Hi Gofra

Well done

nice one!
Fiona, were you at croft when it got rained off?
Im also a member of lotus on track although I part company with my elise on sunday! There is nothing better for a raw driving experience than an elise/exige in my opinion. Iv'e got a few track days booked for next year, didnt think id have a different car to do them in tho! Although the abarth will be a much more comfortable for next years nurburgring trip! (I had to buy a cushion this year!)
anyway,
Im Andy (maccy), 25 from County Durham
part ex-ed my elise and smart car for a red abarth with assetto kit.

hi all, my names John , 22 and from west yorkshire. previous cars where a fabia 1.4 which then changed to a 1.9 sporting mjet grande punto which i had for 1 year 3 months (actualy still got it till the 11th dec) then thats getting part ex'ed for my brand new abarth gp 

cant wait!!!!

Im Alex, just turned 25 and a Brit living in Holland.

My car history started off with a Ford Sierra 1.8 (mucho fun @ 17yrs old), I then used a Ford Ka for a while before buying my first new car, a Ford Fiesta!

Then I became wise to all things Italian and got myself the black 98 Spider you can in my sig, followed a year later by the new Red one.  That was a complete lemon so Alfa changed it FOC for the White one!   The White and Black Spider have just been joined by the wee Abarth 500.  I cant see myself ever owning anything other than Italian cars, except maybe for an Aston Martin at some point.

Hello Redmirror and thanks for the very useful info!

I'd be very interested in hearing more on how the registration taxes were determined on your car since I haven't found your car on the Finnish Customs registration tax statistics. I'll write you a personal message later on when I have more time.

In relation to the prices in different countries it is indeed so that the tax free prices in Germany are not as cheap as in some countries which have high registration taxes. So far I've had price offers from Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria. Nieuwkoop in the Netherlands didn't offer any discounts and at the moment the cheapest tax free price has been offered by an Austrian dealer. So it might be that I will order my car from there. The problem for me at the moment is that I have to sell my old car first before I order a new one and that is not easy since market is very slow in the current economic climate.

By the way is the white one on this pic your car:



The source of the pic is this topic:

https://www.abarthforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,266.0.html

Hi, I'm redmirror.
Portti, I saw your posts. I also live in Finland as married to a Finn. I have already imported a 500 Abarth back in October (the first one  the only one?). I guess you know when importing a new car you better pick a source country with high car taxes so to get a low net export price. So forget about Germany. I got mine from Holland where the net price is € 14285  . With the usual options (airco, leather, interscope, 17 inch) the Finnish after-tax price was € 26650 (hintalähde € 23810). Dealer was Nieuwkoop (www.auto-nieuwkoop.nl). Good service, thrustfull, but unfortunately little room for negotiation, although that might have changed in recent months. And a high SS price of € 3750 (I assume no car tax on this, only VAT). But then you could drive on the way back to a German dealer and get the kit for € 3000.
 

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Portti, let me know what you info you need, could send you the tax decision for instance

That would be great. I've sent you a personal message.

hi all we are a car mad couple from scotland we have a 500 and a AGP and a v70 volvo oopps did i tell you we had a volvo anyway site is great keep up the good work