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  1. L numbers came only with the single cab 110 and 130, thereby running the heavy vehicle rego, but most have now been converted to dual purpose after a body swap. The resale market is a bit low for the L plates 53 to 58 mostly were station wagons and some single cabs, also a few ex embassy 61 62 mostly single cabs as well running heavy vehicle rego 69 ex embassy 64 65 again a mixup of mostly station wagons and some canopy single cab 110s and 90s 32 again a mixup of 90s and 110a if you have the chassis no, you can decode to what the car originally was 90 or 110, hard top, soft top, 110 90 or series etc
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  3. Well...I beg to differ form some of the comments above. I would go for the RAV4. 2007 model would mean you are lookng at a A30 series one and I have had 4 of them in three different countries. My last one is actually my mother's one which she has owned since 2008 when she first bought it when she lived in Japan. She bought it down to Sri Lanka in 2013 with just 17,000km on it and since then we have put 64,000km on it. In all this time we did the preemptive maintenance work which included replacing the shocks (although shocks were pretty good) and the suspension bushes (which cost about 250K since we got the parts from Japan) and now we are planning on doing the gasket replacement etc.... Then of course the running services like CVT fluid replacements and oil changes and bake pad replacements. We have had ZERO faults with the car and the car runs as good as new. Any car has preemptive maintenance work that needs to be done and these are NOT issues. The thing is I do believe that if you find a properly maintained RAV4 (with genuine parts and done on time) its maintenance "issues" (I would rather say requirements) even at a older state is actually much better than a MG even though it is a lot newer. Primarily because so far I have not been impressed with the MG's build quality and the service life of the components it is constructed with. But then again....it is about finding a a well maintained vehicle. If you are buying a second hand vehicle...in any country....you should be willing to do pre-emptive maintenance (so it is not an issue). Because of how he pre-emptive maintenance schedules are now structured (in a progressive manner)...the pre-emptive maintenance at 100K is not going to be drastically different in terms of cost from what it would have been at 50,000km. It is going to be expensive with proper parts and labor at all stages.What other repairs you will have to do....not even the gods can tell you because it all depends on how the previous owner had taken care of the vehicle. It does not matter if the used vehicle is 1 year old or 12 years old. It is just that a 12 year old Toyota, Mitsubishi, Nissan properly maintained is not going to be any much worst (or even better) than a 3 or 4 year old MG. If your budget is 4mil then you should not spend all of it on the car...save some for mandatory replacements and such no matter what you buy. If you want a risk free car....buy brand new....even if it is a hatch or a proper unregistered import that you yourself selected at an auction or a barely used recent import (you are not going to find one that is honest). But then these are going ot be out side of your budget. What I would say is....buy what you like....that is in good condition and is honest and with a proper service history. Get in to a few..use them....and you will see that the older RAV4s, CRVs and XTrails that are well taken care of are actually better than the MG.
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  4. Why not consider a Toyota Rush/Daihatsu Terios? You will be able to find a newer car than the RAV 4, which will be more reliable and durable with better resale value hopefully than the MG.
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