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When I lived in the US ten years ago some of the luxury dealers (definitely BMW, I seem to recall Porsche too) had these programs where you’d buy a US-spec’d but take delivery of it in Europe. So you’d get exactly what you want, fly to Germany, drive it around there for a week, and then they’d ship it over. There was some reason why that ended up being cheaper than driving the equivalent car straight off the lot in the US though the reason escapes me now. When you factored in flights and other costs it netted out about the same, except you got to spend a week or so in Europe too.

Sadly it always remained aspirational as I never could quite bring myself to justify spending that much on a car I’d barely use.



It's not a new car when it's brought through customs, so you save a bunch on duties.


Do you know what name or search keywords to use to learn more about these offers?


'European Delivery' should get you started, that's what BMW uses.




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