[Vwdiesel] VW Lupo Age Query 15 yrs +++

[Mike & Coreen Smith]

15 yrs or older. (for Canada)..... Thems' the rules man. (25 for most of the
USA....California is even more complicated.

It would take me too long to explain it all, but Canada Customs & the local
DMV both say so.

No way around it w/o 10's of thousands of dollars in possible mods, and even
then, no guarantee.
Believe me when I tell you this, as I have been active on the
www.minimania.com website for 3 years
and have been involved in or read HUNDREDS of threads on this very subject.
See these 2 links to get you started.

http://www.ccra-adrc.gc.ca/E/pub/cp/rc4140/rc4140-e.html
http://www.riv.ca/english/html/how_to_import.html


Mike, Coreen & Corey Smith
699 Rte 616 Keswick Ridge
NB
Canada
E6L 1T1
----- Original Message -----
From: "Area31 Research Facility" <stephensrw at stn.net>
To: "Mike & Coreen Smith" <ve9aa at nbnet.nb.ca>; <vwdiesel at vwfans.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 9:38 AM
Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] VW Lupo Age Query for Mark or anyone !


> Mike,
>
> I'm a little confused.  Who prevents one from purchasing any damn car
abroad
> they desire and paying all the taxes (which can get pretty expensive) and
> bringing it in to Canada?  You must be talking about only the cars allowed
> in WITHOUT taxes due to so called Free-Trade.
>
> I know that in order to actually liscense a foregn car it must be
compliant
> with Canadian emission and safety requirements but cars are imported by
> private citizens and then modified as the law requires all the time. In
this
> regard, I would think newer cars will more likely be compliant as found
than
> the older ones.
>
> A car would not need compliance to sit in a collector's private display
like
> a museum.
>
> Rob
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike & Coreen Smith" <ve9aa at nbnet.nb.ca>
> To: <vwdiesel at vwfans.com>
> Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 8:16 AM
> Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] VW Lupo Age Query for Mark or anyone !
>
>
> > Hi Hagar et al.
> > Still going to be way too new for the North American Market I'm afraid
:-(
> > Newest we can import here (from anywhere) is built before August 1990
> >
> > 45kms= ~ 27.9 miles
> > 1 liter=0.21978 gallons (imp)
> > 27.9/0.21978 = 126.945MPG (imp)
> >
> > Even a SMART car 799cc Diesel won't do that kind of mileage ~!~! (I
think
> > they top out @ 80MPG with a feather foot)
> >
> > Mike in Lobster Land
> >
> >
> > Mike, Coreen & Corey Smith
> > 699 Rte 616 Keswick Ridge
> > NB
> > Canada
> > E6L 1T1
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "H . Hagar." <h_hagar at prcn.org>
> > To: <vwdiesel at vwfans.com>
> > Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 11:35 PM
> > Subject: [Vwdiesel] VW Lupo Age Query for Mark or anyone !
> >
> >
> > > Interesting lil wee car that Lupo !
> > > Cheers,
> > > Mike
> > >
> > >
> > > Here comes Hagar anyone. :      Mike in Lobster Land   I talked to my
> Lupo
> > friend in
> > > Denmark  today for about two hours about the Lupo.
> > >
> > > More to come stay TUNED.  ---- figure out 45 Km on a Litre for
> > me ---first.
> > >
> > > Hagar.
> > >
> > > PS : The guy was a compulsory write down type --just like Hagar.   It
> > started as Arosa in
> > > 1997 mar. name changed to Lupo   and production was stopped a couple
of
> > months ago.
> > >
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