"Osiris - I can haz Euro spec?" (o51r15)
09/09/2015 at 02:16 • Filed to: None
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"Osiris - I can haz Euro spec?" (o51r15)
09/09/2015 at 02:16 • Filed to: None | 1
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Dr. Zoidberg, I mean. His post just a few below this one.
Being that I am I’ve now been in Spain for just over a couple months, I haven’t really figured out what European car I want to get. I mean, yea. If I knew that I was spending a substantial amount of time here, I’d go an finance a Seat Leon TDi right now. No questions about it. The thing is though, I don’t want to be stuck with a car that still needs paying off when my time here ends. I’m not sure if the USAF is going to keep me in Europe or send me back to the states, so making payments on a car that’s parked in Spain that can’t be legally imported until 2030 (or the NHTSA get’s their heads out of their asses and allows us to import things) doesn’t really make sense. So I’ve been scouring a site that’s basically the Spanish equivalent of Craigslist. It’s !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . It’s pretty awesome. I’ve basically got my search looking exclusively for cars built between 1980 and 1991. ‘91 is as high as I want to go because that’ll be the 25 year mark when I leave Spain. So, I started with looking for an Audi Sport Quattro (called Audi Coupe Quattro’s out here apparently). Great price, lower kilometers, and kept in decent shape. Their a little ways away but I have no problem with a road trip. especially if that road trips ends up with me in a nice, new (to me) Euro sports car. But then I had a thought, what else is there here? So I ended up looking at all cars built between 1980 and 1991 and I think I may have found it. A late 80’s, early ‘90’s Ford Escort Turbo RS. I would post pictures but the firewall at work stops me for some reason. But holy crap does this car look sexy. One that I found was white with some white aftermarket rims thrown onto it as well. It has 140K kilometers which I Google’d the math and comes out to 86ish thousand miles. But here’s the kicker, the seller only wants 5K euro. That seems a little low to me for an American sports car. So I looked at some more. They’re all priced relatively the same. Hell, I could save a grand or two and get a not Turbo RS one with the same body style and about the same mileage. It’s crazy how cheap they sell cars here. I love it!
So, yea. I’m kinda enjoying Spain (and Europe) as a whole right now. Now if only I had the funds. Time to sell the
shit
econo box Renault Megane I bought to hold us over until we got out Explorer!
cazzyodo
> Osiris - I can haz Euro spec?
09/09/2015 at 09:04 |
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This is fun...I’m way too distracted now haha.
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Osiris - I can haz Euro spec?
> cazzyodo
09/09/2015 at 09:51 |
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To address your links:
1. Don’t tempt me. The wife would be pissed!
2. Damn that’s some low km’s! Not sure how far Valencia is from me, but who doesn’t love a road trip?
3. I hadn’t even thought about the Sierra. I’ve missed so much!
I love looking at Craigslist type things. It makes me sad and happy at the same time!
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cazzyodo
> Osiris - I can haz Euro spec?
09/09/2015 at 10:06 |
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Where are you in Spain? I went to Madrid in high school and my brother is studying abroad in Barcelona right now. Valencia is east of Madrid. Not sure where in Valencia that thing is given it could be the city or province.
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Osiris - I can haz Euro spec?
> cazzyodo
09/09/2015 at 10:11 |
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I’m in Morón de La Frontera in the Andalucía province. I'll be here for another 20 months and then either somewhere else in Europe or sent back to the states.
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cazzyodo
> Osiris - I can haz Euro spec?
09/09/2015 at 10:19 |
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Valencia is a heckuva haul then. We studied the different provinces in high school before our trip so I at least know that much (and Google confirmed).
Have you found out if there are any exceptions to the 25 year import restriction if you are deployed abroad?
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Osiris - I can haz Euro spec?
> cazzyodo
09/09/2015 at 10:24 |
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I was hoping there would be something of a military clause for importing but apparently that was removed a good long while ago. So I'm stuck with the same restrictions as the rest of America. I would have loved to be able to get a Seat Leon. But that's just not going to happen.
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cazzyodo
> Osiris - I can haz Euro spec?
09/09/2015 at 10:29 |
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That sucks...I really like the Seat Leon as well haha. Would have been sick if you could have ended up with one in the states.
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Osiris - I can haz Euro spec?
> cazzyodo
09/10/2015 at 01:03 |
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Yea. It would have been awesome. Driving around in a car that no one else has. Oh well. Maybe I'll just move to Europe after the military or something. Ha ha.