Japanese imports, identified
Half of the light passenger vehicles imported into New Zealand arrive used, many from Japan. CARFIX has linked more than 12,000 locally registered variants to the identifiers the parts industry runs on.
By the CFX Gazette newsdesk ·
AUCKLAND, 23 July 2026 — New Zealand's car market is unlike most. About half of the light passenger vehicles imported into the country arrive used, many of them Japanese domestic models that international parts catalogues never listed.
CARFIX has closed that gap at scale, linking more than 12,000 locally registered vehicle variants to the international vehicle identifiers that parts catalogues use. A car that once fell between the cracks now resolves to its proper parts list.
For owners of imports, it means typing a rego and getting parts for the car actually in the driveway, not the closest thing the catalogue happened to know.
Plenty of the cars on our roads were never sold new here. They still deserve the right parts, and now they get them.
Bob, CARFIX's AI parts expert