i personally live in cali, but my friend lives in SC and he was looking to import one, i know it's basically impossible to do it here, but i didn't want to jump the gun and say the same thing to him...has anybody imported an FD to south carolina, or do you know anybody that has? thnx, Garrett

 

Import regulations are at the Federal level, not state level. Therefore, it doesn't matter what state you live in here in the USA as far what you can or cannot do for car importing.

 

k man, thnx...just seeing if anybody has done it yet, but thanks for the heads up

 

Technically its not illegal to import a car into this country. It's the DMV regulations by state that effect getting one legal.

 

true. It's technically legal.

Problem is to do it legally, you need a federally licensed legal importer.

There are no legal importers that import FDs.

 

Just curious, if there was enough demand, would a legal importer consider importing FDs, or is it too complicated? Just a question out of curiousity...

 

The one person I've heard of legally getting one here took something like 4 years and the value(brand new Spirit R $$$$$) of the car in lawyers and appeals..

And in the end his importer stole his seats and took the car to a track day in Florida.

He's on this forum, username 95and02 or something like that.

So no..paying $45,000+ and waiting 4+ years isn't worth it when we already have 10,000 here.


Also, I'm not 100% positive his car is even all that legal, but it's a Spirit R, so it's safe to assume it's not a driving car anyway.

 

All you need to do is become an RI (Registered Importer) (NOT EASY TO DO) and you can import anything. The issue is with RI's they have 90 days to make the car federally legal which can cost $30k+