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I wonder what this means for us up in Norway. You can import a CT if it’s been owned for a given amount of time, by someone in America. After that you import it and it’s fully legal in Norway.. it’s pretty stupid, and I’m not sure if these laws will affect us the same way as EU countries.
There are several in the Czech Republic too, and there is a guy willing to import it and add EU lights for $200 000
Oh is that because it does the classic American thing of combining brake lights and indicators?
Some people have way too much money. There's so much more interesting things you could do with $200,000
One of, although not the only issue the EU has with it, is that it's way heavier than any other Non-Professional (Which have restrictions on where they can go). A lot of roads and bridges that are designed for cars only aren't designed for something of that weight, so allowing it on our roads would be dangerous.
There are plenty of bridges in Europe that were built by ancient monks thousands of years ago and would definitely not designed with cars in mind, so the weight that's allowed on them is extremely limited.
I'm pretty sure that you can import it whereever you want, but you will probably not be able to get licence plates for it to use it on the road?
In austria there is a process of getting a car "typisiert" ("categorized by type"?), where a car is checked for any violation of road regulations -- normally this process is used when you build a car from scratch, or modify it so heavily that it has to be rechecked. No "Typisierung", no licence plates, which means the vehicle can only be used on private roads.
Here in Finland you can import and get plates for pretty much anything imported, as long as it complies with the regulations in place in the country where it's imported from, the year it was made. That's why you can have a car with red turn signals, even though you can't sell a new one.
Frankly, that's kind of insane. It would make sense to grandfather in existing cars or have an exception for old-timers, but "someone stamped it, whatever" is just begging for abuse.