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    Vitz | Camry
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    1KR | 2AR

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  1. Best car securing demonstrated by Mr. Bean a long time ago isn't it? 😄
  2. Congratulations!! brother... wish you all the best with the new ride...
  3. Bought a 2013 Camry 🤩 Sadly not on Sri Lankan Soil.

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    2. amsandun

      amsandun

      @matroskaI think it's like the more popular Japanese model here due to Uber and other Taxi services. You get a newer (2018+) Camry for almost all Uber rides you book. The ride is quite solid as well.

    3. Gummybr

      Gummybr

      The Camry hybrid is the one that is popular with the Uber guys. A friend bought a 2022 model petrol top of the range and that has fallen in value in the last couple of years. But the Hybrids they go for good money.

      Should have got an interesting car 😉

    4. Hyaenidae

      Hyaenidae

      Congratulations!

  4. Yeah, sold my father's Suzuki swift 2004 1.3cc for 4.0 Mil within a day of advertising on 2 famous sites. That was easy and within our expected price range. But saw the same being on the market again after 2 days for 42.95/- 🤑. I don't know how that went. But my 2nd car, Vitz 2007 SCP90 was put up for sale the same way but had no luck yet. Just a couple of calls and so many calls from a car sale requesting to keep it at the sale for several days.
  5. Correct 💯your chance now brother
  6. And a famous Tennis player who was named after this? or is it vice versa? 😉
  7. Well spotted, I didn't know that. Even better you just almost revealed the license plate 😃 Maybe this was your wife's colleague's car. I barely saw the driver from the rear windshield and for a moment I indeed thought the driver was a different national. Well as I know, a DPL registration is almost like a local registration with only "DP" printed on the plates. So when transferred to a local, the rest of the numbers remain the same and that DP status will be removed. I have no idea about expat to expat transfer. But when a Carnet vehicle (which runs with a foreign plate) is transferred to a local after paying due taxes, I believe that car gets a license plate according to the current series running in RMV. And same applies for vehicles released from Customs custody through auctions after legal procedures are completed. That's why we see older cars with new number series. Ha ha...I didn't think it was something that obvious but this is you. Asked my passenger at the moment (who happened to be my wife) to get a picture of this. Annoying she gets when I ask to do these car related stuff to her 😆 You got that correct too (straight back slightly to the left) Anyways I think you know what the car in question is right?
  8. May I put something to keep the thread going? Saw this today near our capital. Looking at the number, I thought maybe this is a fresh import?
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    2. iRage

      iRage

      The local magazines do say that Toyota has confirmed that a GR Starlet will be coming up.

      @Gummybr yes I do have a GR Yaris. I probably should do some updates to the blog ⠀Yes..the GRMN is a bonkers and pure sports car. Has very little to no practicality as a road car :D 
      The thing is...the bespoke chassis of the GRY makes it economically senseless for Toyota to keep on making it. There is a lot of talk about the GRC, GR Supra, GR Celica, GR MR2, GR Starlet but the GRY is interestingly left out of most of the chatter coming out of Toyota apart from saying (and I paraphrase) "we shall keep improving the GRY from everything we have learnt and apply it to new and exciting models". 
      Other than that, they have also been testing the GRC as a rally car across all rallying tiers. Then they also made a mid-engined GR Yaris, but didn't say whether this was a test mule for the MR2/Celica or if they were looking into a mid-engined GRY.
      The likelihood of the GR Yaris having several model cycles like the Evo and WRX seems to be low. At most, there might be one more model iteration (since the TNGA platforms get reused) with a new outer shell and something unexpected, like a mid-engined car.

      The automotive pundits here seem to believe that the GRY will come to an end with the release of the new Yaris.

    3. alpha17

      alpha17

      It's really satisfying to see Japanese car makers are bringing back some loved nameplate into life (except for Supra).

    4. iRage

      iRage

      @alpha17 the Supra gets so much hate but it is such a damn good car. Find one who has driven one who would say it sucks :) Even the baby engine auto one is an engaging and fun car to drive. 
      It is probably BMW's most reliable car too :D 

  9. True this. All are seems to quote starting price of the base model with no any options like you mentioned in a previous post. A capable buyer would buy a decent new car and settle while the mass seems to doing is artificially dragging used car prices down. When seeing all these FB page posts atc it's just pathetic. Now that the first vessel arrived, their desperation seems to have doubled. 😃
  10. Congratulations on the new ride brother.
  11. Seeing funny things on social media. Someone posts as Anonymous to sell a KSP90 Vitz and put the price at 42.75. And usual guys comment 27 ok blah blah. pathetic efforts to bring down the market artificially. Advertisers and commenters all in the same gang I suppose. 😄
  12. Engine says: බ්‍රෝ චෙක් එන්ජින් ලයිට් එක වැඩද බලන්න පත්තු කරේ 😜
  13. Sadly what could happen at the end is most buyers ( most middle-class or above average buyers with a loan/finance who are desperate for a new car) ends up with the said lowest priced and lowest spec'd cars. Still, Basic Yaris for 8 Mil upwards and other low power kei cars around the same price are not worth the money right? Then they'd do all those cosmetic modifications to make up for missing specifications or add cheap after market gadgets. People who can afford will go for cars in the next level which would mostly be 10-12 mil plus. With the new condition of registration should be done within 3 months, I guess these highly priced Corollas, Vezel etc.. will be brought down only for confirmed pre-orders? Anyway, SL car market (New/Used) would never be the same for a considerable period of time.
  14. These guys are pros, a car can only play a very short hide and seek with them 😆
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