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European Delivery - Too good to be true?
Hi! This is my first post, but i've been lurking around here since I fell in love with the E90. This will be the first BMW anyone in my family has ever bought... so some of this stuff is new to me. I saw on bmwusa.com a post about European Delivery. It seems like if I choose this option, I'll immediately save about $3k on the car, and use the savings to pay for airfare to Germany. Then I would receive complimentary European insurance for about two weeks, and free of charge shipment of the car to the US! The deal seems almost too good to be true. My best guess is that by going to Germany to pick the car up, I wont have to pay some sort of US new car Import tax, so BMW passes some of the savings onto the customer. But would I have to pay German sales tax and then an additional US tax? And in this case would European Delivery still be a worthwhile route? Because if by doing this option I get basically a free or very cheap trip to Europe, I cant see any reason not to do this! BTW - This is the best E90 forum I've found on the internet so far!! Awesome site  | | Reply » European Delivery - Too good to be true? |
Quote: Hi! This is my first post, but i've been lurking around here since I fell in love with the E90. This will be the first BMW anyone in my family has ever bought... so some of this stuff is new to me.
I saw on bmwusa.com a post about European Delivery. It seems like if I choose this option, I'll immediately save about $3k on the car, and use the savings to pay for airfare to Germany. Then I would receive complimentary European insurance for about two weeks, and free of charge shipment of the car to the US! The deal seems almost too good to be true.
My best guess is that by going to Germany to pick the car up, I wont have to pay some sort of US new car Import tax, so BMW passes some of the savings onto the customer. But would I have to pay German sales tax and then an additional US tax? And in this case would European Delivery still be a worthwhile route?
Because if by doing this option I get basically a free or very cheap trip to Europe, I cant see any reason not to do this!
BTW - This is the best E90 forum I've found on the internet so far!! Awesome site |
It is a pretty nice deal. You get the savings and usually you can negotiate better prices ontop of the savings with your dealer because it doesn't come out of the dealer's allocation. You don't pay anything in Germany and you pay the sales tax in your state as you'd do with any car if you state has taxation on cars. So yes the idea is you get a very nice trip to Europe but some people iwll just fly to Europe, get the car and fly back. The other cool thing is that you have to take delivery in Munich but you can drop off the car in certain other cities in Europe!
The only catch is you'll be without the car for about 3 months or so while the car is being shipped from europe to the US. Also if you are leasing I think you continue to pay for the car for these 3 months even though you are not actually driving it.
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Quote: It is a pretty nice deal. You get the savings and usually you can negotiate better prices ontop of the savings with your dealer because it doesn't come out of the dealer's allocation. You don't pay anything in Germany and you pay the sales tax in your state as you'd do with any car if you state has taxation on cars. So yes the idea is you get a very nice trip to Europe but some people iwll just fly to Europe, get the car and fly back. The other cool thing is that you have to take delivery in Munich but you can drop off the car in certain other cities in Europe!
The only catch is you'll be without the car for about 3 months or so while the car is being shipped from europe to the US. Also if you are leasing I think you continue to pay for the car for these 3 months even though you are not actually driving it. | With regards to leasing...
Don't forget that leasing is about the capitalized cost of the car (substantially lower via ED) and the residual value (which is based on the much higher US MSRP). You can still lease via ED and save money.
FIDOZOOM, don't neglect to notice that BMWUSA.com is only showing you the MSRP for ED. There's a much lower INVOICE price for ED. Available on this board with an easy search.
Commonly, deals for $1000-$1500 over ED invoice can be had. For example, back in 2002, I had a deal of that range over ED invoice, saving me about $5K on totally loaded E46 touring.
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You also want to find out if you will have to pay the Customs fee when it hits the US port. If the car doesn't have a license plate on it, it is assumed to be a brand new vehicle and will be hit with that fee. I think it is 1.5% of the purchase price.
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Quote: | You also want to find out if you will have to pay the Customs fee when it hits the US port. If the car doesn't have a license plate on it, it is assumed to be a brand new vehicle and will be hit with that fee. I think it is 1.5% of the purchase price. | European Delivery takes care of any and all registration fees in Germany, customs fees, insurance (first 2 weeks), shipping, marine insurance, wharfage, transportation, etc. The only thing that the customer has to pay for is his travel expenses.
-MrB
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I saw on bmwusa.com a post about European Delivery. It seems like if I choose this option, I'll immediately save about $3k on the car, and use the savings to pay for airfare to Germany. Then I would receive complimentary European insurance for about two weeks, and free of charge shipment of the car to the US! The deal seems almost too good to be true.
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Because if by doing this option I get basically a free or very cheap trip to Europe, I cant see any reason not to do this!
BTW - This is the best E90 forum I've found on the internet so far!! Awesome site | You need to check out the European Delivery forum. You can find a lot of helpful information there from choosing a dealer, negotiating the deal, planning your trip, experiences when in Europe, painful wait for redelivery, etc.
As has been posted above the savings to be had are greater than the ones listed on the BMW site. None of us who have done ED would ever think of paying ED MSRP, though the dealers here in Houston will have you believe otherwise. The local dealers do not negotiate. The go to dealer in SE TX is Garlyn Shelton in Bryan and the contact person is Ron Elms.
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