You chaps in England have it pretty good. The LR dealer here just wrote me up a quote for a new HSE SDV6. Fuji white, standard 20inch wheels, no other bling except for surround camera and and memory seats (no kiddie seats either). Not even any side steps or floor mats.

$AUD141,800 on the road. That's nearly 84,000 pounds in your money. Which in the UK I believe would get me a Supercharged Autobiography with every option ticked, and changed.

Good grief. Greg Milner
Perth, Western Australia

2010 RRS 3.0. For towing boats and bashing corrugated outback roads.
2007 Audi TT Quattro (wife's shopping cart. Time to go)
2013 Polo GTI (wife's new shopping cart.)
2007 Holden Caprice V8 ('cos it's not worth selling it)

Blimey! How much goes to the Taxman?

About 25% of it:-( Greg Milner
Perth, Western Australia

2010 RRS 3.0. For towing boats and bashing corrugated outback roads.
2007 Audi TT Quattro (wife's shopping cart. Time to go)
2013 Polo GTI (wife's new shopping cart.)
2007 Holden Caprice V8 ('cos it's not worth selling it)

If it makes you feel any better, You can get a new sport autobio with options (most of them but may not all) for £90k according to LR's site...the base autobio (that just doesnt seem the correct discription!!) supercharged is £81k Mike

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Actually Mike, it doesn't make me feel a whole lot better:-) Greg Milner
Perth, Western Australia

2010 RRS 3.0. For towing boats and bashing corrugated outback roads.
2007 Audi TT Quattro (wife's shopping cart. Time to go)
2013 Polo GTI (wife's new shopping cart.)
2007 Holden Caprice V8 ('cos it's not worth selling it)

Aren't Oz wages higher? And if not you guys get summer all year round lol 07 TDV6 HSE in Stornoway Grey, 20" alloys |08 XF SV8 on order.

The beer is cheaper too

Don't know about wages being higher...maybe they are. And yes, the weather is a tad better.

I might be better off getting a 12-month old Vogue Luxury SDV8 rather than wearing the full depreciation on the new Sport. I can pick up a very good Vogue with less than 20,000km on the clock for under $120K, optioned up with almost all the good stuff. Seems like a better bet to me. Greg Milner
Perth, Western Australia

2010 RRS 3.0. For towing boats and bashing corrugated outback roads.
2007 Audi TT Quattro (wife's shopping cart. Time to go)
2013 Polo GTI (wife's new shopping cart.)
2007 Holden Caprice V8 ('cos it's not worth selling it)

Is there any laws on importing cars to Australia?

Transit time to Sydney is only 44 days and after the cost of shipping it'd still be a fair wack cheaper than buying over there surely? Current: 06 RR Sport HSE TDV6, Bonatti grey, black leather. Defender 90 pick up. Vito 110cdi

Previous: Mercedes CLS, BMW 330cd M sport, Nissan 200sx, Impreza STi, EP3 Civic Type R

The government has all that covered. You get slugged for everything, GST, Luxury Car Tax, Customs & Import Duty, the works. It's probably more expensive to import a car yourself than let a dealer do it by the shipload and just buy from them. Greg Milner
Perth, Western Australia

2010 RRS 3.0. For towing boats and bashing corrugated outback roads.
2007 Audi TT Quattro (wife's shopping cart. Time to go)
2013 Polo GTI (wife's new shopping cart.)
2007 Holden Caprice V8 ('cos it's not worth selling it)

.....Unless you have owned the car for more than 2 years in the UK, then I believe you can import it free from taxes. Cars are expensive here, just like everything else but wages are probably slightly higher. Full time adult average annual earnings = $77428 (source ABS) which is 46400 pounds at today's exchange rate (.6 AUD to the Quid).

Average UK salary is about £27k, but that is a skewed figure as a lot of high income earners are excluded due to a nice little tax dodge.

Doesn't matter what country though, a second hand car is always cheaper! 07 TDV6 HSE in Stornoway Grey, 20" alloys |08 XF SV8 on order.

Gmilner, i think the prices you have been quoted are a little over inflated. I paid slightly more than that for a fuji with a roof and quite a few other goodies for fractionally more than the price you've been quoted.

PM me and i shall send you the price list that my dealer sent to me when ordering.

I put a deposit down for an RRS back in April and have been given an August build early Nov delivery timeframe.