Reviews beside the listings
Buy an Australian car
from CarsGuide
CarsGuide carries road tests and owner ratings next to the stock. Send your advisor a link and the full landed cost for Malaysia comes back itemised.
What CarsGuide is
An Australian review desk with a marketplace attached.
Dealer stock, listed beside the site's own reviews of it.
CarsGuide launched in 2011 and carries dealer stock from across Australia. What sets it apart is what sits beside the listings: its own road tests, model histories and owner ratings, published by a working editorial desk rather than scraped from elsewhere.
That matters more when you are importing than when you are not. You cannot go and drive the shortlist, so somebody else's time behind the wheel is the closest substitute available, and it is on the same page as the car.
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How buying here works
Three moves. The first two are yours if you want them, and you can hand over at any point.
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You find the car
Browse CarsGuide at your own pace, in English. Read the site's own review of the model before the listing, because you will not get to drive it first.
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You price it yourself
Six fields off the listing into our calculator and the landed cost for Malaysia comes back itemised, duty included. Or skip it, and an advisor runs the same numbers for you.
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We check it and buy it
Send the link. A PPSR check and the rego history first, then one of ours stands in front of the car, and only then a deposit.
If you want the number first
Six fields, and you have the number
Everything the calculator needs is already on the listing. Copy it across and the landed cost for Malaysia comes back in about 30 seconds, itemised, with the duty and our service fee already in it.
Import Calculator
Australia- Maker
- Ford
- Model
- Mustang GT FN Fastback
- Vehicle type
- Kereta / Sedan
- Price
- A$ 61,990
- Registration
- 06 / 2022
Calculate
What you pay to start
20%
of the car price, to secure the car
Before we buy
A 20% deposit lets your advisor commit to the seller. Nothing is due while you are still browsing, and nothing is due to see a quotation.
If the inspection disappoints
The deposit is refundable if what our inspector finds does not match what the listing claimed. You walk away, and we go back to the shortlist.
Once the car is yours
The balance follows the shipping and clearance milestones, on a schedule your advisor confirms in writing.
We publish this so you can plan the cash flow. Payments go to Direct Car Import Sdn Bhd only, and your advisor confirms the account with you directly. We never post bank details on this website.
Price it yourself, or ask us
The calculator is public and it does the same arithmetic your advisor does. Six fields off a listing and the landed cost for Malaysia comes back itemised, in about 30 seconds.
None of it is compulsory. If the fields look like work, an advisor runs the same calculation on any car you send and comes back with the itemised total.
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Pick the country
It opens on Japan. Take the Australia tab and the shipping fees, the duty basis and the exchange rate all switch with it.
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Copy six fields
Maker, model and vehicle type, the price in Australian dollars, the registration month and year. Engine size drives the duty, so pick the exact variant.
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Read every line
Leave Full Breakdown ticked and sign in with your phone number. The duty, the fees and our service fee come back as separate lines, not one number.
Free, and a phone number signs you in.
Rather not run it yourself?
Sample estimate
Ford Mustang GT 5.0 V8 Fastback · 06/2022
- Vehicle Price
- A$ 61,990
- Transaction Fees
- A$ 3,700
- Port Arrival Total CIF Fees before Clearance
- RM 190,047.74
- Tax Duty with Documentation
- RM 103,719.25
- Cost Price
- RM 293,766.99
- Service Fees (3%, cash)
- RM 8,813.01
Australia agent handling and shipment fees
A$ 65,690 at 1 AUD = RM 2.8931
Final Import Price
RM 302,580.00
Questions about buying here
Straight answers on the reviews, the stock, the checks and timing.
It is an Australian motoring site with a marketplace attached: dealer listings sit beside the site's own road tests, model histories and owner ratings. It launched in 2011. The marketplace is not ours; we buy from it on your behalf.
Less than the two brands suggest. They have had the same owner since 2022 and draw on substantially the same pool of dealer stock, so a car on one is often on the other. What differs is the editorial around the listings, which is CarsGuide's. If you have searched one thoroughly, you have largely searched both.
No, and no importer's is. You pay the landed cost, which adds shipping, clearance, duty and our service fee to the listing. Australian listings usually quote a price excluding government charges, and that is the figure to put in the calculator. Your advisor confirms the total in writing before you commit.
For an import, more than usual. You will not drive the car before it arrives, so a road test and a few hundred owner ratings are the closest thing to a test drive you get. Read them on the model before you shortlist the listing.
A PPSR check shows outstanding finance, theft and write-off history, and the state register adds the odometer trail. Then one of ours inspects the car in person at the seller's premises before any money moves.
Yes. The import calculator is public, and a CarsGuide listing gives you everything it asks for. Take the Australia tab first, because the fees and the exchange rate switch with it. Seeing the itemised breakdown needs a phone number and a verification code, which takes a minute and does not involve an advisor.
A deposit of 20% of the car price, once you have seen the itemised quotation and asked us to proceed. It is refundable if the inspection does not match what the listing claimed. The balance follows the shipping and clearance milestones.
That depends on sailing schedules and clearance, so your advisor confirms the expected window in writing before you commit. The run covers collection in Australia, RoRo shipping from the nearest port to Port Klang, customs clearance, duty assessment, Puspakom and registration.
Carry on from here
The wider Australian route, and the two other markets we buy from.
Send us a listing
Your advisor returns the full landed cost, usually the same day.
No cost to look, and no deposit until you have seen the quotation.