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Cars that you love that you can't buy in your country. (pg. 7)
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| Moongoose |
Oh yes, 7.3L Mercedes AMG V12 with about 612 HP. Nice car, especially the roadster :cool:
| quote: | Originally posted by Slylee
my point is that if u have enough money, u can prob get it in the U.S. |
let me tell you a story about two friends who wanted to buy a car not made in the US, lets call them Bill and Paul. About 20 years ago, what they wanted the most in thw whole wide world was a brand new Porsche 959 (and frankly who can blame them, that car was sick :crazy: ). They went to Germany, bought the cars but when they tried to import them into the US they weren't allowed to, because those nasty German supercars were to filthy (emissions wise) to be allowed into the green US. Despite all their money and ninja lawyers (Bill and Paul were to say the least, filthy rich...think how much money Scrooge McDuck has and then imagine that each one of them has lots more) it would take them amny many years after another Bill signed some sort of law that allowed these precious cars into by classifying them as a part of history or something (cant translate that into english more accurately atm i dont have time :) |
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| Leif |
| quote: | Originally posted by Moongoose
let me tell you a story about two friends who wanted to buy a car not made in the US, lets call them Bill and Paul. About 20 years ago, what they wanted the most in thw whole wide world was a brand new Porsche 959 (and frankly who can blame them, that car was sick :crazy: ). They went to Germany, bought the cars but when they tried to import them into the US they weren't allowed to, because those nasty German supercars were to filthy (emissions wise) to be allowed into the green US. Despite all their money and ninja lawyers (Bill and Paul were to say the least, filthy rich...think how much money Scrooge McDuck has and then imagine that each one of them has lots more) it would take them amny many years after another Bill signed some sort of law that allowed these precious cars into by classifying them as a part of history or something (cant translate that into english more accurately atm i dont have time :) |
Ah, I believe the US now lets you sign the importation as a "show car" or something if it's old, expensive or rare enough. |
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| biznology |
same ing thread as above lol!
if you love cars, and i do love the new GTR, watch the new Corvette ZR1 Supercharged set the new Nurburg lap time(street car, lol)...i am absolutely not a fanboy, but that man can ing drive! the bottoming out and catching air are amazing...
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| 3F05Q |
| quote: | Originally posted by Moongoose
let me tell you a story about two friends who wanted to buy a car not made in the US, lets call them Bill and Paul. About 20 years ago, what they wanted the most in thw whole wide world was a brand new Porsche 959 |
I had one of Bill's fuel injectors for a while.
Anyway.. I'm not sure if you can still import R32 Skylines into the US since the Motorex screwup. Maybe it's just the R34s... don't remember now. At any rate... if you can't import the R32 EASILY... then that's what I'll pick. |
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| ScuL |
| quote: | Originally posted by Audious
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German plates in the US. That's awesome :p
Question out of interest...
How many of you have actually >ever< seen a car with European plates driving in the US?
I assume it's quite rare.
A few weeks ago I saw a car with Connecticut plates driving around Amsterdam. :) |
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| adi_hanson |
I used to have one of these
proper pocket rocket |
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| polkovnik86 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Moongoose
Oh yes, 7.3L Mercedes AMG V12 with about 612 HP. Nice car, especially the roadster :cool:
let me tell you a story about two friends who wanted to buy a car not made in the US, lets call them Bill and Paul. About 20 years ago, what they wanted the most in thw whole wide world was a brand new Porsche 959 (and frankly who can blame them, that car was sick :crazy: ). They went to Germany, bought the cars but when they tried to import them into the US they weren't allowed to, because those nasty German supercars were to filthy (emissions wise) to be allowed into the green US. Despite all their money and ninja lawyers (Bill and Paul were to say the least, filthy rich...think how much money Scrooge McDuck has and then imagine that each one of them has lots more) it would take them amny many years after another Bill signed some sort of law that allowed these precious cars into by classifying them as a part of history or something (cant translate that into english more accurately atm i dont have time :) |
Actually the story behind 959 is that US Government asked Porsche for a 959 that they could crash for the safety standards, but Porsche didn't want to give them any. So what Bill did was he got a team of engineers to design a program to simulate the crash test of the 959, so that then Clinton signed a bill for those cars to be allowed in. |
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| bas |
| quote: | Originally posted by ScuL
Question out of interest...
How many of you have actually >ever< seen a car with European plates driving in the US?
I assume it's quite rare. |
I see it pretty often. |
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| aNYthing |
| quote: | Originally posted by biznology
same ing thread as above lol!
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Yeah... there are some people *cough* L.E.N *cough*, who are quite lacking in the imagination department but are quite good at thread hijacking/cloning. :rolleyes: :tongue3
but.... there's room for two.
Burger King & McDonalds
Pepsi & Coke
Trojan & Durex
Scotts & Charmin
My thread & that ty rip off of my idea :D |
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| L.E.N. |
| quote: | Originally posted by aNYthing
Yeah... there are some people *cough* L.E.N *cough*, who are quite lacking in the imagination department but are quite good at thread hijacking/cloning. :rolleyes: :tongue3
but.... there's room for two.
Burger King & McDonalds
Pepsi & Coke
Trojan & Durex
Scotts & Charmin
My thread & that ty rip off of my idea :D |
Well
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| infinity HiGH |
| quote: | Originally posted by bas
A Citoren or Pugeot. |
Or Alfa Romeo. |
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| aNYthing |
| quote: | Originally posted by L.E.N.
Well
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cmon man, I got nutin but respect for ya - especiall after those colon-bustin' recipes for most yummy (on picture) food evar. That bluecheese burger still gives me da munchies of Harrold and Kumar-ian proportions. :crazy: :eyespop: :toothless |
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