Re: [MBZ] Can I buy a left handle drive car in Japan?

2021-06-07 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
And while there purchase a mothballed oil tanker for 5 cents on the dollar to ship it back home. On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 1:52 PM OK Don via Mercedes wrote: > YOu buy the car online, fly to Japan, drive it around seeing the sights, > park it in a long term lot, fly home. Six months later, go back

Re: [MBZ] Can I buy a left handle drive car in Japan?

2021-06-07 Thread Rick Knoble via Mercedes
>And yet the Chinese can sell you some piece of crapola on AliExpress and ship it to you for a nickel. That is because shipping from China is subsidized by the USPS. Also known as our tax dollars. As was something else that came from China in the last 16 months or so. Lovely, isn't it? Rick

Re: [MBZ] Can I buy a left handle drive car in Japan?

2021-06-07 Thread OK Don via Mercedes
YOu buy the car online, fly to Japan, drive it around seeing the sights, park it in a long term lot, fly home. Six months later, go back to visit and have your car waiting for you (with a dead battery). Perhaps rent it out to other tourists, like an Air B for cars --- On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 12:28

Re: [MBZ] Can I buy a left handle drive car in Japan?

2021-06-07 Thread Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes
Yeah I remember reading that I followed the link of a guy who posted in a UK 211 FB group Who bought one for 500lb then it was apparently 600 to get it delivered so all in for 1100. UK must have some other rules. I don’t know what shipping to here would be, maybe land it on the west coast and

Re: [MBZ] Can I buy a left handle drive car in Japan?

2021-06-07 Thread Allan Streib via Mercedes
And yet the Chinese can sell you some piece of crapola on AliExpress and ship it to you for a nickel. G Mann via Mercedes writes: > Go for it. It will be an experience you will never forget. > Car ... $500.00 > Shipping $5000.00 > Port fees ... > Ocean shipping fees ... $ > Loading

Re: [MBZ] Can I buy a left handle drive car in Japan?

2021-06-07 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
Our vicarious collective thrill: priceless On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 12:46 PM Dan Penoff via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > It’s not left hand drive, but… > > https://jalopnik.com/i-ordered-a-brand-new-chinese-900-ev-online-1842363027 > > You can get a good idea of what’s involved in

Re: [MBZ] Can I buy a left handle drive car in Japan?

2021-06-07 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
It’s not left hand drive, but… https://jalopnik.com/i-ordered-a-brand-new-chinese-900-ev-online-1842363027 You can get a good idea of what’s involved in getting a car stateside from reading this. -D > On Jun 7, 2021, at 12:35 PM, G Mann via Mercedes > wrote: > > Go for it. It will be an

Re: [MBZ] Can I buy a left handle drive car in Japan?

2021-06-07 Thread G Mann via Mercedes
Go for it. It will be an experience you will never forget. Car ... $500.00 Shipping $5000.00 Port fees ... Ocean shipping fees ... $ Loading $1,200.00 Unloading $1,400.00 [union labor stateside] Japan customs fees $ export US customs fees $ import + taxes. DOT compliance before

[MBZ] Can I buy a left handle drive car in Japan?

2021-06-07 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
Should I? https://respectmotors.com/en/auctions/1/Z4qZkHS1GT76TZ/ -- --FT ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: