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Originally Posted by Want.FR-S
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 |
On this page:
http://www.tc.gc.ca/roadsafety/safev...planations.htm
Go to section 9 and the immobilizer part. There was some manufacturer funny-business about the immobilizers that made them non-compliant unless they were modified, and if you see the part (won't let me cut-and-paste for some reason) about how manufacturers claim that it will affect safety and warranty, how many shops would do it with liability risks hanging over their head?
The problem was with whether their immobilizers (purely electronics) were compliant or not was by manufacturer's self disclosure.
It was a bit of a controversy in Subaru groups when there was about a $10k difference between US and Canadian STIs (even before our dollar was as high as it is now...). They may have been called out by agencies due to public outcry since that time though...