Find it is the most affordable way to import your own car.
What is Find It & how does it work?
Find It is our premium brokerage service that lets you find, inspect, buy, import and road-register a car from overseas in Australia.
We mainly shop in Japan via its huge vehicle auction network. Did you know that over 75% of all second-hand cars in Japan are traded via auction and not private sale?
Did you also know that the Japanese have a penchant for European cars too? It means you often find genuine, one-owner and ‘private-sale’ cars at wholesale prices.
The volume of vehicles at each individual site is staggering; with one place we frequent every week turning over 3000+ cars a week (pictured).
We also import cars from Europe, America, The UK, Hong Kong and Singapore too. The process is simple:
- We take a brief from you and understand your budget
- Pay our Find It fee and begin searching
- Find a car, inspect a car, set a budget after seeing it, then try to buy it.
- Buy it, pay for it, send it to Australia
- It arrives, we comply it for road use and register it if desired
Our streamlined process has made the art of importing a car easy and simple. You can also cherry-pick the services you need from the above list if you only need some help.
How much & how long does it take?
We strongly believe in transparent pricing, and our Find It service offers that level of detail to the sharp-eyed shopper. Find It also unlocks other cost-savings measures too, like discounted international vehicle freight.
Find it costs $1815 for vehicles from Japan or New Zealand, and $2000 for vehicles from Europe, America and the UAE.
Late model cars (2008+) that are readily available in Japan can be sourced within a fortnight. Collector-grade or cult cars from Japan – Like a Toyota Century or BMW M Car – can take four-to-six weeks to find. Rarer, or more specific requests from Europe, UAE or America, can take up to six months to fulfil.
During the on-boarding process, we’ll vet your requests against our private database of international sales as a simple feasibility study on time/cost before we begin. It’s an easy way to discover what kind car your budget allows for and how long it’ll take to find exactly what you want. It also ensures we’re not wasting each other’s time looking for Unobtainium.
Another benefit of using out Find It service is that your bills are staggered and not all due at once. It gives you time to plan and forecast your expenses against your own personal budget – and maybe appease your better half.
What does my budget get me?
Alongside access to historic international auction sales prices, we also keep our own database of car trading values too.
It means we can have a grown-up discussion about the sort of car you’re expecting to buy before we start searching.
Coupled with our import vehicle price calculator – found on this page – it’s easy to accurately estimate how much your imported car will cost landed and complied in Australia.
How do you differ from the competition?
We offer more than just finding and buying you a car from Japan.
Our customers are entitled to unlimited vehicle inspections overseas, meaning they can shop ’till they drop.
Every car we buy is also stored undercover in our own facility – not at external holding yards, and never at the wharf.
The same goes for when the car arrives in Australia, as we have our own workshop and do not outsource this part of the process either.
And lastly, our Find It customers also receive direct access to our international vehicle shipping rate card.
With volume comes discounts, and we extend those discounts directly with our Find It family.
Transparent pricing is what we believe in most – as well as unrivalled customer service.
View cars we've imported