New 7X in North America?

[Beaverdam213]

this is my daily driver....

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happy to pay $17k USD rather than $70k for a GXL since it’s more than 25 years old with 196k kilometers on it...why buy a new one?

 

[Beaverdam213]

Personally I don’t think we should be content or happy with idiotic laws.

If you know the history of the 25yr law, it’s anything but fair and just. It’s all about money.

There was a time you could import whatever you wanted. I used to own a 1983 Nissan Patrol that came in 1987.

Cheers

i’ve spent a lot of time in the patrols...great vehicle!

 

[Beaverdam213]

Just to throw a little gravel in the gears, I think a useful parallel can be drawn to the Indian Roxor. They are selling them in the US as some kind of farm-use, off-road only fun vehicle. Kind of useless IMHO, but they are selling it. Toyota could do the same with the 70, but what would be the point?

I'd suggest that we should be glad for the 25 year old exception in the regulations that allow us to bring in old 70 series. And I disagree with several posts above that suggest one cannot bring an old 70 series back to something approaching newish condition.

Of course, I am biased. I love the old 70's.

I live on a farm. you can buy anything for “farm use.”...not a bad idea.

 

[cruiserdan]

I live on a farm. you can buy anything for “farm use.”...not a bad idea.

Except for the fact you can't legally import one in the first place. There is no "farm use" box to check on the HS7 form.

 

[FJBen]

Personally I don’t think we should be content or happy with idiotic laws.

If you know the history of the 25yr law, it’s anything but fair and just. It’s all about money.

There was a time you could import whatever you wanted. I used to own a 1983 Nissan Patrol that came in 1987.

Cheers

i think that’s exactly how they got my old HJ45. The earliest pictures I saw of it in the US were from 1996 and they said they had had that truck since the late 70s or 80s in the US. Wasn’t sure what to think when they told me, but I know those rules have changed.

 

[SNLC]

Marv used to bring in half cuts 15yrs ago. He had them listed on his website.

Cheers

 

[gilmorneau]

Except for the fact you can't legally import one in the first place. There is no "farm use" box to check on the HS7 form.

True.

The closest thing is option 8, which reads (in part):

"The vehicle was not manufactured primarily for use on the public roads and thus is not a motor vehicle subject to the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety, Bumper,and Theft Prevention Standards..."

People have misread this as being a great big loophole, as in: “if I tell the Feds my import is for off-road use only, they’ll let me have anything.” But that’s not what this says. It doesn’t matter what you intend to do with it, it only matters for what purpose the manufacturer built it. In the case of any Landcruiser ever built, Toyota made them to be driven on public roads. Sorry. This section pertains to tractors or whatever, not Landcruisers.