New to the Forum - CAN/US Purchase?
 

Hello everybody, I am new to this forum and would like to introduce myself.

I live in Canada and I own a 2002 Mazda Protégé. I have been drooling over the RX-8 for almost a year now. It is good to find a place where the information and knowledge are concentrated in one forum.

My only inconvenient with the RX-8 is that I can't imagine fitting my hockey bag into it: the trunk is big enough, no question there, but the trunk door isn't big enough, and the protruding transmission column in the back seat guarantees I wouldn't be tossing my hockey bag & stick there, like I do with my Protégé.

Besides this, I think the car's brilliant.

I have a question: I might be interested in purchasing a car in the US and bringing it back to Canada as my personal vehicle, and I would like to know of any special rules, paperwork, fees applicable to that situation. So basically if anyone has experience doing a CAN/US car purchase, would be very helpful if you could share your wisdom.

Maybe by summer :fingersx: I can move into an RX-8, and I can stop driving my Protégé like a race car!

I've put my hockey bag in the back or passenger seat as well as my sticks.

As for importing...there is a website like riv.ca or something. Basically you will have to pay duty and then later have the car "repaired". It will need daytime running lamps and a higher impact bumper.

It might and I stress might be cheaper to find one locally.

Good luck with the purchase and import!

Top sticky in the Canada section.

Why are you bothering the rest of the world with this?