Toyota Chaser for sale in Japan

Buying one from here

Tourer V is the turbocharged car

The Tourer V has the 1JZ-GTE and is the one people mean when they talk about a Chaser. The naturally aspirated Avante and Tourer S are the same shape for much less money, and are sometimes advertised in a way that blurs the difference.

Assume it has been drifted

This is one of the definitive drift saloons, so repairs to the rails, the rear quarters and the boot floor are common. Read the sheet diagram carefully and treat R and RA grades as the accident repairs they denote.

The engine

The 1JZ-GTE is durable and almost always boosted. There is no compression test available in Japan, so an honest sheet, a full set of photographs and an inspection at the auction house are the evidence you get.

What it costs to land one in the US

Ocean freight, customs duty, clearance and our sourcing fee sit on top of the Japanese price. The duty rate is 12.5% of the car's value — the figure JDM Imports works to, and the one the calculator uses; see tariffRate in js/services/calculator.js, which is the authority. Every line of that cost is set out here, and the 25-Year Rule is explained here. The landed cost calculator works the whole figure for any car on this page before you commit to it, and cars 2002 and older clear the 25-Year Rule.