Importing a G35 coupe to Canada
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Originally Posted by ironring
Lots of good details in the posts above.
Overall, the experience was pretty straight forward. Had the car shipped from Arizona by a company called AAA Transports-----pretty good deal for door to door delivery ---cost me only $1400 CAD---and they had it literally at my front door 5 days after picking the car up. I had them arrange a broker for me as well to deal with all the paper work and fees at the border---cost me another $120 for their service.
When it was all said and done, the car cost me $21K, with duties, taxes, shipping, certification and incidentals, the grand total came to just shy of $27K-----still a pretty good deal in my eyes.
Good Luck---let me know if you need any more details..
Overall, the experience was pretty straight forward. Had the car shipped from Arizona by a company called AAA Transports-----pretty good deal for door to door delivery ---cost me only $1400 CAD---and they had it literally at my front door 5 days after picking the car up. I had them arrange a broker for me as well to deal with all the paper work and fees at the border---cost me another $120 for their service.
When it was all said and done, the car cost me $21K, with duties, taxes, shipping, certification and incidentals, the grand total came to just shy of $27K-----still a pretty good deal in my eyes.
Good Luck---let me know if you need any more details..
If you have to pay additional PST it may work out to be the same price as in Canada. But the question is can you find the exact car your looking for in Canada? I couldn't- black on black, brembos, 6mt, navi, areo aka every option with less than 60 000km's on it is impossible. However, there were a handfull of them in the US.
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Originally Posted by Karma
If you have to pay additional PST it may work out to be the same price as in Canada. But the question is can you find the exact car your looking for in Canada? I couldn't- black on black, brembos, 6mt, navi, areo aka every option with less than 60 000km's on it is impossible. However, there were a handfull of them in the US.
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Originally Posted by zeadlots
Assuming the doller is on par this does not mean the bank will give you a 1 for 1 ratio... they take their cut in about a 3-4% ratio
So 25000USD=26000CAN with 4% bank rate
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If negotiations with your bank fail - just call the closest calforex (www.calforex.com). They have by far the very best exchange rates for the average consumer. I was going to go with calforex before my banker told me he would do his best to match. He came close enough...so I completed my US purchase through my bank (RBC).
In the end I think I saved a few hundred bucks...but that's few hundred bucks you could use for mods
...or maintenance
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