The same car, two markets, after everything is paid.
Pick a chassis. The page resolves the most-asked question in this trade — is it actually cheaper somewhere else? — by FX-adjusting current listings, modelling shipping and import duty in both directions, and showing the 24-month indexed price trend in each market. Synthetic data shown alongside live extracts; each chart marks its source.
Price distribution · UK vs South Africa
Arbitrage view · net spread after shipping and import duty
Assumptions: shipping container £2,800 / R65,800. UK import VAT 5% (used car concession) + UK duty 0% (historic-vehicle status pre-1976) or 10% otherwise. SA import duty 25% + 15% VAT, plus 10% ad valorem on luxury value. Drive-side conversion not modelled. Figures illustrative.
24-month indexed price trend · rebased to 100
Synthetic trend until the live corpus reaches statistical depth. Once the daily scrape has run for 60 days, this chart will draw from the live median by chassis-month.
Comparisons are illustrative. Real-world arbitrage depends on the specific vehicle's historic-vehicle status, drive-side conversion costs, condition on arrival, and the rand at the moment funds change hands. Back to the Advisory. · Takedown.