Aussie imports

Wat is the story wth these imports? Are they ok to buy? How much cheaper are cars in aussie?

cars are often very expensive in aussie due to their lack of competing imports.
private import fair enough. but wholesale i would be looking really close at them.
there was a concern that vehicles that where written off in floods would be "fixed" and exported out of aussie.

Cars ain't cheaper in auzzie.
However its against the law in auzzie to reregister a car that has been written off in Auzzie.
This means that wright offs are pretty darn cheap.-relatively speaking.
In fairness to the guys selling them an INSURANCE wright off can be as little as hail damage.-Remember there were a fair few cars got pummelled by hail a few months back.So even though the damage is cosmetic its extensive enough with late model cars to be wright off.

There are some quite specific rules and terms around "category write-offs" in Australia, whereby a near-new vehicle can suffer only minor damage and be classified as a statutory write-off, but still be able to be exported to New Zealand. And by minor, I mean it- the sort of stuff you'd have in and out of the shop in two or three days.

Technically, there exists an agreement of datasharing between the NZ and Australian authorities over VIN numbers of vehicles thus deregistered, they then enter our system and are equally "flagged".

There are also market niches of perfectly sound undamaged vehicles that are viable for export to New Zealand- Australia has now become the number 2 source of used vehicles into NZ behind Japan, mostly stuff like Commodores, Falcons and utes.

But you need to be a fair expert at knowing and understanding the gaps, and also having the right sourcing connections. The major auction houses in Sydney, for example, operate like Turners here- basically a retail price store- no good for wholesale buying.