Toyota is set to jolt the second-hand car dealer industry when it begins to import used Toyotas into the country for auction.

The company will set up the car bazaar near Belle Vue on Mombasa Road where it has bought land across from the Kenya Bureau of Standards premises.Toyota will bring in cars ranging from five to seven years old which it will also guarantee in quality, mileage and function. The move is likely to hit second hand auto dealers hard as Toyota is the most sold brand in this category.

Outgoing Toyota Kenya MD Hylton Bannon said work is currently ongoing to put up the auction premises and a Toyota service centre at the location. “We will bring them and sell them by auction,” Bannon said. He spoke during the opening of Toyota’s Westlands’ service centre on Monday evening.

The facility is meant to serve the firm’s clients in the area who have previously been forced to go to Industrial Area for service. Another facility is to be put up in Gigiri.

Toyota reckons by selling used vehicles it will not cannibalize its new vehicles sales as they address different demographics. “The average Japanese trades in their vehicle after five years,” a Toyota representative said explaining why the company will bring in vehicles starting at five years old.

Currently, most of the used vehicles imported tend to be eight years old in accordance with the law. Some, Toyota said, have their odometers rolled back to reflect false mileage or have been in accidents. The vehicles Toyota will bring in will have a warranty of about three months.

The move will also ease the load for Kenyans who have to go through middle men and sometimes lose their money seeking to import ex-Japan vehicles. Toyota will also set up a major parts centre at the auction that will serve the region. The only other one is in South Africa.

Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201112020075.html

*** Introduction of the new locater ***

Dear person in charge

We will be appreciated if you consider exporting used cars to Philippines by using us.

We have established new company “PHIL-JAPAN”, and develop service to help all of you who are exporting used cars to Philippines and considering doing that.

Exporters who already do business may know Port Irene in Cagayan is the only place to bring in officially unless you make it as parts. You have to ask locator for custom clearance, conversion and registration. There are 8 locators in Port Irene. It was not easy to be a new locator.
Please introduce new locator Phil –Japan has accredited 9th one in Cagayan because of our influential partner.

Our outline as follows :

Company Name : PHIL-JAPAN EXCHANGE ENTERPRISES, INC

Address : Port Irene Santa Ana, Cagayan, PH

Directors : Mr. Abliter (Phillipino)

Sano Tomoaki (Managing Director of Arc Japan Co., Ltd.)

Obata Yasuhiro (Managing Director of Bros Co., Ltd.)

Please try using us, if you are an exporter already doing business and have some dissatisfaction.
If you have not exported yet, you may feel comfortable to use us. Arc Japan Co., Ltd. is member of JUMVEA. Bros Co., Ltd. has experienced more than 20 years in this export field. Phil-Japan is the company we established. You may be confident to start using us. We will be always glad to cooperate with you in case something happens.

Most of imported cars from Cagayan were selling northern part of Luzon Inland. Southern part of Luzon was considered untouchable area.
Phil-Japan is planning to sell cars this area in Iriga of Bicol Region. Our partner Mr. Abliter is from Bicol. He knows about this area very well and has many important connections. We think Bicol Region is high potential area in near future.

Finally Phil-Japan has the office in Tokyo. We would like you to feel free to contact us for further information.

PHIL-JAPAN Japan office (in Bros. Co., Ltd)
2-7-3, Miharadai, Nerima-ku, Tokyo - 177-003
TEL : 03-5905-1154, 03-5905-1090, FAX : 03-5905-1091
Person in charge : Yasuhiro Obata
Mobile : 090-3332-1455
E-mail : y-obata@carsales.co.jp

There is more than 40 years long history on motor vehicles trade between Sri Lanka and Japan and it is still to be continued having recorded a significant volume of the total trade between our two nations. At present the exportation of Japanese used car to Sri Lanka is increasing including the modern cars such as electric and hybrid equipped vehicles.

Given the circumstances, importation of best quality, most efficient and value for money vehicles to Sri Lanka from Japan, particularly in the used cars’ context, has been sometimes a problematic due to trends and changes of the trading methods and patterns, regulations and other various matters that are in exist. At the same time, this trade among the two countries has been affected the developments such as the Japanese economic recession, appreciation of Japanese Yen and the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and the nuclear disaster that occurred in the East part of Japan.

In considering all these aspects of this trade, the SLBCJ included this sector as to be addressed in its Promotional Year Plan for 2011 and has organized the SLBCJ Motor Vehicle Summit Tokyo from 08th to 12th December 2011, jointly with the Embassy of Sri Lanka. During this Summit it is being scheduled to make a useful dialogs among the participants broadly on the concerns on Sri Lankan import side as well as the Japanese export side. Further, visiting the 42nd Japan Motor Show in Tokyo Big Site that will be held from 02nd to 11th of December 2011 and the leading car manufacturing factory in Kanagawa are also would be the other best opportunities of participating at this Summit.

The participants and the resource persons from both sides at this Summit will be included the senior government experts who are involving regularly in this sector, vehicle import/ export associations and relevant private sector businesses such as buyers, sellers, auctioneers, exporters, importers etc.

We are therefore extending our sincere invitation to you to take a part of this most useful and exiting Summit.

For more detail, Please contact :
Forum timings : 01:30 PM–06:00 PM
Dinner : 07:00 PM / Summit Dinner at GRAND PRINCE HOTEL, TAKANAWA
Participation fee : 20,000 (JPY) per head

For more detail, Please contact :
If you are interested in joining this event, please check full detail at below url :
http://slbcj.com/mv_summit-2011.html or email to : info@slbcj.com

source : http://www.slbcj.com/mv_summit-2011.html