Old Top Gear 1992 - American Imports

Florida is now the fifth most popular foreign destination for British tourists, and rather than spending those spare dollars on inflatable Don Johnson dolls, more and more people are returning home with a car in a typical British traffic jam on the left, and driving It doesn't matter and there are hundreds of clubs that help with spare parts, but best of all, car prices in the United States are lower than even a very low price. This is a Mercury Cougar, it's 3 years old, has 30,000 miles on it, so its 3.8L engine barely runs. It has power, now let's see if you can calculate how much you would have to pay for it.

The body after its not-too-smooth life under the Florida sun is blemish-free and the interior has never been ravaged by even a muddy pit. let alone a playful labrador with alap pcia well I'll tell you £45,000 and don't think I'm cheating either, this is just a standard model in a standard dealership which is in Fort Lauderdale, there are thousands of cars like this and thousands of dealerships in all over the state now, if the idea of ​​a Mercury Cougar seems a little boring and doesn't really appeal to you and you want to set yourself up as the local villain, then you absolutely have to get a pretty inappropriate title.

Lincoln Town Car, that one costs just £7,000, although of course the violin cases are extra, but before you jump into the buyer's Hot Seat, stick your foot in your mouth and smoke in advance, be careful because waiting even with more You can't wait for the car to arrive. Britain will be someone from customs and excise duty on the puma may have cost you £45,000 to buy approximately £800 for shipping and £100 to insure en route, but the bills don't really start to pile up until it is safely insured in Blighty first the British government will add a 10% import tax because you dared to buy a car made outside the US, then the vehicle valuation unit will decide how much the car is worth in Britain and add another tax from 5% to whatever figure they come up with and then you pay 17 1.5% VAT on the whole lot, the total is therefore £7,415 which is still cheap but thanks to the support policy and delivery of Her Majesty's finest, no longer the bargain it once was, however it is made to love when it comes to mechanical engineering, our transatlantic cousins ​​prefer the bar door approach, plus, driving an American car In England it's a bit out of the ordinary, telling someone you drive a Ford Granada and, let's face it, no one will be all that impressed, but what if you said you owned a Ford Thunderbird Turbo Coupe?

This one is 3 years old, made 49,000 Mi. Comes with air conditioning, power seats, cruise control. I think they call it fully loaded here and all they want for it is £3,750 of course. once you've paid the tax and the attack tax and the tax of a tax of a tax, that 3750 becomes 6300 still not the worst buy in the world What if you don't need a sensible saloon? What if like me? I'm still single, well this is a Camaro Z28, it's got a 5L V8, it's 4 years old, it's done 40,000M and all they want is £5000. A few more of these and you'll be on the first boat to Milford Haven.

The problem is that you can buy a Camaro for cheap in England, it would cost almost 8 thousand dollars to drive it and that is expensive even for what would undoubtedly be the flashiest car in town now that I have many friends who work in the building construction and that sort of thing and they always complain that there is a lack of options when it comes to van tracks, well here they cost 10p, this Ford is 6 months old and they are asking £75,000 for Now surely you can buy one truck for that kind of money in England, but I'd like to bet it wouldn't have the same amount of features as this one.

Just come and look inside, now you have to ignore the A vulgar tradition sheathes the pleon joinery and this wooden Ed moulding, but you can't help but be impressed by the list of standard equipment. I have air conditioning, stereo cruise control, power windows and central locking, oh yeah, and it has a 5L engine, so if any of the other cars have tickled your fancy, just push them back and this thing will have the power to take them to the dock side. In fact, a Brit bought six trucks at once without testing any of them well until now.

We've seen some pretty sensible mid-range cars that can even repatriate a roll here if you want, but what if you're buying from a Sho chain? That's where the Oldsmobile Catalyst comes into play. Mark has the easiest job here. The world sells cars like this to people like me. How much do you ask for them? Mark around $4,000, so that's a little over £2,000. an old uncut convertible from 1972 uh, it has the original 350 engine, air conditioning, power top, it's a good car, do you sell many of them to England? For sure yes. I export quite a few of the old convertibles and Corvettes, it's easy, how is it done?

Get this right, uh, after the customer decides on a car, it's simply a phone call to my transport company, they pick up the car and it's exported directly to England and the cost is around $800, so that £500 exactly is difficult to deal with with the English. Well, they just realize the good value and make a really good bargain, they're tough, they realize the value of cars and you know, like I told you before, they have more moves than John Travolta. You have to be interested in a car like this, if you're not interested in a car like this, it's because you don't have a soul.

I mean, could you look at that? All that's left now is for me to find the right chrome. button and enter Florida mode unfortunately you cannot buy this car because I was here first and I am going to do it and also since it is more than 20 years old Customs will approve it without loading any car tank