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Originally Posted by pony13ca
You can import them. You have to pay 6.1% duty on top of the federal and provincial taxes. You have to pay a RIV fee of $200, and you have to get the DRLs and the spedo changed to Kilometers. I also heard rumor that if you can't get a recall clearence letter in the US for the car you buy, you have to pay Porsche Canada $500 to get it.
You would have to get a pretty sweet deal on a US car to make it worthwhile.
As far as the wrong side of the road, I think I could figure it out!! :-)
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The main thing about buying in the US and not in Canada is not really money. It is the selection. You can find pretty much anything on the color you want, with the options you want and on a certain price/mileage you want. No way you have the same in Canada.
When I got mine I found the perfect car for me in California. Flew down there, got the car and drove it back to Ottawa, ON. 5,000km trip. Awesome trip by the way.
And yes you can import pretty much any car to Canada, especially now they took care of the stupid bumper regulations that were slightly different between the two countries.
By the way when I got mine they forgot to charge me duty so I ended up paying GST/PST only.
CR