Importing a Maserati into Oz

It won't be an economically viable option. Maserati has a pretty poor resale and an import should be effectively sale proof IMHO.

 

I was trying to think of a nicer way of saying that!

 

you are on drugs............arent you, i have seen psychos make more sensible decisions

 

I have noticed with interest that Italia Motori was recently selling a used 456 originally HK delivered.

 

$90k?????? come on guys..surely it's worth it at the price!

 

based on 360C rather valid sounding observations my offer is tree fiddy

 

I'd try and sell it in Singapore. People in Australia generally won't touch a high priced import, as they're hard to sell on later and the history can be suspect at best.

Most people will pay the extra money for a local car as it will always be worth more and easier to sell come resale time.

New Zealand has less affinity with local cars you could try there?

 

Asan Aussie delivery it is worth somewhere in the range of 125K-150K. No idea as an import though.

 

I'd guess sub 100K would convince someone. An issue you have is no prestige lender e.g. BMW Finance, DC Services etc will touch a grey market car, so you are looking for a cash buyer, or someone who will not need to use the car as the primary security for the loan.

 

I think you will find customs will work out the various duties and taxes based on the actual value of the car and not the export value. So your tax bill might be alot higher

 

fair enough. I would probably factor in a higher amount of tax, just in case you get some arsehole in customs try to make things difficult. Good luck!

 

just sell it to some choc "bruno" fruit grower whose made it rich in light of the recent banana boom and knows not what a "grey market" car is

 

Your explanations have made the economical logic a little clearer. On face value there "may" be a $ in it for you. Whether it is worth the hassles that you will encounter to "earn" those dollars is a personal choice. I see that you have imported a new car recently so have some experience. However, I believe that the importation rules have changed since you imported the M3 making it a lot more difficult to import and register a new car. Not an expert here; but from what I know it gets very messy, very quickly.

Scud might have some insight as he investigated the F40 situation a while back. I was told you could import pre 1990; but not post 1990 as it required crash testing??????

For me, the $ involved wouldn't be worth the trouble.

 

met him when I bought the 7 series back from the UK, wanted me to pay more duty than I paid for the car in the first place !!

Told them to push the car into the Harbour and started to walk out, he called me back and asked what I thought was a fair deal (I mean WTF!!!??)

The way they looked at it was that they could do the right and fair thing (which I had already agreed to when signing all the papers in Australia House in London but the Govt changed the rules while the car was on the boat!!) and get some money out of me, or push the car into the Harbour and get zip (the car was only worth $80k but they wanted more than that for duties)

In the end we came to an amicable agreement which was still unfair to me but better than a complete loss

 

The old "sounded like a good idea at the time......"

 

wouldn't have even been worth the pain for a ferrari I was going to keep

bloody wharfies wanted $1500 to get it off the boat and the quarantine people wanted $750 to "clean" the car (which they never did, but they took the money, SCUM!!), it only cost £1000 to get it from London to Sydney!!

then you have all the other hassles of registration, personal import paperwork, ADRs, blah blah blah

and the final insult was getting the car knocked back when it went over the pits at Maroubra because it has a hairline crack in the indicator lens !!

Sold it for about 1/3 of what it was worth