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Thanks!聽 I am getting mixed information on the shipping of a car for a returning Brazilian citizen.聽 If we end up making the move, I will post the information here.

- @skipsherv

But what if i want to travel on my car (a camper van) through Brazil and Argentina - can i ship it there for this purpose? It is stupid and unreal to buy a car just to travel...

12/30/22 But what if i want to travel on my car (a camper van) through Brazil and Argentina - can i ship it there for this purpose? It is stupid and unreal to buy a car just to travel...
-@Theodoro K.

It's hard to imagine a scenario in which renting a vehicle here wouldn't be much cheaper and much less hassle than trying to temporarily import a vehicle from abroad, if that were even permitted at all.聽 You definitely should check with the Brazilian and Argentine Embassies in your country (chances are that the laws are different, and one may be more lenient than the other), and with companies that move vehicles from your country to South America to know exactly what your options are.

@Bhavna聽 I imagine you have read all the reply鈥檚 so I have to ask WHY would you do it in the first place. Is it a classic? Do they not make this model in Brazil? Of course if money is no object you would also need to find someone in Brazil to service a car they know nothing about in Brazil.

Hello everybody,

If you exported your car to Brazil, were there any formalities that needed to be completed beforehand? What were they?

What is the best way to export your car? Is there a limit on the number of vehicles, or perhaps the age of the vehicle? Are there limits on emissions or emission controls in Brazil?

What are the expected costs of exporting a car? In your opinion, is it worth it?

Once you arrived in Brazil, what were the applicable taxes? What was the customs process like?

How do you go about registering an imported car in Brazil?

Is it best to buy a car once you have arrived or to bring your car with you, in your opinion?

We look forward to hearing from you!

Bhavna
-@Bhavna

Big waste of time and money.

1.Custom and Excise fees would wipe out any benefit you might gain. It matters none what you scored on the聽 negotiated purchase ( never mind ole lady Buick ). What customs suggest is worth ( close to MSRP ), is what taxes are levied against. You are paying full levvy.

2.Until it clears customs and they get paid, and the paperwork is in order, no delivery.聽 You will wait.... and wait.... and wait.

3.Trying to service whatever you bring here.聽 Never mind paying through the nose to get it serviced.聽 No dealership will touch it unless demanding heft ransom on parts and labor.聽 聽 Independent repair shops??? No chance someone quit the dealership, bought tools to undercut the dealership on rates.聽 There aren't that many good and specialized techs around.

4.Mechanics here are by and large ill equipped to service domestic nameplates, never mind foreign jobs. It ain't like America, where the technician carries his own tools in a big shiny red rollaway storage to the job site.

5.If it is hard to come by, it will get jacked for chop shops.聽 You will spend serious money on parking garages everywhere you go. Forget curbside parking.

6.Most of what you can buy out there,聽 chances are聽 there might be an equivalent here, short of a Lincoln/Buick/Cadillac or some old Volvo. And聽 you don't want those neither . Soft suspensions, expensive reprogramming, not suited for the roads and skills sets around here.

7.And don't even try to drive through the border.聽 You will be taken by other Latin American corrupt officers and customs clearance workers.聽

Get a beater, a vintage, or a new out of the lot. Made here.

As far as I know, you cannot import a used car into Brazil. You can import a new one but the shipping fees and taxes would negate any saving you make on the price of the vehicle. Grit your teeth and pay the extortionate prices here. I know, I hate it as well, but you probbly don't have much choice, I'm afraid.
-@Simonh342

You can actually import vintage cars into the country. A few local fellas do it.聽

The asking price, out of the door here, from these dealers, is astronomical.聽

12/31/22 @ Theodoro K.聽 I would especially call your attention to one thing that sprealestatebroker wrote above:

"2.Until it clears customs and they get paid, and the paperwork is in order, no delivery.聽 You will wait.... and wait.... and wait."

Having the paperwork in order means not only having all of the complex Customs documentation correct and accepted and all taxes and fees paid, but almost certainly obtaining certification that the vehicle is roadworthy and able to be registered in compliance with the CTB, C贸digo de Tr谩nsito Brasileiro/Brazilian Traffic Code.聽 The wait time and the final cost are hard to estimate, although both will be very high, probably high enough to cut very seriously into your travel plans.

I have a Miata Gran touring car at home, hardtop convertible, that I would simply adore having here, except first of all the very first lambado we come to would tear out the entire underside of the car and second parts and service would be absolutely impossible because there are NON others around.聽 So i just dont.

It is stupid and unreal to buy a car just to travel...
-@Theodoro K.

At one time in the USA, I owned an RV Park for many years. I continually had foreigners camping with me who had flown into the USA then bought a car just to travel in, only to abandon it at whatever airport they were flying out of. This was a common occurence. I've been traveling in and out of Brazil for many years. At first, I rented cars, but then, I bought my first car in Brazil long before I became a resident. I bought myself a second car, a new one, last year.

@Inubia

Sell it, unless you are a seasonal bird.聽 聽If you fancy a two seater roadseter, then take the money and buy a Puma.聽 VW Beetle Power Plant on a fiberglass body.聽

It is stupid and unreal to buy a car just to travel...
-@Theodoro K.
At one time in the USA, I owned an RV Park for many years. I continually had foreigners camping with me who had flown into the USA then bought a car just to travel in, only to abandon it at whatever airport they were flying out of. This was a common occurence. I've been traveling in and out of Brazil for many years. At first, I rented cars, but then, I bought my first car in Brazil long before I became a resident. I bought myself a second car, a new one, last year.
-@rraypo

Haha that reminds when I came to the US 25 years ago, with this exact plan. As luck would have it, I managed to get an older Corolla (with something like 200 thousand miles, but ran like new). Even after having put over 20k miles on it, I could easily resell it for what I had paid (500$).

I have a Brazilian friend who wants to import a new car from Europe, he has seen that a particular model he likes, is available in Switzerland for an attractive price, while it鈥檚 not even available here at all. I know that even if he managed to register it here, it would be so much more expensive that it鈥檚 just not worth it (it鈥檚 a regular car, not some exotic that鈥檚 worth hundreds of thousands of US$). I would like to give him a link where he can read himself that there鈥檚 a 60% import tax on cars. Would anyone have an official link that I could show him?

But what if i want to travel on my car (a camper van) through Brazil and Argentina - can i ship it there for this purpose? It is stupid and unreal to buy a car just to travel...
-@Theodoro K.

Actually I know of someone who has done exactly that. He had a little van (I think it was a Japanese van like a Toyota Hiace or a Mitsubishi L200) that was transformed into a camper, so he decided it would be worth the hassle. Obviously he had planned a trip that lasted a bit longer than a month or two. Unfortunately the person is a friend of a friend, so I have only second-hand information. But I do know that he traveled through various South American countries during more than a year, and I think he even shipped his van back to Europe once he was done traveling. Unfortunately it鈥檚 been about 10 years ago, so it鈥檚 unlikely that I鈥檒l be able to know more details. However I also remember seeing two campers with European license plates in the US (it was in the Rocky Mountains), that was about 20 years ago. One had French plates, the other one Swiss plates. So it鈥檚 definitely doable, and seems to make sense in certain circumstances.

01/14/23 Unfortunately it鈥檚 been about 10 years ago, so it鈥檚 unlikely that I鈥檒l be able to know more details. However I also remember seeing two campers with European license plates in the US (it was in the Rocky Mountains), that was about 20 years ago. One had French plates, the other one Swiss plates. So it鈥檚 definitely doable, and seems to make sense in certain circumstances.
-@Kurterino

At least it was doable -- in some places -- ten or twenty years ago.聽 If anybody wants to do it today, I'd advise working on the approvals and arrangements a year before the planned travel date, not a month or two.聽 Actually talking to officials on the front end of the planning, not the back end.聽 And for Brazil, probably allow something more than a year, and have a Plan B in case it all ends in a rejection.