These bodies are all hand-crafted and the resulting vehicles quite expensive. However, although possible, it appears to be somewhat uncommon for such bodies to be removed and mounted on newer chassis. Due to pending local safety legislation, the high cost of building these cars which result in high retail prices and a general move to more western-style funeral cars for cost considerations, these traditional Miyagata-style funeral cars are slowly dying out. This means that these coaches, like the old carved panel cars here in North America, will be immensely collectable - both in Japan and elsewhere - at some point.