https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/det...7787429/?Cr=11

Probably priced near $300,000 AU and no-one noticed before or after taking the ad pics that the bonnet/hood was shut on one side only.
Epic fail!

 

Haha i saw this earlier too. Looks painful

 

As far as I can see, the bonnet is not closed on either side. I hope this is not a good example of this dealer's quality control system - or lack off....

 

Sad they wouldn't retake the photos before making the ad public.

I'm wondering if dealers would have better luck selling these cars with lowering springs and wheels spacers. Every time I see a the factory stance I think the car looks a bit dated....

 

https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/det...7787429/?Cr=11

Probably priced near $300,000 AU and no-one noticed before or after taking the ad pics that the bonnet/hood was shut on one side only.
Epic fail!

Looking to trade up are we? There's a cheaper one in Melb: https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/det...17448779/?Cr=3

 

Yep, always on the lookout for a good used R going cheap especially if it's in SA.
So I check out the Carsales site once or twice a day every day and that dodgy ad popped up yesterday.
I really want it to be in SA for two reasons - so I can properly inspect it and maybe take it for a test drive, and so I avoid the horrendous Sales Tax charged on any car imported across the border into SA - my guess pushing $10,000 on an F-Type R.
But as I have commented before there has never ever ever been a used R for sale in SA!

 

I wonder if the tax applies if a dealer transfers it within their network? I know the dealer with the car I linked to earlier has an outlet in SA as they told me the grey base model on sale in SA was traded in Melb and sent over there.

 

Hmm, food for thought!
I stuffed up calling it Sales Tax, it's not that, it's Stamp Duty.
I should have known better as I worked for the ATO for nearly 35 years and although I never worked in the old Sales Tax area or in GST I worked closely with GST for many years. GST came in on 1 July 2000 and Sales Tax was scrapped on the same day.
Here is the link to the SA Stamp Duty on Motor Vehicles page: https://www.revenuesa.sa.gov.au/taxe...motor-vehicles
From my reading of that page there is no avoiding the damnable Stamp Duty, it applies as soon as you go to register the car in SA, whether it was brought across the border by a dealership either unregistered or registered in the State it came from.
The only way out is if the dealership themselves registered the car in SA (and hence they have already paid the Stamp Duty), but no dealership in their right mind would do that or if they did they would just tack the cost onto the asking price.
I have seen heaps of used cars advertised with no current rego, for example I bought my current F-Type from NSW and it was unregistered at the time.
And of course I was stung with a massive Stamp Duty bill when I registered it!

 

Yep, after looking at the pics again the bonnet isn't shut on either side it's just open a little more on the RHS.

 

Gawd, another one!
With the RHS of the bonnet obviously not fully shut.
What is wrong with these Oz dealerships, it seems they have no clues!
https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/det...18120589/?Cr=1

 

Had a look at that one today (it's just around the corner from my house). I think the bonnet was shut and it's just a bad (by F Type standards) case of panel alignment. May have been repaired.

 

No they most likely didn't close it properly. If they just pressed the bonnet/hood down with one hand, one side being out of alignment is the result. Here is a video showing the proper way to close the bonnet.

 

Yes, I believe that you are correct: I was at the dealership again today and the bonnet was closed properly.

 

Yep, it definitely isn't closed properly in the ad, have a look at pic # 3:

https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/det...18120589/?Cr=1

 

Now the missus thinks we should consider an R over a V6S...some women I'm holding out for the time being as that red is a bit lairy for me.

 

Another one!
Not with a half closed bonnet/hood this time, but grossly and utterly falsely advertised as something it is not.
https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/det...ngType=TopSpot
Advertised as an S - no, it's a base!
Advertised as having 280 kw - no, it's got 240 kw!
Advertised as having CCM brakes - no, it's got the absolute most basic brakes!
Advertised as having the 770w Meridian Surround Sound system - hard to tell but it looks like the base meridian system to me.
And gawd knows what else it is advertised as having that it doesn't actually have.
There oughta be a law against it!
Wait - there is!
So how do they continue to get away with such blatant BS????
Answer - coz the government body tasked with enforcing these laws, the ACCC, is a toothless tiger.