im really surprised they havent come down harder on grey market RHD imports.
seriously, it’s affecting alot of differents parts of the industry, many of which have reasonably strong lobby groups who are politicing to restrict these imports.
the engine rebuilders association is getting butt raped by grey market honda & toyota motors coming in… and all the brown and asian fobs all over the GTA are able to keep their rotted to shit 1992 Tercel’s and 4 door civic wagons on the road with a $500 motor and a hot safety instead of buying new or lightly used cars.
SOME OF (TIGER JAP FOR EXAMPLE - (OTHERS ARE STELLAR EXAMPLES OF WELL KEPT VEHICLES))
the thousands of rhd vehicles being imported are the scrap from other nations being dumped on the Canadian market and causing irrepairable damage to all kinds of secondary vehicle outlets that the primaries rely on to liquidate low end stock…
it’s terrible for the Canadian auto sector in every single way and the fact that it’s been going on so long is a testiment to how poorly run the Canadian government is. They should have known it was going to happen several years go.
However, guys like us are the beneficiaries being that we love the cheap, fast JDM cars… so we don’t see it for what impact it really has.