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08-01-2003, 09:05 AM
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My parents have a friend in europe who can get vintage or old european cars. He makes the changes if need be and can ship them over here to the US. So i was thinking about getting an RS2. Does anyone know if that will be a tough car to get a hold of.
08-01-2003, 09:15 AM
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Re: RS2
No problem to buy over there. Not quite a dime a dozen, but always several advertised on www.mobile.de (their version of Autotrader). Good luck getting it into the US. Even on a "show and display" certification, it's gonna be doing a lot of sitting around with that 2500 mile annual limit.
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08-01-2003, 10:16 AM
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Re: Sorry you kind of lost me there... 2,500 annual limit?
You can't just bring a car over and drive it. You cannot convert an RS2 to US spec and drive it because it was never sold here to begin with (So ther is no standard to convert it to).
There is a special way to bring non-US cars over here that I believe is called "Show and Display" but it limits you to 2500 miles/year.
The way that people bring cars over from Canada is to get an exemption waiver if there was a similar/identical car sold in the US market - such as the case with '97 S6's sold in Canada but not in the US. Not a major hassle to bring those over.
The penalty for fraud in any of the above cases is confiscation of the vehicle, fines and the car eventually gets crushed by the Customs authority. That's a pretty big risk, IMO. In addition, you will probably have major hassles getting it registered and insured.
In other words, there isn't much point to it. especially since any RS2 you find will be about 8 years old, will probably have been driven hard and will only have 315hp stock. But yes, I like the B4 chassis wagon too....
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There is a special way to bring non-US cars over here that I believe is called "Show and Display" but it limits you to 2500 miles/year.
The way that people bring cars over from Canada is to get an exemption waiver if there was a similar/identical car sold in the US market - such as the case with '97 S6's sold in Canada but not in the US. Not a major hassle to bring those over.
The penalty for fraud in any of the above cases is confiscation of the vehicle, fines and the car eventually gets crushed by the Customs authority. That's a pretty big risk, IMO. In addition, you will probably have major hassles getting it registered and insured.
In other words, there isn't much point to it. especially since any RS2 you find will be about 8 years old, will probably have been driven hard and will only have 315hp stock. But yes, I like the B4 chassis wagon too....
Jim
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08-01-2003, 01:01 PM
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The problem is that the b4 avant chassis was never crash certified for US
Bill gates has a 959 that has been sitting in a wearhouse for more than 10 years for the same reason. There is no way to certify it but a person used to be able to import ONE car and one car only in their lifetime, exempt from the certification rules. Fees for that car run over $10,000 US I believe and then you still have a car that has been run flat out on the autobahn for 8-10 years that could end up like the car in the blues brothers at any time, hah. Better to convert a US B4 90 quattro (93-95). For the same money you can get a car with all new parts and stuff. That's what Im doing.....eventually 
