There's a market for smuggling cars
Rolls-royce, bentley, ferrari, lamborghini these well-known limousines are dreams of many. There is a market for demand, and for many years there has been a hidden smuggling channel selling super-low-priced cars in the market, which is what we often call a water truck. How cheap is a smuggling car? In the case of a porsche cayenne gts in 2015, the price of a new car is over $1. 5 million, and the price of a second-hand car in its age range from $1 million to $1. 3 million in 1-2 years, but smuggled cars can only be handled with more than $300,000; a second-hand car is sold at $5 million, with a normal second-hand price at $1. 3 million to $2 million, but smuggled cars require only $600,000 to $700,000. That is to say, the price of a bmw or a mercedes can be used to buy the top-class luxury car, no wonder people are moved。
Journalists have noticed that the current “outdoor” channels for car smugglers rely mainly on car communities and forums, followed by the dissemination of micro-trust friends. In a carmate forum, journalists saw an ad at random: “hummer, porsche, $4. 5 million, midway, $600,000 for bentley...” followed by advice from more than a dozen drivers. As to why it was so cheap, the issuer explained that the new imported vehicles sold at the 4s store in the country had entered the country through large import trades, and that the state had imposed high import duties, and that they had entered the country either through small import trades or by taking goods, so prices were prohibitively low. That sounds like it, but is it
Most of them are american used cars
According to the dmv, there are currently only two legal channels for regular imports, one of which is the importation of medium-size imported vehicles throughout the car factory and the introduction of medium-size imported vehicles authorized for sale by distributors, and the other of parallel imported vehicles imported through the official ports of tianjin and nansha. Imported luxury cars, which are far below market prices, are not the same as “parallel import vehicles”, which are now granted formal import status。
How did these cars get into the domestic market? The entire media journalist contacted a smuggler who claimed to be in dongguan through the online sale of a smuggled car phone, and if the price was satisfactory, he could drive the car to guangzhou and pay for it. The trafficker also revealed a lot of information after several communications. He stated that his own east hwang river was the most concentrated place for smuggling vehicles, most of which originated from the euro-european used car market。
Media-wide journalists have learned that the quality assurance period for vehicles in general in the united states is three years and that the cost of the warranty will increase significantly after the quality assurance period, so that many americans will sell them after the quality assurance period. As a result, the united states used car market is very large and cheap. These low-cost second-hand vehicles have become the main source of domestic smuggling vehicles, which are imported duty-free into hong kong and then smuggled through hong kong. The dmv stated that the smuggled vehicles had no legal “identity card” and were not licensed at the dmv。
All through the "standards"
There are policy responses, and drivers are doing their best to sell smuggled cars. The traffic police department noted that the most common means of “boarding” by smugglers for buyers was “sets” and that “specialization” operations had developed. Through their respective channels, these illegal dealers first identify regular vehicles of the same colour as smuggled vehicles and then, on the basis of the true data of the regular vehicles, change the identification number of the smuggled vehicles, the number of the frame, the number of the engine to the same level as the legitimate ones, while at the same time forging an identical set of documents, which is the most common system of licence plates for smuggled vehicles。
“there are also direct car licence plates of the same type purchased by relatives and friends of their own, travelling in separate cars without interference or easy access.” the traffic police stated that the car was definitely not allowed to cross. There is, of course, a strange way to set itself up, to make the owner lose a set of permits, and then to change the frame number of the smuggled car to the same number as a legitimate car in his name. This will cost less and be used in different parts of the country. There are also smugglers who look for a variety of underground channels to obtain legal temporary licence plates, which are also a relatively more “safe” method. Despite the many ways in which car-smuggling companies had set their plates, the traffic police pointed out that the vehicle was at great risk and that they had been found to have taken them directly. “no matter how much false certificates and numbers are made, they can be easily identified.” in accordance with our traffic regulations, vehicles using forged plates are liable to seizure and to a fine of up to $5,000。
Don't let it get cheap
The price of smuggled vehicles was very low, but it was important not to let them get out of your head. A local second-hand car practitioner, mr. Liu, told journalists that smuggling was not only illegal by road, but also a high risk of origin. Current sources of smuggled vehicles are known to be stolen, scrapped or smuggled in parts, in addition to used domestic vehicles that are out of the european and american markets. Many of the smuggled vehicles were accident vehicles, scrap vehicles, which were dismantled and reassembled with paint on top, but did not meet the originally designed safety standards. In addition, smuggling vehicles may not be suitable for domestic use because of the different areas of sale, such as smuggling vehicles that add a temperature protection device to their engines for cold areas, which, once used in southern china, can cause frequent engine outbursts to fail. Moreover, domestic oil and road conditions can easily cause “water and soil” smuggling vehicles to cause endless trouble to the owners of the vehicles in their maintenance。
Three million bentley dollars
Recently, a 90-year-old young man from hunan, who spent only $620,000, “successfully” bought a bentley car worth over $3 million and was happy to drive home. However, in the afternoon of 14 december, the young man and his bentley were stopped by the traffic police at the tokyo high-speed pond toll station, and the traffic police checked the driving permits and licence plates of bentley, all of which were found to be forged and the plates were set. The young man told the traffic police that the bentley had been contacted for purchase after he had seen the bomb curtain ad on a website. Although he had also suspected that the vehicle was not right, he had contacted so-called friends to look into it and stated that it was not problematic. Today, the bentley has been seized by local traffic police, suspected of being a water-carpage vehicle, and the $620,000 purchase price of the boy is considered to have fallen in water. While it is not advisable to be so greedy and cheap, there are many similar cases and different ways to buy. “the porsche that i bought was basically used in my old home town, and has not been checked as long as it is not illegal. I'd still drive that car, if it had to travel long distances or in large cities.” mr. Kong, a guangxi national doing business in guangzhou, told journalists that he had bought two smuggling vehicles. After spending $350,000 a year on a smuggled land rover, and after a new addiction, he recently contacted a second-hand car company, where he came out with $400,000, he spent another $300,000 on a porsche cayenne, which was a luxury。
