USS Yokohama Auction

Hi there. This is JPC’s Mail Magazine #10.

Every Tuesday, USS Yokohama is a used car auction place, where we buy often after USS Tokyo. This auction place is situated right next to our Yokohama shipping yard, so if we buy cars there it means we can provide you with the cheap transport cost. The numbers of the cars listed was around 5,000, which is about 1/3 of the USS Tokyo, but this must be the second largest amongst all the other auction places. Because Yokohama is a port city and a lot of car lovers are there, they seem to have many imported cars in good condition. Although the numbers of the cars are limited, there are not so many dealers who you have to beat in bidding; there is sometimes a good chance you might get a bargain.

This place was recently built and cars are displayed in a multilevel car parking tower. So the pro is that you can check cars without getting wet even if it is pouring with rain outside, but the con is that if cars are in a dark corner of the building, you cannot see them very well without direct sunlight. We take a torch even if it is daytime for this purpose.

Yesterday, we won a Porche ordered from a Japanese customer from Italy, a Mark Ⅱ for a Russian businessman, a Mercedes Benz for a customer from Korea and a Harrier for a customer in Japan. The customer who wanted this Harrier asked me to test drive it after the auction, so I took it for a drive on the Highway along the bay. It was great weather although we are still in the rainy season and after all the rain, the air seemed clean and the sea water was clear. (I could not take any photos because I was on my own.) As I mentioned before, the first thing you can see when you leave the auction place is our shipping yard. I saw staff loading some used cars onto a Roll-on/Roll-off (Ro-Ro) ship. This ship was like a whole multilevel car park in a shopping centre turned into a ship, so many cars were gobbled up by it. It might be the one heading to Australia & New Zealand which also carries cars from JPC. I hoped all of them get to the new owners without trouble.

By the way, speaking about Harrier, it is known as the SUV (Sport-Utility vehicle) model of the Lexus lines in America. It has a platform for easy entry and the total height is kept lower than 170cm. Of course as a SUV, it has high roof but because the body’s stiffness has been improved from the last model, you do not feel as if it is too high while driving. You can drive it like a large size sedan or a station wagon. I tried to increase the speed on the Highway and its 3.5L V6Engine showed quick acceleration but with the feeling of the wheels firmly & heavily on the ground. The interior is designed carefully including the instrument panel. You would agree to call it a high class station wagon of quality. No wonder it is the most popular SUV in Japan. Next time if I had a chance, I would like to try it off-road.

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