Car/Vehicle Shipping Cost from Yokohama to Rio de Janeiro

Japan's "3-year car rule" refers to the mandatory, costly vehicle inspection called Shaken, where new passenger cars first get inspected after three years, then every two years, making older cars expensive to keep road-legal, encouraging frequent trade-ins for newer models. This system ensures high safety and environmental standards but also boosts new car sales, creating a strong market for relatively new used cars.

Cars from Japan are cheap due to a combination of factors: a strong domestic auto industry creating scale economies, Japanese consumers frequently upgrading vehicles, excellent car care leading to high-quality used stock, and the costly mandatory Shaken inspection that incentivizes selling cars at lower mileage. High local supply, combined with good condition and low mileage on many used models, makes them very affordable, especially when exported.

Because we have very high import tariffs. It's very expensive to import things. And this makes products manufactured in the country very expensive as well, because the competition is pricer (with tariffs).