defprun

A guy I know wants to go through all the BS of importing a Sierra Sapphire Cosworth from england. All you have to do is wait until its 15 years old or older, and than it is emissions exempt, meaning that you can import the car in.



Americans have it "easier" meaning that, if you bring a car over, and you can make it pass an emissions test, than you can drive it. There's guys in Alaska driving 1993-94 Ford Escort Cossies, while the only people driving those in Canada lived in the UK and had it imported because its their daily driver.



I couldn't see why canadians couldnt do the same thing, but I guess because the car was not set to be sold here at the time, it cant be licenced to drive here until the 15 years is over and its considered a "classic". Which makes it emissions exempt, cheaper on insurance...but a bitch to have insure.

TYSON

But that's the only car we make!

defprun

We make the Freestar! YAY! It's a van though...LOOPHOLE.

Eric Happy Meal

anyways, you guys haev the 15 year rule, we have the 20 year rule. but what they dont tell you is that you can only drive the car for a certain number of miles per year. its something like 5K miles. and if its not 20 years for us, its 25. i have bad memory in terms of things i dont care much about.

defprun

How would they keep track of mileage on your car?



Id disconnect the speedo, **** that ****.

diablone

That's funny...you know absolutly nothing about what you're saying.



Passing emissions is the last step of importing a vehicle into the US, and the easiest. There are alot of imported cars here in the US...but most of them aren't brought over legally.



http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/cars/rules/import/

TYSON

We MAKE lots of cars, none of them can be considered Canadian.

defprun

I didnt say that it ONLY had to pass emissions to get into the country. I didn't know exactly so i didnt get into the **** i didnt know..



All I know is that cars from other countries have different emissions standards than we do and they have to be fixed up before they drive here.



Thanks for the link.



Tyson, I consider the bloody freestar canadian because its made in Canada.

TYSON

So's the:



Civic

Pilot

MDX

Caravan

Pacifica

300

Magnum

F-150

Grand Marquis

Marauder

Monte Carlo

Grand Prix

LeSabre

Silverado

Equinox

Sierra

Vitara





These are only the ones I've seen with my own eyes. There may be more.

ColinRX7

Half the trucking industry is produced in Canada.



I've gone into factories in Guelph to shuffle production machines around that manufacture CAT diesel motors, Holest turbines and turbo housings, I've seen alot of ****.



Mostly GM, Ford, and CAT.