Buying a Mk3 now mostly means buying an import

Well over a third of this listing group are 25-year-rule imports from Japan, the UK, Germany and Spain, and the threads amount to a buyer's guide. Japanese-market cars are frequently left-hand drive, high-spec (Recaros, options, functioning AC) and come with Shaken inspection history that gives bidders mechanical confidence, but their service records are in Japanese and provenance matters: coastal Yokohama or Nagoya cars are far less rusty than snow-country imports. …