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Old Apr 27, 2007, 10:22 AM
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Question importing a peugeot 206

ok peoples. i have a question.
I heave searched around the interenet for all the steps involved in importing a car from the UK into the USA. i wanna get a peugeot 206. I pretty much have all of it down.
The one thing i don't know is how much the actual cost of shipping the car would be.

Does anyone have a rough idea on how much the actual shipping cost would be?
Old Apr 27, 2007, 10:43 AM
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Like always with these things you have to make sure the car is listed on the US governments list of cars that are allowed to be imported, if it's not then the car has to be completely disassembled and put back together once it's here and classified as a kit car. If you don't find a carrier you can piggyback off of (packing the car up yourself, delivering it to the dock, picking it up a week/two weeks later at the dock and unpacking it) then you can FedEx it for about $8-12K.
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Funny!

I have a 206RC (2liters, 180hp) and it's a 2004 model, done 75,000kms.. Wanna buy?! ;-)

The RC is a great car, i call it the mosquito coz all it does is annoy the muscle cars.. It's got decent power and mostly got a lot of safety systems: active steering, active brakes, ASR, ASD which all work like wonder.. It's got a 6cd changer and a Bose stock system..

My gtech results are a 7.2sec to the 100km/hr and a 15.4 quarter mile.. I'ts 5speeds manual btw..

Wael

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Old Apr 27, 2007, 11:24 AM
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^how much?
Old Apr 27, 2007, 11:37 AM
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I would look at getting a car in Mexico. It would be much easier to get to and into the US. I'm not sure the registration process will be any different, but getting it in should be much easier. I see them all the time in Texas with Mexican plates.
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Originally Posted by crypto
i wanna get a peugeot 206.
why? whats so special about it?
Old Apr 27, 2007, 01:28 PM
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it's the car i've always wanted since i was a kid. i was born and raised in England.

I wanna take this:


And turn it into something like this:
Old Apr 27, 2007, 01:34 PM
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You can probably do it, but you need something like this: $$$$$$$$$
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well i've found a tonne of used 206's in the UK for like 1500 pounds, thats about $3,000. Which for a car like that, with only around 50,000 miles on em is excellent. I've found almost all of them are around that price range.
So the cost of the actual car is nothing, it's getting here that is gonna be the problem.

This will most likely be a VERY long term project. I'm in no hurry, and i'm betting this will take many years, but i wanna do it.
Although my fiancee just gave me a massive lecture on how i need to be responsible and i don't need to waste my time on stuff like this, unless i win the lottery.
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Ive seen a yellow one of those driving around twice close to my work here in Phoenix.

Seems like a cool car, but id probably buy something else with the money
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It's a gray market car. There is no other cars like it in the US, nor is Peugeot.

Who is going to pay for the several cars that NTSA can crash test it? Go ask your insurance company?

BTW: there are always people claiming they can smuggle . . . I mean bring a Skyline R34 for a mere 18 grand. Everything legit. Send them money and they scurry away as fast as those Nigerian email scams. Or get stuck on US borders and YOU have to fight the Federal gov't trying to free it from port.

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Mate if you find a way then tell me...

This is one of the cars i owned when i was in Greece... I had the CC version (Coupe - Cabriolet) and of course it was tuned...
















and a small video...

http://www.zippyvideos.com/159153881532245.html

http://www.zippyvideos.com/105251274532205.html

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^nice car!!!

does the car HAVE to be street legal? i mean, if i am just gonna race it on the track it doesn't need to pass all the inspections, correct? That's only if i'm gonna get a registration for it.

or am i thinking wrong?
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Originally Posted by kouzman
Mate if you find a way then tell me...

This is one of the cars i owned when i was in Greece... I had the CC version (Coupe - Cabriolet) and of course it was tuned...





Wow, not the interior I expected to see from the looks of the exterior.

Very nice

*edit*
Not that I'm saying anything bad about the exterior, just not what I expected.

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Old Apr 28, 2007, 12:18 AM
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Originally Posted by Frenchy4g63
Wow, not the interior I expected to see from the looks of the exterior.

Very nice

*edit*
Not that I'm saying anything bad about the exterior, just not what I expected.
+1 that interior looks like that of a lcury coupe/sedan... borat:very niiiicee:borat


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