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Hi Ashin,

My advice: Don´t do it.

I live in Austria and Germany and I know some informations about importing of US Cars. Some people import Cars from the US to Europe, that is not the big deal. You have to take care and change some things of the cars, it is possible but it is too much work and bullshit for a man who is not familar with this process and also not suitable for a BMW 325i.



Only some concerns (Belgium, Germany, Austria they all have similar regulations and rules, so I think if it is necessary for Germany for Belgium too):

Change the orange side lights
Maybe problems with your Navigation
Mile / Kilometers speedometer
a lot of Paper work (paper work sucks in Europe much more than in US - in my opinion)

Resell-price of your car, well a Corvette or a Dodge US-cars you can sell them at a lower price in Belgium or Germany but a BMW will be much tougher to sell.

Anyway at least you also have to pay a lot of fees and taxes when you import the car. I estimate around of 30% to 50%(depends on final destination country, for example Germany about 30%, Austria about 45%) of taxes of the current car worth. Also the transportation will be around 1000 or 2000USD from the US to Europe.

Here you can check out what a BMW 325i costs at the moment from a BMW Dealer in Germany(Belgium will be a similar price maybe some percents more):

http://www.bmw.de/de/topics/gebrauch...genboerse.html

I have gave you the direct link, because everything in German.

And here also a direct link for Z4M

http://www.bmw.de/de/topics/gebrauch...genboerse.html

Of course only four cars, because a seven or eight year cars are not popular for dealers, because they are committed to give warranties - private sellers aren´t so the most of the cars will be offered from private sellers, for example:

http://fahrzeuge.autoscout24.de/?aty...rchmask-Button


One more estimate of mine: A 10000USD priced used car in US will cost at the end about 13000 to 14000Euro in Germany. 10000USD are about 8000Euro.

Please mind for Oldtimers there are much easier rules.

Anyway I would recommed to buy a car at a local BMW dealer in Germany. Or rent a BMW for several month.

Best luck.