Quote Originally Posted by aaronng View Post
Why so? The UK CTR has an RRP of UKP18,000 (AU$42,250), while the Jap CTR is JPY2,835,000 (AU$28,770). Are you saying that Honda Australia is able to bring in the UK CTR at same RRP in UK, but can't do the same with the JDM CTR eventhough shipping from Japan is cheaper than shipping from UK?
well i guess u also need to look at the price for other Japan sourced cars.

eg. the odyssey is selling around 2,500,000 yen for a medium model without leather but includes other goodies like Sat Nav. given the ex-rate from your calc for FD2 above, it's roughly AUD$25,380 and yet the base car here sells for mid 30k.

if the odyssey example applies for FD2R, i think it's fair to estimate the rrp would be higher than FN2.