How difficult is it to sell a US car to someone in Europe?

Yes, this is fraud. Tax is due on the true value of the goods.

 

True. And also, depending on the Counrty it may not be easy to bring the car in and sell it. In Portugal there is all kinds of red tape (what else is new). A car from Canada to Portugal will have to stay in the persons name for 5 years before you can sell it!!! But knowing prices in Portugal it will probably still be a deal

 

A huge number of people in Poland are currently importing all kinds of cars from the US since our currency has been strenghtening against the Euro, and therefore even more so against the dollar. The import duty is 10% and is the same in all of the EU countries. Next you have to pay the local excise and VAT taxes and registration taxes which can vary from 0 for excise and 17% to 25% for VAT depending on country. In Poland for a car above 2 litre capacity the sum of the cumulated taxes, shipping, customs agency rates, etc. ends up at 50% of the car invoice value. In Germany this would be lower because of no excise and a lower VAT rate. Cars being imported are M Class Mercs, Volvo XC90s etc. The R8's here are about $240.000 new and AFAIK this and next years consignments are sold out.

 

Just came back from Poland and indeed... Overall all the MB model range gets imported in Poland (mainly E, S, ML, CL). I think i never saw so many W163 US MLs before. Local shop down the road had a Q7, Gd Cherokee and Gd Ch SRT8 on display. My friends fiance got a 3.6(?) Q7 imported recently. Many US Touaregs in Warsaw. In some random village near Opole i saw a kind of shop as you see many of them with deadbeat Passats from Germany... and in the middle... a US RS4 in Red, sedan. Regretting the fact i didn't take a pic. Overall Poland and Baltic states are flooded with US imported european-manufactured cars. Didn't see any attempt to resell somewhere else than on these countries markets.

 

You have to provide an EU certificate of Conformity for cars too. If you don't have one you have to do a SVA test (I think) and it's a PITA.

 

For 100 k EUR you can buy an Audi R8 here too. Some countries have taxes other than VAT. But the 19% VAT is deductable if you are a company. And what you described is illegal.

 

And where is here? You profile shows absolutly nothing.

 

EU certificate is easy to get for recent cars (let's say less than 7 years old) given the car is manufactured in Europe. Bas, even sometimes if the car is made in the US but is from an european manufacturer it works too (cf., W163 ML).

It's illegal indeed and almost impossible. If you're targetting western europe it cannot be done at all. If you're targetting eastern, rebatting by $10k on a "second" bill of sale for a $40k car is not so uncommon actually. But billing a $100k car for $40k would be amazingly fishy to the autorities and both of the seller and the buyer can be charged with fraud.

 

It's 6 months.

 

Here in The Netherlands you could do that, bring your cars as personal luggage. But they must have been listed on your name in the USA for a year as a minimum. After a year here you could sell them and earn your money. People don't care about US cars, as long as they don't have those terrible huge running lights on their sides.

By the way, an Audi R8 costs USD 247,287 here.

 

I was referring to the EU in general.

 

378,000 USD for R8 in Norway. We win!

 

Guys, what about the other way around. How easy is it to get a new car into the US from the EU?

 

why must people post crap like this in an open forum ........................



generally its about 35-----45% import tax and some other vat................



98% of the time its not worth the hassel for people in the eu and other parts to import and people have that sort of money will just go local to a dealer and pick one up say for example in france.........

so unless you want to sell ur r8 for 1 3rd its value stay out of this failed ided ur are trying to plan.... more or less screwed up paper work can result the car being sent back to the usa and each container trip for 1 car is about 4k each way.........................