Guides
Two kinds. Model guides tell you what a specific car costs to land and what breaks. Import guides explain the parts of the process that cost people money.
Model guides
The default American import, and for a good reason — Ford sells it in Europe, so it has a WLTP figure and the NoVA is merely painful rather than absurd.
550 hp from a straight six, 2026 North American Car of the Year, and no European homologation — which is the whole story of importing one.
Sold in Europe, so the paperwork is straightforward. Mid-engined, left-hand drive either way, and cheaper in the States than here even after tax.
Electric, so NoVA is zero. The exemption is worth more than the shipping, and it makes the arithmetic on a big American pickup work for the first time.
Two metres wide before the mirrors. Measure your garage, then read this.
Never officially sold here, parts are the ongoing question, and it is still the most fun you can have importing something under €90,000.
Import guides
The full NoVA calculation on the SIXPACK Scat Pack, line by line, and the single piece of paperwork that swings the answer by €70,000.
If your car has no European CO₂ figure, Austria invents one from engine power. What that costs, and what to do about it.
One is cheaper, one protects the paint. The decision depends on the car rather than the budget.
A three-year-old car often lands cheaper than the tax on a new one. The crossover point is not where most people assume.
Every document, photograph and delay from a Phoenix dealer lot to a Vienna registration office.
Two and a half metres of American SUV meets a Viennese Tiefgarage. What to measure before you order one.
We can price anything road-registered in the United States, guide or no guide.
