3-year car import age limit stays firm — fair call, or a missed chance to cut prices?

The government has held the import age limit for ordinary passenger cars and SUVs at 3 years from manufacture, turning down repeated industry requests to relax it to 5 years, even though vans, buses and other commercial vehicles already get that longer window. Importers argue a 5-year rule would unlock a much bigger pool of Japanese stock, push prices down, and ease the shortage buyers keep complaining about. Others say the 3-year rule is the only thing stopping the market from filling up with higher-mileage, lower-spec units, and that keeping the bar high is what protects resale value for everyone who already bought recent stock. If the limit moved to 5 years tomorrow, would you actually buy an older, cheaper unit, or does the extra wear and lower spec put you off? And if you bought a near-3-year-old recon car recently, was the price gap over a fresher one actually worth it? සීමාව අවුරුදු 5ක් කළොත් පරණ කාරයක් ගන්නද ඔබ කැප වෙන්නේ?