A New Zealand second-hand car importer, Henry Schmidt, says there is a ready market for Samoa's left-hand drive cars in Russia.
Mr Schmidt, of Autolink Cars, recently returned from Samoa where he lobbied the government on the need to change tariff regulations to facilitate second-hand imports from New Zealand and Japan.
He says rental companies and other owners of late model left-hand drive cars are concerned about the re-sale value of their stock following next year's switch to driving on the left but he says Russian buyers will snap them up.
"I'm more than happy to invite two or three Russian car dealers to buy them, because Russia are buying 45,000 cars a month and they are wrong steering."
Henry Schmidt says Samoan families in New Zealand have already begun to ship second cars to their relatives in Samoa.
