About Us
From Japanese car auctions to UK registration and everything in between, we are here to help at every stage of the supply chain. We sell imported cars in the UK and act as agents for both individuals and businesses importing cars from Japan.
I’ve lived in Japan for 3 years now and my father lives in England, between us we make up the japanimport team. I take care of the Japan side, he takes care of the UK side, as a result we can offer you a complete service concentrating our efforts individually on the country specific details that are required.
By all means import a car yourself, in fact for the average person seeking to minimise their budget I recommend it, you will save yourself £500 which is our fee per vehicle, we exist for those people who don’t have the time to arrange all the paperwork and port trips etc etc. Time is money!
Perhaps you want a nice quality car, or are investigating a home business selling cars, or already have a full forecourt but need a reliable sourcing agency for stock replenishment, for all these situations we can provide a solution.
Our supply chain.
Our Japanese engineers can check and verify the quality of any car you see here on the USS website (see auctions ) We can translate auction grade sheets and monitor pricing trends and the Japanese market, we can offer Japanese banking facilities in most currencies, you can pay for the vehicles in £ sterling (GBP) should you require.
We will complete all Japanese procedures for customs clearance, de registration and pre check vehicles on a rolling road prior to departure, if something’s not quite right with the vehicle it goes back to the auction.
We will arrange transportation within Japan from auction to our testing facility and from there to port.
We don’t have a multitude of forecourts in cities across the UK and this brings down our overheads. We provide a service to business and individuals looking for a specific choice of vehicle, and operate as a sourcing agency.
What we do best is to find you quality cars here in Japan, get them on a boat (to anywhere in the world if required), but specifically to the UK (as that’s what we know best), pass them through European/UK regulatory tests (ESVA/MOT) register them in the UK and have them available to the public. If you are interested in buying a specific vehicle or want to do business with us then please feel free to ask us anything at all contact us
Compare auto trader in the UK with the USS auctions in Japan and on choice alone you should be sold - as someone new to importing a vehicle - don’t be scared - we’re from England too, if you are apprehensive about buying a car you can’t physically “touch” we understand - who wouldn’t be, risk however means cost savings and profit, and unhappy customers means bad reputation.
Additionally as a UK based limited company we can offer all the security and protection of the British legal system and the guarantees and protections that this brings.
We know a lot of you want sports cars for yourselves and we can do that, no problem, perhaps your a bit short on your budget for your ideal car? Why not try and sell a few cars until you can afford to buy the one you want for yourself? It’s how we started!
For information on costing an import project yourself see our COSTS page for a maximum price, we often beat our own calculations and any savings are passed on to you the consumer.
For historical auction price data in Japanese Yen there’s a handy website here.
The pound sterling fluctuates against the Japanese Yen so you should check the exchange rate you will notice that it is considerably better than 2 years ago and even 5 years ago, it was 190 yen to the pound and over that time period people imported 10’s of thousands of vehicles to the UK and still profited handsomely. It’s a good time to import due to the shift in currency alone. Where the UK’s inflation is coming from we don’t know, but it’s not from imported Japanese cars obviously!
It’s a fantastic time for importers right now, an unbelievable opportunity to take advantage of. Don’t take our word for it though …search the web yourself….see if you agree!
Thanks for reading, please have a look around our site and feel free to contact us about anything at all.
Tel: 0208 1230625 (call will route via internet to Japan at no cost to you, Please note GMT +9hrs in Tokyo!)
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