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Old 03-16-2007, 10:52 AM  
dig0
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Originally Posted by danevans View Post
Shipping should be around $1500 per container (I think you can fit one big car or maybe two really small cars into a shipping container), it takes them 1-2months to deliver.
For taxes in your country - check yourself, often you have to do a test and get the engine approved as euro3/euro4 (eco-friendly, although most newer US cars meet even higher standards) and there are other things such as headlights (in US most cars have equal lights, while in Europe drivers side covers a bit shorter area, to avoid blinding drivers from opposite direction), turning signals usually have to be orange while in US they're often red etc.. So you're likely to have some additional, not predicted costs.
It's not worth importing cheap cars such as neons etc (unless you get a bulk deal somehow), I think the largest difference we've found was on infiniti FX45's (in europe often above 45k eur, in US ~$35k, and the USD/EUR difference isn't small either
I don't think that's much of a problem here, the biggest thing that worries me is Tax on registering the car here. It can take you up to 20% of the cars cost here I think.
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