Germany has become very different to deal with when shipping from outside the EU. I sent a friend eight 3D-printed sets of automobile wheels in 87th scale, and two dashboards in the same scale. We are talking like three grams’ worth of plastic.

“ The Hollywood movie star and former California Governor was wearing a luxury watch...”

but the law also stipulates that at least 50 percent of the amount has to be paid in cash

Imports into countries are subject to tax. Pretty much the case almost everywhere in the world. If it was a cheap watch, they likely wouldn’t have questioned him. If he had worn it on his wrist, they likely wouldn’t have questioned it - because most places, Germany included, don’t care about personal items that you…

I’ve had to scratch the surface of importing stuff for work. You could spend your entire life working 40+ hours a week and still not understand the rules and paperwork. There seem to be 10 different ways to do anything, and you will be in massive trouble if you start down one path and don’t stick with it because you…

He had to pay a tax because he had an expensive watch? What? Am I missing something here? 

“but the law also stipulates that at least 50 percent of the amount has to be paid in cash...The watch should have been registered because it is an import.”

“Choc coated”....LOL. If the Aussies can find a way to shorten words, they will absolutely do so in every case.  G’day!

And the current Batmobile is a slightly customized 2nd gen Charger:

I hope the new Blade gets this as a hero car as a nod to the original Blade movie.

It is weird.

IT’S WEIRD that the little psychedelic drug use I hear about these days is connected to increasingly radicalised right-wing thinking in folk like Rogan and Musk, rather than the peace and love hippy outlook.

President Joe Biden’s administration has repeatedly refused to endorse setting a date to phase out the sale of gasoline-only vehicles.

If you can afford the price of entry of one of these new, you could not care less about the upkeep. No different than a yacht or a private jet, which many owners also have.

MY SUSPICION is that a Rolls Royce or Bentley could be like an ancestral pile for the unwary. Paying for the yearly upkeep will ruin you.

I WAS in my local pharmacy one day, waiting for an elderly gent who was haggling with the pharmacist over the price of every medication. Wanting a discount, complaining, carrying on.

sounds like something that would look pretty cool but then when the owner explains what it is exactly you think a lot less of the person.

Isn’t there that phenomenon of discount Disney vacations or meals or something being a harbinger of financial strife? I wonder if this is in that same vein.

My absolutely favorite customization to hate is the whole “have the sky the night you were born in the headliner” lights thing. It’s just the most narcissistic, amazing, horrible... I just can’t.

I can’t imagine having RR money and buying one “off the rack” at any price. Having the thing built *exactly* the way you want it is much of the appeal of this sort of car.