Alfresco

Hyundai Tucson. I saw the ISOFIX anchorage points when I washed it.

Strangely the Hyundai Oz website advertises these anchors with their new cars. So maybe they are ok.

kaishang

Isn't that a SUV with over 200mm ground clearance?

As an FYI passenger vehicles with over 200mm ground clearance or meeting 4 out of 5 bizarre criteria (ie your typical 4WD/SUV) are treated differently for tax-purposes in Oz: they are a lot cheaper to buy new and correspondingly cheper used.

As an example here is a write-up of the Audi Q5 where they mention this. http://www.goauto.com.au/mellor/mell...25757800018D95
It's why a say BMW X5 is comparatively affordable in Oz, but a 5-series touring isn't.

Anyway, since the price of SUVs is comparatively less jacked up into oblivion than other cars in Australia, they are of a lesser benefit for personal imports.

Exile

My car got through with ISOFIX. That was six years ago, in WA.

kaishang

What's your experience with insuring your import car been? Is insurance hard to get or expensive?

Exile

The only insurer I found that would cover me was RAC. They had to see the car and do an inspection.

It was pretty straightforward. It didn't seem that expensive at the time, but I didn't really have much choice so never bothered to compare.

I'm back in the UK now, with the same car, and insurance on an import here is definitely pricey (I originally shipped the car from Japan, so it's now on its third continent).

By the way, I had to pay GST and import duty on the car in Australia, even though I'd owned it for more than a year and it was a personal import (seemed to be some confusion on that issue earlier in the thread).

Alfresco

Thanks. Hopefully QLD will be the same.