Considering vehicle import.. fees?

[Flames9_RN 358]

I am going to a very rural area and all of the used listings are large US made trucks that are 10 miles to the gallon.. getting something good on gas would be worth a bit of extra money in the long run.. I'm just looking at all of my options though. I wonder if the 30 day tax would apply if my in laws in Canada gifted the car to us. Anyway, thanks for the advice.

1 thing the govt are good at--is getting their tax $$$$..My father gave me a truck..I went to trade it in on that new car...MB charged me tax on it based on the book value of the truck,lol I only mentioned 30 days as that was the case in Canada...could be a lot longer in your case..or none at all. I currently live in Nicaragua, and can find used vehicles, so I;m sure its possible where ever ur going,lol

[mrss13 2]

Like I said I can find used vehicles, but not the type that I want. I will have a 75 mile per day commute and I don't want to have a vehicle that gets only 10 miles to the gallon. I've been looking for a couple of months.

[Flames9_RN 358]

B I think your bigger issue is going to be buying a vehicle in Canada and immediately heading to the USA----Guess not a real issue.....may just be a $$$$ issue....One can always look at other States..When we lived in VA..bought our new CRV in Maryland..was actually cheaper.

Edited December 2, 2013 by Flames9_RN

[NikLR 13,232]

Also something to think about... all Canadian cars will have KPH as their main speedometer facing... Not MPH...

[Rob & Monika 87]

Many people around here import from southern US states...you don't need to go international to get a car. I know people that do that here, because of the salt they put on the roads in the winter, all the used cars have some degree of rust on them. So they look online for used cars down south, and bring them wherever they want to use them. It's a big country, lots of cars posted online.

[NikLR 13,232]

Agreed. Hubs car at his dad's needs a little bit of work but all in all is in better shape than 90% of the used cars here in Colorado.

My first car as a kid was from the Vancouver area (we lived further to the interior) and it was so rusty you could smell the exhaust, even though my dad put a new exhaust on it... just the fumes coming from the tailpipe through the rusty hatchback.