What Next? (Take 2)

Eventually, after danish VAT of 25% and BMW dealer price increase in october 2003, even a modestly specced E46 325Ci M Sport turned out to be too expensive (45 000€), atleast when you look what you would get with that sort of money. With the same kind of money you could get really nice used one (E46 330Ci M sport SMG 22 000€ or E46 M3 32 000€) from germany with all those first and most expensive kilometers behind them.

Problem was that finnish law required that I would have to use the car for 6 months on denmark before returning to finland, otherwise I would have to pay normal and astronomically high registration tax. Been there and done that once before already (and all I got was this lousy T-shirt!) and it was a scenario I did not fancy a bit. So I had to find a workaround or way to "optimize" taxes.

So I started to look alternatives, namely buying a used BMW from germany and then registering it to somewhere. Scenarios were:

1. Buy used car from germany and register it to Denmark (very expensive!)
2. Buy used car from germany and keep it on german registry (will not work since I got contract extension which prohibits getting special permit from police)
3. Buy used car from germany and move to sweden and register car there!

Option 1. was out of question, I would have to pay around 800€ / month just to keep the car in danish registry as long as the car is in denmark. Get a grip...

Option 2. would not work because my contract was extended. This option would have worked with one year contract.

Option 3... This is the cheapest laternative, perhaps bit more work. I would not be able to drive my car in denmark since it is prohibited to use foreign registered car if you live in denmark. But it is not a great loss, believe me!

Onwards to next page.