for (the "God drives a Holden"-one, I wrote about that. Btw.: discovered at IMCDB ), so they bought me a Holden-watch (sorry, not to see right now at eBay).
Except a few car-freaks noone knows Holden over here. So a Holden would be really special. At best a V8 and/or an Ute. An Ute, based on an car, which is over here only known as Sedan or Estate. Yes, this it would be...

No idea, how. Could you please tell me more details? Please with pics.


O.k., the Zafira was less and more just an example. My wife has also looked for other cars, VW, Skoda, etc., even Mercedes, and it was always the same, that cars in Britain are indeed roundabout between 20 and 30% cheaper than here. Even the money for the ferry-transfer wouldn't change much.

Sure, at RHD-cars you always should look closer for details, for example for the space for your legs. This can be worse, compared to a LHD-car, as I've seen at the VW K 70 - what else? . The RHD-K 70 is very uncomfortable indeed and at least a rolling makeshift. I wrote before, that this is often the fact, because outside of Japan and Britain cars were constructed as LHD, and for making the RHD-version they just take a "normal" prototype and cobble the RHD in the ready car. so it's not an unique construction.
Anyways: the cars, actually available on the British market, are, except the RHD, identical with the "continental" cars, so there won't be the big problems with spare-parts. Finally all cars were produced i nthe same plants, side by side. The time of an unique British car-industry and -history is gone.

Yes, the question, you have mentioned, we just had again discussed during the dinner: "What a *first* car do we need, when Astra and Omega will be gone?" As I wrote, the *first* car will be my wife's car, the reliable all-day-car. It's up to her to choose. I have to be reluctant, because I'm not involved.
Sure, the question of getting childs is not out of the world, so my wife has this in mind, too. So a two-door Sports Coupé is not any basis of the discussion. The main thing is reliability and a low fuel(Diesel-)consumption.