I just got a job offer to work for the DoD in Japan. (civilian, not a milfag). I'm not shipping my college beater over there, so I plan on buying a car when i get there. I'll be making roughly 90k$ a year.
what kind of car should i get?
no meme shit like skylines or w/e. i just want a fun jap special snowflake shitbox that will last me the 3+ years and i can bring back with me (meaning it has to be 1995 or older).
pic related, i was thinking about an adventure van.
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fucking do it
hiaces are sweet
or get like a suzuki cappucino and do an engine swap when you get back to the states
Toyota Century basically unless you want to hunt down some rare tuner edition sports car.
This holy moly. Or Toyota Soarer
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OP here, that looks gangster af. would i have a hard time finding parts for that back in the states?
a capachino or a mini cooper
If you don't mind, what kinda job did you get with the DoD?
I'm currently in Pharm school and strongly considering taking up a position in moonland
newest sedan. we japanese are a terrible people. if you want your peers to even look you in the eye you wont show up to work in a used car.
engineering. construction more specifically.
Where you going OP?
did you use usajobs.gov?
Get a brand new family car and a cute wife. Then naturalize and have five kids, all raised to despise anime.
>make japan great again
yeah. i was really surprised i got a call at all with the hiring freeze on. apparently this position wasn't affected by that so much.
Iwakuni
Nice, this is the position I'm looking at:
>usajobs.gov
As for your question, if this ever works out for me, I would go for an MR2, a CRX, or the venerable AE86
oh good luck m8. those multi point listings like that are shouting into the void. at least it was for me.
>Iwakuni
Ouch, that sucks
>be britfag EE grad
>on a £30k/pa job straight out of uni (considered good here), in a FTSE100 company
how do i get your glorious yank salaries?
>those multi point listings like that are shouting into the void
Fuck
I guess it sounds too good to be true, federal benefits AND I get to live out my weeb fantasies
Oh well
You're going to drive a Nissan cube like every other DoD employee does.
Iwakuni isn't too bad honestly, lived here for about a year.
Not crazy busy like Tokyo and the locals are mostly friendly. Get a car with a JCI over a year or haggle it to a few hundred bucks if it's about to expire.
Try gyuta yaki niku when you get here.
Hiroshima is a pretty short trip away too.
why do you say this?
Every other car driven around is a Nissan cube user, DoD employees get used up, recirculated beater cars.
It's the nature of the beast.
It's not near Tokyo, that's why I said that.
>Cubes
They're a great car that is a combination of space/utility and price (purchase and road tax/shaken)
You can probably pick one up from someone PCS'ing out for like $1500-2000
well how bout you tell me some better options instead of being a debbie downer.
Not him, I'm 500 plates
>Subaru Legacy
>Nissan Cube
>Nissan March
Yellow Plates (Kei Cars)
>Daihatsu Move
>Suzuki Wagon R
>Suzuki Carry
300 Plates
>El Grand, Hiace van
>Laurel, Celsior, Gloria, etc. big cars
>assorted sports cars
300 plates are the most expensive of the three, and Yellow plates are the cheapest.
>Suzuki Carry
are the van's hard to find? do they come in 4wd?
No they aren't hard to find at all, but finding a 4wd one will be more difficult
I myself wish I would have bought a El Grand or something as a daily/parts van but could never find one for as cheap as I got my Laurel for.
>$700
are there junkyards there? are project cars a thing or are the regulations so strict?
i have all my tools...
Nah junkyards aren't a thing, well at least not like the US. You can't just go walking through them.
Depends on how you're going to live over there, are they giving you SOFA status?
>are they giving you SOFA status?
yeah. why does that matter?
Work in burger land, britbro.
Because with SOFA status your Road Tax and JCI will be half the cost of what a Japanese Citizen/non-SOFA member would pay, and owning a car (and project car) will be easier for you as you can store it in the base Auto Hobby shop.
Granted, I'm only speaking from experience in Yokota, so Iwakuni might be different.
>you can store it in the base Auto Hobby shop
why can't i just store it in my garage? i have no desire for that cosmopolitan city lifestyle. i want to buy a house in the burbs or something.
Where I was, Japan doesn't just have housing like that.
But again, Yokota (Metropolitan Tokyo) vs Iwakuni
I've given little thought to it, but it's something I'd be open to.
I'm in a bit of a rut right now - work and experience isn't coming fast enough in my job (nature of the industry), but I have some potential upcoming work that would be incredible.
Also I feel as if I've pigeonholed myself somewhat by being in this role, but I don't think changing jobs 6 months in will help me.
Help pls brothers
Suzuki Jimny
what about BOFA status
Probably deemed exempted as "military" or "essential to security".
Additionally, any offers made prior to the freeze were unaffected provided you start by 2/22/17.
a KEI car. because in japan a big car is too expensive to run and maintain so they get sent to importers...
I can vouch for a Delica. As much as I love the L300 shape Delica, the L400 brought a lot of advancements in not only refinement, but a big upgrade in mechanical strength.
Gone was the Astron based 4D56 and in with the light commercial based 4M40, along with an upgrade to 8" front diff and 9.5" 31 spline rear end.
Only downside is they were introduced in 94, so you'd be limited to the few early examples on the road.
get a hiace
Don't be that one gaijin with a s-chassis or some banged up mark 2
Get a n-box or a roox and shut up
something like this
...
Land Cruiser 70 series
Special Snowflake Shitbox Special:
The Mazda AZ-1
Mid engine 660ccm with turbo.
Crashing with it is probably less safe than falling off a motorbike.
Probably, the engines are all exclusive to the Century.
anybody know anything about the AWD Corollas?