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I'm soon to head off to Europe for an extended working holiday, i'm getting an Ancestry Visa, and i was thinking about a private import to bring back, as i will be there for more than a year,

The car will be for my father, and he's looking at a few things mainly the CL500 merc, newer model

I've done a search and not much returned info about importing from Europe, is this any different than say Japan?

I'll more than likely garage the car most of the time, but leave it rego'd and i'll have an international drivers license, so i might just have to take it for a spin occasionally, but will me being an aus citizen, will it classify as a personal import?

Also what other options do you think would be a good candidate?

Dad's business is in real estate http://www.reod.com.au and he already has a 2000model Range rover, and was thinking this would be the next thing to get, rangie for country properties and this for the city ones

Another option would be the new Range Rover Sport supercharged :down: alll because they are a lot lot cheaper overseas than here

Anyway, any help would be appreciated in regards to the inporting side of things and if i qualify

and also a selection of cars that would be nice or even profitable to sell again

And i'm aware that getting a new expensive merc as a grey import would be hard to sell here, cause everyone wants proven history etc of the vehicle

Thanks in advance

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Beer Baron Grand Master

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it is no different from importing from any other country. doesn't matter if you are importing from england, or brunei or japan. any questions about the rules of personal import should be directed to DOTARS as they are the ones who will process your application not us. it won't help if we say "sure international licence is fine" and then they turn your application down. saying to them, "well beer baron told me it should be ok" won't help. trust me! talk to DOTARS, they are not the enemy.

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If you are going to bother bringing something back then make it something that was never sold here. Eg anything with Cosworth in the name, a Lancia Delta Integrale, an early BMW M3 (LHD so not sure if you can rego them outside WA)

Don't bother with common or garden variety stuff.

Gav Mentor

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Atom Ariel for the win!

I can't see this getting rego approval here anytime soon (been watching their website for a few years now).

You would either be unique in Oz or turn a decent profit to have the only road registerable one (that I know of anyway) in the country.

Ten Four Grand Master

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TVR Tuscan/Cerbera FTW! Both 300kmh supercars that cost about A$50k ($20-25k pounds)

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/TVR-Tuscan-Coupe-4-0...1QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/TVR-Tuscan-Coupe-4-0...1QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1999-T-TVR-CERBERA-4...1QQcmdZViewItem

mmmm

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