May 20, 2010
Parallel importer vanishes
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Ads placed by SQ Carz, whose Woodlands showroom has been taken over by another car company. -- ST PHOTO: STEPHANIE YEOW
CAR buyer Lee Chian Heng was attracted to Toyota's new Wish seven-seater last June, but it was not yet available at authorised agent Borneo Motors. Then he came across parallel importer SQ Carz, which advertised the Wish at a little over $70,000, and was hooked. 'They took out half-page ads regularly, and when I went down, the showroom was fairly big and the salesman behaved quite professionally,' Mr Lee, a 55-year-old engineer, recalled.
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