I was browsing The Porsche Exchange's site when I noticed this.

http://porsche-exchange.porschedeale...hp?newsid=3355
It's the first time I've seen a dealer post such a notice on their site. PCNA cracking down?

 

They are close to me... lately due to the dollar decline I noticed that lots of Europeans are buying cars and sending them to Europe for profit.. big profit...
maybe that is why....

 

Uh, is that even enforceable????

Perhaps don't mention it to them when you're buying it.



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I don't think they care what you do after you buy it. They just don't want some guy from France asking them if they can ship it to them. Porsche may have also asked them to put this on the website to protect their European dealers.

 

Maybe also for Canada to protect their Canadian dealers

 

+1 Totally agree.
It's gotta be the reason.

 

Now I know I'm getting old. I remember when PCNA would not service grey market cars imported to the US. They even got congress, the EPA and NHTSA to pass plenty of regulations to make it difficult to import grey market cars to the US. I sold my last Porsche to a Canadian who spent a fortune getting it imported and still sold it for a profit in Canada. I guess we're a third world country now.

 

Not surprising, Porsches cost 2x here what they do in the States. If you drive it like 1k miles, it's considered used and when imported you can avoid most of the duties/taxes.

 

There are a lot of cars bought at the used auction, per a driver there, that are being purchased for Eastern European consumption....by organizations......

Anyway, supply and demand in the US, because of this, will likely make the 996TT go up in value despite anyone with a 993TT saying it cannot possibly happen. (joke there, ok, but probably true).

JB

 

In about 2 -3 years and suspect it still might make sense to bring my '03 turbo with me.

Of course a lot depends on exchange rates - but currently it looks attractive.

 

When I worked for Porsche the rule was that any dealer caught selling "new" cars overseas would be penalized from PCNA in the form of loss of alocations. If you did it more then once rumor had it you could loose your franchize. They take it very seriously. Now if a person bought it, registered it, and taxes are paid in their state, it then becomes a used vehicle and is eligible for export without any dealer violation because they are no longer involved.

 

Yea guys here is the difference, a US 2002 TT will sell for what 60-65 K ish....The same Canadian car will sell for 85 to 90ish,the US is the cheapest place on earth to but a TT. To give you an idea, my girl is an import/export agent, She tells me everyday she sends US PARCs to Germany.They are 100% trying to protect that countries respective dealerships.

 

Gentlemen,

Thanks to everyone for their input. Much appreciated.

 

Lol, let me know when you're coming back and we'll just swap cars - I'm prolly coming back to the States on the same timeframe.

 

Yes...its sucks thaty is happaning...I think all major manufatures to this...

My freind jsut bought 08 997TT here and paid 328k USD for it here (customs 40k)...so around 290k just for the car...crazy price if we compare to US ones...

LoL fully loaded S500 cost 154 EURO here..which is like 250k USD...

You guys are lucky to have such cheap car over there...