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Two Islands

From Japan to your driveway.

Japan and Britain are both islands, and both drive on the left. A car built for one fits the other exactly. Everything between those two facts is the work — and it is the part of buying an import that nobody normally shows you.

Six stages. Scroll.

Empty numbered lanes in a Japanese vehicle auction house at dawn, with cars parked under dust covers at the far end
00A Japanese auction house, before it opens

The Lanes.

Numbered bays on painted concrete, and nothing in them yet. Every car we sell starts in a room like this one, hours before anybody arrives.

A vermilion hanko seal pressed onto a Japanese vehicle auction inspection sheet
01The auction sheet

The Mark.

Year, mileage, grade, and a damage map drawn by an inspector who has never met us and has no reason to flatter the car. We read it before we bid. If it doesn't hold up, we don't bid.

Rows of cars lashed down on the enclosed vehicle deck of a car carrier at sea
02Roughly 5,900 nautical miles

The Water.

Weeks on a car deck with nothing happening. It is the part of importing nobody advertises, and the part every honest importer has to tell you about.

Cars being driven down the stern ramp of a car carrier onto a wet British dock in heavy rain
03A British port

Landfall.

Chains off, paperwork in. Customs, duty and VAT settled before the car moves an inch on a British road.

Hand tools and an instrument cluster on a workshop bench, with a car raised on a lift behind
04Our workshop

The Bench.

Cluster converted from kilometres to miles. IVA prepared and booked. The small jobs that otherwise become yours to find six months later. This is the part a listings site cannot show you, because nobody there ever touches the car.

A car driving away into the distance on a wet British A-road at dusk, tail lights lit
05Wherever you're going

The Road.

Registered, plated, and handed over with its full document history. At which point it stops being a story about importing and starts being your car.

The point

Every car on this site has been through all six.

That is the whole difference between buying an import from us and buying one from a listing. We were there for each stage, and the documents to prove it come with the car.

See what's come through.

Live stock, with the paperwork behind every one.