America is a big place so things vary from place to place. The state of Maine isn't terribly different from NZ. We call your WOF and inspection sticker here and it's good for 12 months. Most of the people i know buy used cars & trucks. We tend to run our cars to somewhere in the 290,000 km range before we retire them from service. Pickup trucks routinely go to past 470,000km. (I took my 1994 F-150 off the road about a year ago.)
I know the Japanese standards for a WOF are exceptionally high for different reasons. A quality Japanese motor will probably go to 320,000km but there's a fair chance that it won't meet their strict emissions criteria by the time it hits 130000km. So much the better for you guys. Let them bear the cost of buying new and you get a good used car at a reasonable price.
Like you ... there really aren't any good ewaste buyers in this area. .66 USD per kilo is about what they pay at the nearest scrapyard 100 km away. I usually ship to a buyer that's located about 1,400 km away. Shipping costs roughly average 1.05 USD per kilo. I could probably get that down to less than .40USD per kilo if i could ship by pallet load but there just isn't enough volume coming into the shop. It would take years to accumulate that much.
See ... not terribly different except that you guys breed some of the fastest race horses in the world.
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