importing a peugeot 206
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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?
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?
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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..
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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
Last edited by Waz996; Apr 27, 2007 at 10:52 AM. Reason: added info.
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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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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.
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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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.
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
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
Last edited by kouzman; Apr 27, 2007 at 05:30 PM.
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Very nice
*edit*
Not that I'm saying anything bad about the exterior, just not what I expected.
Last edited by Frenchy4g63; Apr 27, 2007 at 10:55 PM.
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