I have read quite a number of threads here on Wazua about vehicle importation and learned a lot from them. However, I have not seen one that compares vehicle importation from Japan against vehicle importation from the UK. What I have heard from people suggests that UK cars tend to be higher spec than Japanese cars. Also, from my own research on vendor websites, it's clearly easier to find a manual transmission vehicle in the UK than in Japan - which matters to me. The costs don't seem to vary much. In fact looking at what is on autotrader vis-a-vis what is on papera, for instance, I get the impression that UK cars are priced slightly lower than Japanese equivalents. I know nothing about how transport costs compare and this is one area I hope knowledgeable people can shed some light on. Any other relevant contributions will be highly appreciated as well.

manual vehicles are more expensive

the UK car market loves manual cars thats why majority of cars on UK roads are manual and on the contrary they are cheaper than the autos, I brought in a Nissan primera last year which cost me slightly over 900k to have it in my parking with everything paid for, the good thing about getting a car from the UK is that they indeed have more specs than the Japan models and they have to go through safety tests to meet European standards plus getting the history of a car is easy though this service is chargeable but it gives u assurance that what your buying is fit for human use, finally it does help to have someone trusted dealing on your behalf in the UK as some of the traders on auto trader are are not so reliable

Thanks, @vky, for the information. Now we were at KES 868,702. Adding the shipping and inspection fees pushes us up to KES 979,118 to get this thing here. Not bad. @vky, any idea what would be the effect of shipping it insured to avoid the risk? And how big is this risk anyway?

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