Toyota Raize for Export from Dubai

The Toyota Raize is about as small as a crossover gets, and that is the entire reason it works as an export car. The engine is the smallest of anything we ship, so it sits at the very bottom of every duty schedule that charges on engine size, and freight costs next to nothing because the car takes up so little room. Almost all of our stock is within three years of the date of manufacture. The thing most buyers do not know is that it is not really a Toyota design at all.

Vehicle specifications

The Raize is a five-seat compact crossover, front-wheel drive, with a small petrol engine of either 1.0 litres turbocharged or 1.2 litres naturally aspirated depending on the car, driving through an automatic gearbox. It is genuinely small on the outside while sitting high enough to feel like an SUV from the driver's seat, which is the trick the whole segment is built on. Trims move the screen, the wheels and the safety equipment rather than anything mechanical.

Two things to nail down against the VIN. The engine, because the 1.0 turbo and the 1.2 are different propositions to run and can fall into different duty bands depending on where you are shipping, and neither is obvious from outside. And the equipment level, since the safety and driver-assistance kit varies more between trims on this model than the price gap suggests, and it is the sort of thing a retail buyer at the other end asks about.

Toyota Raize Export Dubai: logistics and buying process

You deal with the seller directly through OneClickDrive. There is nobody in between and no commission added. Filter our listings by trim, engine and mileage, then reach Dubai's Toyota Raize export dealers by phone, WhatsApp or callback. When you buy a Toyota Raize for export from Dubai, confirm the engine, the trim, the mileage and the VIN in that first conversation and ask for photographs of the car itself.

Check the mileage against the model year carefully on this one. A lot of Raize stock in Dubai has spent its life in fleet use, which is not a problem in itself since fleet cars are serviced on schedule, but it does mean the mileage can be high for the age and the interior will show it. Ask for the service record in writing and ask for interior photographs, not just the outside. A high-mileage fleet car that has been maintained is a perfectly sound buy; the point is to know which one you are looking at and pay accordingly.

Freight is the cheapest of anything we handle. The Raize is short, narrow and light, needs no special handling, and takes up very little space on a vessel, so RoRo works out extremely cheap for a single car. If you are moving several, more of these fit in a container than almost any other car we ship, which is why fleet buyers tend to take them in batches.

The order of events stays the same. Choose the engine and trim, confirm colour, interior and equipment, take a quotation covering shipping and documentation, secure the booking through a verified payment option, then take delivery by sea or overland. Inspection through to customs clearance is handled for you.

Export process and requirements

Most Raize stock is used and registered in the UAE. Fines, Salik and any finance are cleared first, with a bank No-Objection Certificate where the car was financed. The RTA de-registers it and issues temporary export plates along with the Export Certificate, which cancels the local registration and replaces the Mulkiya. The export is declared to Dubai Customs, and a VCC is needed to register the car in any GCC country.

Where a car has never been registered here, there is no Mulkiya and no de-registration to arrange. The dealer's purchase invoice proves ownership and travels with a Certificate of Origin. Exports are usually zero-rated for VAT when completed and documented in time.

The engine is the strongest thing about this car commercially. At 1.0 or 1.2 litres it is the smallest we ship, and it sits at the very bottom of every schedule that taxes on displacement, below where most small hatchbacks land. Record the exact capacity on the invoice as a number. Age helps too, with almost all of our stock inside three years of the date of manufacture, so even the strictest import limits leave you nearly the full choice. The thing to be ready for is the paperwork on origin and design. The Raize is built on a Daihatsu design and is sold in some countries as the Daihatsu Rocky and in Malaysia as the Perodua Ativa. Toyota owns Daihatsu, so nothing is irregular here, but a buyer or an official who knows the car by one of those other names may query it, and the documents need to be consistent.

Available export models and pricing

The Toyota Raize export price in Dubai depends on the engine, the trim, mileage and condition, and our listings show the current numbers as stock turns over. The cheapest Toyota Raize export from Dubai is a higher-mileage car in a lower trim, and the newest low-mileage cars sit at the top. On this model mileage does more to the price than model year does, because so much of the stock has had fleet use. What sells the Raize is total cost. It is the cheapest car we handle to buy, to land and to run, it wears a badge that is trusted almost everywhere, and parts are available in markets where nothing else at this price has a network. To export Toyota Raize Dubai stock in quantity, tell the seller the engine, the trim and the number at the start.

Required export documentation

For a car registered in the UAE, which is most of this stock, you need the original registration card, which is the Mulkiya, the RTA Export Certificate, temporary export plates, a bank NOC if there was finance, proof that fines and Salik are cleared, and insurance on the export plates that runs about 14 days.

For a car that has never been registered, the dealer's purchase invoice takes the place of the Mulkiya and travels with a Certificate of Origin.

Both routes then need your passport or Emirates ID, the seller's ID on a used transfer, a sale invoice showing price and VIN, the Dubai Customs export declaration, a VCC for GCC destinations, and the Bill of Lading. Two things are worth checking on this model. The engine capacity written as a figure, since the whole cost argument rests on being in the lowest band and nobody will assume it for you. And the model name recorded consistently as Toyota Raize across every document, because the same car is sold elsewhere under two other names and a paperwork set that mixes them is exactly the kind of thing that gets queried at a border. Keep originals with your copies, and check the drive-side rule and whether your destination asks for a Certificate of Conformity.

Key locations and hubs

• Al Aweer Auto Market at Ras Al Khor, where most of the ex-fleet Raize stock ends up and where the export trade is concentrated.
• Sheikh Zayed Road and Al Quoz showrooms for the newest low-mileage cars.
• RTA Tasjeel and Al Aweer centres for de-registration, export plates and the Export Certificate.
• Dubai Customs for the export declaration and the VCC.
• Jebel Ali Port inside JAFZA, the main sea gateway and where container loads get made up.
• Al Ghuwaifat for the Saudi border, with Hatta and the Oman crossings for GCC road exports.

Popular export destinations for the Toyota Raize

Cheap to land, cheap to run and wearing a badge everyone trusts, the Raize goes almost everywhere. West and Central Africa take a great deal of it through Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Guinea and DR Congo, where the Toyota parts network reaches further than any rival and low running costs decide most purchases. North Africa buys steadily, with Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia strong on small crossovers for private buyers. The GCC and the wider Middle East is straightforward, Saudi Arabia the largest of them, moving overland through Al Ghuwaifat with a VCC required, alongside Oman, Kuwait, Qatar, Iraq and Jordan. Central Asia takes consistent numbers. In most of these the badge does the selling for you, which is not true of anything else at this size and price.

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Browse our complete list of cars for export from Dubai, or see Toyota cars for export. If you are comparing small crossovers, look at the Toyota Urban Cruiser and the Suzuki Fronx.