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Originally Posted by Dimman
The hilarious thing about the companies trying to ban new imports on super-minor safety and security is the flip side: I own a JDM Supra, it is provincially inspected and insurable as soon as I pass emissions.
You would think that the steering wheel ON THE WRONG FREAKIN' SIDE would be an issue. Not at all. But a little electronic difference in the immobilizer of new cars. Trouble. Go figure.
I can't really complain too loudly due to the availability of inexpensive JDM goodness.
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Actually, I think it is not that hard to import cars from USA into Canada, whether new or old. Transport Canada published a guideline about how to import cars into Canada, and here is a website that I googled that lists the steps:
http://www.importcartocanada.info/
With the latest currency rate, I would see there would be a flock of people who will go to US to import cars. I know my colleague did that a while back (2009?) and they form a team of people to buy Subaru's (outbacks, tribecas, and others I think) and import them into Canada. According to him, he saved about 5K from the overall process.
Here is the website from Transport Canada:
http://www.tc.gc.ca/eng/roadsafety/s...-index-445.htm