YOu buy the car online, fly to Japan, drive it around seeing the sights, park it in a long term lot, fly home. Six months later, go back to visit and have your car waiting for you (with a dead battery). Perhaps rent it out to other tourists, like an Air B&B for cars ---
On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 12:28 PM Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Yeah I remember reading that > > I followed the link of a guy who posted in a UK 211 FB group Who bought > one for 500lb then it was apparently 600 to get it delivered so all in for > 1100. UK must have some other rules. I don’t know what shipping to here > would be, maybe land it on the west coast and drive it back home! > > --FT > Sent from iPhone > > > On Jun 7, 2021, at 12:46 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > > It’s not left hand drive, but… > > > > > https://jalopnik.com/i-ordered-a-brand-new-chinese-900-ev-online-1842363027 > > > > You can get a good idea of what’s involved in getting a car stateside > from reading this. > > > > -D > > > > > > > >> On Jun 7, 2021, at 12:35 PM, G Mann via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > >> > >> Go for it. It will be an experience you will never forget. > >> Car ... $500.00 > >> Shipping $5000.00 > >> Port fees ....... > >> Ocean shipping fees ... $xxxx > >> Loading $1,200.00 > >> Unloading $1,400.00 [union labor stateside] > >> Japan customs fees $xxxx export > >> US customs fees $xxxx import + taxes. > >> DOT compliance before import is approved .. $xxx > >> Land shipping $ XXX [guess] > >> The experience of buying a car unseen in a foreign country ... Priceless > >> It will make you the man you always wondered if you could be, and give > you > >> a new appreciation of the parking lot panhandlers at WallMart.. > >> > >>> On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 7:07 AM Floyd Thursby via Mercedes < > >>> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >>> > >>> Should I? > >>> > >>> https://respectmotors.com/en/auctions/1/Z4qZkHS1GT76TZ/ > >>> > >>> -- > >>> --FT > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________ > >>> http://www.okiebenz.com > >>> > >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > >>> > >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > >>> > >>> > >> _______________________________________ > >> http://www.okiebenz.com > >> > >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > >> > >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > -- OK Don "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." Mark Twain “Basic research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I am doing.” Wernher Von Braun 2013 F150, 18 mpg 2017 Subaru Legacy, 30 mpg 1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph! _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
