3 million Bentley only wants 620 thousand？ Whoever buys an ultra-low-priced parallel luxury car regrets it.
More than 300,000 yuan for Porsche and 600,000 yuan for Bentley Rolls Royce? Smart, when you see such an advertisement, you must know that there are a lot of tricks. However, all-media reporters have noticed on major websites and community platforms that similar advertisements for selling luxury cars at ultra-low prices are endless every year, especially near the end of the year. Recently, the traffic police department announced some cases of car inspection, pointing to the risks and hazards of buying low-priced luxury cars. However, there are still many people who are willing to "pretend to be confused" and covet small bargains. Che Tianxiajun digs the stories behind these low-priced luxury cars for everyone.
Text/Photo: Guangzhou Daily All-Media Reporter Deng Li
[Price Check] There is a market for smuggling cars at a low price.
Rolls-Royce, Bentley, Ferrari, Lamborghini … … These familiar luxury cars are super-running, which is the dream of many people. Where there is demand, there is a market. A shady smuggling channel has been quietly selling ultra-low-priced luxury cars in the market for many years. This is what we often call water trucks. How cheap is the smuggling car? Take a 2015 Porsche Cayenne GTS as an example. The guide price of a new car is more than 1.5 million yuan, and the price of a used car with a car age of about 1-2 years ranges from 1 million to 1.3 million yuan, but it only takes more than 300,000 yuan to smuggle. A 2012 Bentley speeding at a price of 5 million yuan, the normal second-hand price is 1.3 million to 2 million yuan, but the smuggling car only needs 600,000 to 700,000 yuan. In other words, you can buy a top luxury car at the price of a small BMW or a big Mercedes-Benz. No wonder some people are excited.
The reporter noticed that the current "publicity" channels of car smugglers mainly rely on automobile communities and forums, followed by the spread of WeChat friends circle. In a rider forum, a reporter casually saw an advertisement: "Hummer, Porsche, 400,000 yuan, Touareg, 300,000 yuan, Bentley, 600,000 yuan can win … …” Followed by more than a dozen riders’ consultation posts. As for why it is so cheap, the poster explained that the original imported new cars sold by domestic 4S stores are all declared in the form of bulk import trade, and the state has imposed a high import tax. Their original imported cars are declared in the form of small import trade or goods, so the price is attractive. It sounds like that, but is it?
[Source Exploration] Most of them are illegal inflows of used cars in the United States.
The vehicle management department pointed out that at present, there are only two legal channels for regular imported cars. One is the medium-sized imported cars imported by automobile OEMs and sold by authorized dealers, and the other is the parallel imported cars imported through regular ports in countries such as Tianjin Port and Nansha Port. Those imported luxury cars that are far below the market price are not the same as the "parallel imported cars" that have already obtained the import status through formal channels.
How did these cars get into the domestic market? All-media reporters contacted a car smuggler by selling the phone number of car smuggling online. The other party claimed that he was in Dongguan. If the price was satisfactory, he could drive the car to Guangzhou and pay for it. After several communications, the smuggler also revealed a lot of information. He said that Huangjiang, Dongguan, where he is located, is the most concentrated place for smuggling cars, and most of them come from the used car market in Europe, America and Europe.
All-media reporters learned that the warranty period of new cars in the United States is generally three years, and the warranty cost will increase greatly after the warranty period, so many Americans will sell them after the warranty period. Therefore, the used car market in the United States is very large and cheap. These cheap used cars have become the main source of smuggled cars in China. Car dealers first import cars to Hong Kong duty-free and then smuggle them to the mainland through Hong Kong. The vehicle management department pointed out that these smuggled cars do not have legal "identity cards" and cannot be licensed in the vehicle management office.
[Turning into the road] All rely on the "deck" traffic police to directly detain the car.
There are policies and countermeasures, and car dealers try their best to sell smuggled cars. The traffic police department pointed out that the most common way for car smugglers to help buyers "get on the card" is "deck", and it has formed a "professional" operation. Through their own channels, these illegal car dealers first find the regular vehicles with the same model and color as the smuggling vehicles, and then according to the real information of the regular vehicles, transform the identification code, frame number and engine number of the smuggling vehicles into the same as the legal vehicles, and forge a set of identical documents at the same time. This is the most common method of licensing the smuggling vehicles.
"Others directly set the license plates of the same model bought by their relatives and friends. They are separated by two places, and each driving their own car does not interfere with each other, and it is even more difficult to be found." The traffic police pointed out that the deck car is definitely not transferable. Of course, there is also a wonderful way to set up a deck, let the owner report the loss of a set of driving license, and then change the frame number and engine number of the smuggled car to the same as the legal car under his name. In this way, it can be used in different parts of the country with less money. Some car smugglers will find various underground channels to handle legal temporary license plates, which is also a relatively more "safe" deck method. Although there are many ways for smugglers to deck cars, the traffic police pointed out that the risk of deck cars is very high, and once they are found, they will directly detain them. "No matter how realistic the fake license and number plate are, they can be easily identified." According to China’s traffic laws and regulations, vehicles that use forged license plates will be detained without relevant formal and legal procedures, and those involved will be fined less than 5,000 yuan.
[Tip] Don’t get carried away by the cheap.
The price of smuggling cars is very low, but don’t be carried away by the cheapness. Mr. Liu, a local second-hand car practitioner, told the reporter that smuggling cars is not only illegal on the road, but also risky from its source. It is reported that at present, the sources of smuggling cars are not only domestic used cars eliminated in European and American markets, but also foreign stolen vehicles, scrapped or smuggled parts assembled vehicles. Many of these smuggled cars are accident cars and scrapped cars. After dismantling the flying roof and reassembling the paint, the appearance looks bright and beautiful, but the vehicles can’t meet the safety standards originally designed. In addition, due to the different sales areas, the condition of smuggled cars may not be suitable for domestic use. For example, some smuggled cars are equipped with a temperature protection device for their engines in cold areas. Once such vehicles are used in the south of China, the engines will frequently stall and cannot be used normally. Moreover, domestic oil products and road conditions are also easy to make smugglers "acclimatized" and cause endless troubles to car owners in maintenance.
[Case link] More than 3 million Bentley 620,000 bought?
Recently, a post-90s boy in Hunan bought a Bentley car worth more than 3 million yuan "smoothly" for only 620,000 yuan, and happily drove home in a luxury car. However, on the afternoon of December 14th, the young man and his Bentley were stopped by the traffic police at Xiaotang Toll Station of Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao Expressway. When the traffic police checked Bentley’s driving license and license plate, they found that all of them were forged and the license plate was also a deck. The young man told the traffic police that this Bentley was purchased after he saw the barrage advertisement on a website. Although he once suspected that the vehicle was not quite right, he found a so-called friend to help him check and said that there was nothing wrong with the car. Now this Bentley has been seized by the local traffic police and is suspected to be a parallel deck car. The young man’s car purchase of 620,000 yuan is a waste of water. Although it is really undesirable to be so greedy and cheap, there are quite a few similar cases, and there are different ways to buy them. "The Porsche I bought is basically used in my hometown and countryside. As long as it is not illegal, it has never been checked. If I need to drive a long distance or drive in a big city, I will still drive the car bought through formal channels. " Mr. Kong Kong of Guangxi, who is doing business in Guangzhou, told reporters that he bought two smuggling cars. A year ago, I spent 350,000 yuan to buy a smuggled Land Rover. After my fresh addiction, I recently contacted the same used car company. After selling Land Rover for 400,000 yuan, I spent 300,000 yuan to buy a Porsche Cayenne, which was enough for luxury car addiction.