Wrangler delivery van

"GreenN_Gold" (GreenN_Gold)
11/14/2014 at 17:03 • Filed to: None

You can get a Wrangler "delivery van" in Austria now (no rear seats, and no rear windows). According to !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , this configuration allows them to bypass the country's Value-Added-Tax, which adds a hefty 20% onto the price.

So, great news!! Now you can get your wife's anniversary present delivered all the way up to your remote chalet in the Austrian Alps!

DISCUSSION (8)

As Du Volant > GreenN_Gold
11/14/2014 at 17:07

Funny how turning a passenger vehicle into a "cargo vehicle" gets it past the taxes in Austria, while turning a cargo vehicle into a "passenger vehicle" does the same in the US.

I'm referring to the Ford Transit Connect (see the Cargo Van Conversion section): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Tran…

crown victor victoria > As Du Volant
11/14/2014 at 17:28

Ford got nailed by Customs on those Baltimore conversions, though. They passed a ruling that closes that loophole, essentially, and makes the commercial Transit Connects subject to the 25% tax, at least until Ford gets the ruling overturned.

Plus the current Transits are being built in Spain instead of Turkey, so Ford is now lobbying for a free trade agreement with the EU, while also asking that the Chicken Tax be kept in place as a protection against Japanese manufacturers.

http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2013/09/u-s-cu…