Buy from our Manchester stock today, or let us find your exact specification at a Japanese auction. One fixed price covering shipping, duty, registration and plates.
Most customers start with our stock and end up ordering something specific. Both routes get the same twelve-month warranty and the same fixed, all-in price.
Twenty-eight cars on site in Manchester, already registered, MOT'd and ready to drive away.
Tell us the model, colour and specification. We bid at auction in Japan and handle everything after that.
R34 V-Spec II · 2.6L · Bayside Blue
Executive Lounge · 2.5L · Pearl Black
Sierra · 1.5L · Jungle Green
RZ (JZA80) · 3.0L · Super White
Athlete S · 2.5L · Pearl White
Sport ZC33S · 1.4L · Championship Red
You choose the car and approve the price. Everything from the auction floor to the DVLA is ours to sort out.
Give us the model, the spec and your budget. If you are not sure, describe how you will use the car and we will shortlist three options that fit.
We watch the Japanese auctions daily, read the grading sheet on every car and bid only on ones that pass our own inspection. You approve the ceiling price before we bid.
We handle export paperwork, marine insurance, shipping and UK customs clearance. You get photographs at every stage and a fixed landed cost with no surprises.
IVA where required, MOT, DVLA registration and number plates. The car is valeted, warranted for twelve months and delivered to your door.
Japanese cars lead a gentler life than ours and are sold through an auction system that grades every panel. That is the whole advantage.
Every car is graded by the auction house and then checked again by our own agent in Japan. If the underside is not clean, we walk away.
Japanese owners drive far less than we do, and odometer tampering is a criminal offence policed at auction. What the clock says is what the car has done.
Japan does not salt its roads. A twenty-year-old Japanese car routinely has a cleaner chassis than a five-year-old British one.
Our quote includes purchase, shipping, duty, VAT, IVA, MOT, registration and plates. The number we give you is the number you pay.
I had been quoted eleven weeks by another importer. Motorized had the Alphard on a boat within a fortnight of me signing, and they sent photographs from the compound in Yokohama the same day. Registration and plates were sorted before I collected it.
First time importing anything and I was nervous about the paperwork. They walked me through IVA and the DVLA side properly, and the final invoice matched the quote to the penny. No surprise charges at all.
They talked me out of the first car I wanted because the auction sheet showed accident repair. That cost them a sale that month and won them a customer for life. The R34 they found instead was worth the wait.
Every one of these was chosen by a customer, bid on in Japan and registered in the UK by us.
Tell us how you will use it and what you want to spend. We will come back with three honest options and a landed price for each — no obligation, no sales pressure.
68 cars · 28 in Manchester now, 11 in transit
R34 V-Spec II · 2.6L · Bayside Blue
RZ (JZA80) · 3.0L · Super White
Executive Lounge · 2.5L · Pearl Black
Sierra · 1.5L · Jungle Green
EK9 · 1.6L · Championship White
Athlete S · 2.5L · Pearl White
Type RS (FD3S) · 1.3L Rotary · Innocent Blue
Highway Star · 2.5L · Pearl Black
WRX STI Type UK · 2.0L · World Rally Blue
Sport ZC33S · 1.4L · Championship Red
IX GSR · 2.0L · Graphite Grey
Version S (Z33) · 3.5L · Silverstone
Only a fraction of what we can get ever reaches the website. Tell us the specification and we will watch the auctions for it.
A genuine V-Spec II in Bayside Blue, sourced directly from a Japanese auction at grade 4.5 and fully inspected before shipping. Unmodified, matching numbers, with the original books and service history.
It was bought at the USS Nagoya auction in March and shipped from Yokohama the following week. Since landing it has had a full service, four new tyres, an MOT with no advisories and a two-day detail. The auction sheet and our own inspection notes are available on request.
We reply to every enquiry within one working hour, Monday to Saturday.
RZ (JZA80) · 3.0L · Super White
Type RS (FD3S) · 1.3L Rotary · Innocent Blue
WRX STI Type UK · 2.0L · World Rally Blue
Fill this in and a person — not an autoresponder — will come back within one working day with three options, a landed price for each and a realistic timeline.
Give us the model, the spec and your budget. If you are not sure, describe how you will use the car and we will shortlist three options that fit.
We watch the Japanese auctions daily, read the grading sheet on every car and bid only on ones that pass our own inspection. You approve the ceiling price before we bid.
We handle export paperwork, marine insurance, shipping and UK customs clearance. You get photographs at every stage and a fixed landed cost with no surprises.
IVA where required, MOT, DVLA registration and number plates. The car is valeted, warranted for twelve months and delivered to your door.
It takes about three minutes. Nothing here commits you to anything.
The things almost everyone asks us at this point.
Six to eight weeks from winning the auction to the car sitting on your drive is typical. Shipping is about four to five weeks of that; the rest is customs, testing and registration.
Japan has the strictest roadworthiness testing, the least corrosive climate and an auction system that grades every car honestly. We have spent seventeen years learning how to buy from it.
Motorized began in 2009 when our founder imported a single R33 for himself, spent four months untangling the paperwork and decided nobody else should have to. Seventeen years later we run a compound in Manchester, employ our own inspection agent in Nagoya and have registered more than six hundred and forty vehicles with the DVLA.
We are a small team and we sell fewer cars than we could, because we turn down anything with a suspect grading sheet. That is the whole business model. It is also why nearly half of our customers come back or send a friend.
None of this is marketing. It falls out of how the Japanese market is regulated.
Every car is graded by the auction house and then checked again by our own agent in Japan. If the underside is not clean, we walk away.
Japanese owners drive far less than we do, and odometer tampering is a criminal offence policed at auction. What the clock says is what the car has done.
Japan does not salt its roads. A twenty-year-old Japanese car routinely has a cleaner chassis than a five-year-old British one.
Our quote includes purchase, shipping, duty, VAT, IVA, MOT, registration and plates. The number we give you is the number you pay.
Roughly six to eight weeks, and you hear from us at every stage.
Give us the model, the spec and your budget. If you are not sure, describe how you will use the car and we will shortlist three options that fit.
We watch the Japanese auctions daily, read the grading sheet on every car and bid only on ones that pass our own inspection. You approve the ceiling price before we bid.
We handle export paperwork, marine insurance, shipping and UK customs clearance. You get photographs at every stage and a fixed landed cost with no surprises.
IVA where required, MOT, DVLA registration and number plates. The car is valeted, warranted for twelve months and delivered to your door.
We itemise all of this on your quotation before you pay a penny.
Vehicles more than thirty years old are classed as historic and attract 5% VAT with no duty, which is why a 1995 import can land for considerably less than a 2015 one.
If yours is not here, ring us — we would rather talk it through.
Six to eight weeks from winning the auction to the car sitting on your drive is typical. Shipping is about four to five weeks of that; the rest is customs, testing and registration.
There is no obligation and no deposit at the enquiry stage. Most of our conversations start with someone who is not sure yet.
Every review below is from a verified customer who bought or imported a car through us. We publish the four-star ones too.
I had been quoted eleven weeks by another importer. Motorized had the Alphard on a boat within a fortnight of me signing, and they sent photographs from the compound in Yokohama the same day. Registration and plates were sorted before I collected it.
First time importing anything and I was nervous about the paperwork. They walked me through IVA and the DVLA side properly, and the final invoice matched the quote to the penny. No surprise charges at all.
They talked me out of the first car I wanted because the auction sheet showed accident repair. That cost them a sale that month and won them a customer for life. The R34 they found instead was worth the wait.
Part exchange on my old car was handled the same day and the price was better than the online buyers. The EK9 arrived exactly as described, right down to the mark on the driver's seat bolster they had flagged.
Car is superb and the service was excellent throughout. Only reason for four stars is that delivery to Scotland took a week longer than quoted — they did knock the transport cost off without me asking.
Nobody in the UK sells a Crown, which is exactly why I went to an importer. It is ULEZ compliant, it is immaculate, and it cost less than a five-year-old German saloon with twice the miles.
A snapshot of the last few months. Owners kindly agreed to be named.
Browse what is on site in Manchester today, or tell us what you would like us to find at auction.
Ring us, message us or come and see the cars. We are five minutes from junction 9 of the M60 with parking on site.
Tell us what you are after and we will come straight back to you.
Viewings outside these hours can usually be arranged — just ask.
Six to eight weeks from winning the auction to the car sitting on your drive is typical. Shipping is about four to five weeks of that; the rest is customs, testing and registration.