I can't believe it will be over 230k...

Really? Would you get the car in less than a year? LOL.

 

yes it is cheap. I know that sending a car, in a closed container, from japan to the UK is only £1200, or about $1800. Thats a pretty long way the boat has to travel and it only takes 6 weeks.

 

Some Ferrari owners in Australia get their Ferraris flown in, which costs about $20k and saves you a month

 

In Hong Kong it will cost double what it does in the US. They have a 100% new car import tax (which means every car sold). And, I can guarantee you they will have no problem selling them.

One of my co-workers in HK bought a Maserati Coupe and paid what I did for an F430 spider in the US.

We in the US have it easy.

 

This cropped up in another thread and it's quite shocking really as earnings are not double what they are elsewhere. So it seems that while you obviously have to be pretty well off to have a Ferrari where most of us live you really have to have hit the jackpot to put a red car in your garage in HK. Not fair.

 

It's all very well comparing the price of the 458 to a low mileage 599 but as has already been said, they're two completely different cars plus, how does the running cost of a 599 compare to that of a rear engined V8 Ferrari?. It may not matter to some but it will for plenty of others.

Besides all that, part of the whole Ferrari mystique is that unlike Porsches (and where I live, Aston Martins for some reason), they are not two a penny cars that you don't even notice anymore. $230K + is the price you pay for exclusivity and it's always been that way. When the 308 series was the entry level Ferrari, the price in the UK was equivelant to that of a small house. With a UK price of @ £170K for the 458, it's still pretty much the same deal.

 

$300K? it's very close to Lp640

 

It's the same story in Thailand. The taxes in some countries are absolutely insane.

 

i believe the New car tax in Denmark is @ 180%

 

3 weeks if you got it down

 

shipping a car to denmark is only about 900 (not including insurance) in a container, Ro-ro is cheaper... And this is from the left coast of the US.... So it has to go through the panama canal

 

Details on how the Danish taxman gets you one way or another: http://www.skat.dk/display.aspx?oId=134402&vId=202277&indhold=1

 

im just talking shipping my friend. Just shipping taxes very on price of the car, year of the car, and use in some countries.

 

Sorry, My mistake. Still, having looked at some of the car tax rates in some other countries I now appreciate that things could be a lot worse here in the UK!.

 

LOL and thats saying alot. There are better ports to ship to for tax reasons in europe