Despite the $222,450 cost, the average profit margin for importing a car into China (if you're the importer itself) is around 10-30% depending on where you buy the car (since state tax and registration and insurance and etc). So basically you would make around 20k to 60k off of your car. But the exporters ALWAYS ship…

It's really funny because dealerships KNOW how rich young asian people are. Here in Seattle, there are SO many foreign asian college students at UW driving Audis, BMWs, jaguars, land rovers, and etc since their family back in china is rich as fuck.

I can tell you that is not the case. Most straw buyers are actually middle aged WHITE men. Unless you're close to a college with a high asian population, there shouldn't be too many college aged asian buyers there. I'm in seattle and we see plenty of chinese college students go in and buy Audi a4, Q5, BMW x5, x3, etc…

A BMW dealership actually got dinged earlier this year/late last year for doing this exact thing. They conspired with two exporters on this and sold 20+ cars to them if I remember right. They got fined and stuff and fired a few salesman. Didn't lose their franchise agreement though.

A lot of state laws are actually in favorable of the dealers on this one. They just have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that they did everything in their power (within reason) that they didn't think the buyer was a straw buyer.

Yep. That is true. But the main thing is that losing their franchise from the said activities is actually contestable and beaten (as already done by several dealerships already) but it just costs a lot of legal fees that the dealerships feel it's not worth appropriating because for the the Range rover and some BMW x5…

It depends on the model and area you live in. Maryland and New York is very popular because of Maryland state law that says you don't have to have insurance for the first month after you buy and register the car and so the middlemen there can cut down on costs and increase profits.

Well, The demand for used range rovers aren't nearly as strong as it is for new range rovers. But if you're trying to buy it at a land rover/jaguar dealership, they'll still try to make you sign the same thing even if it's a used model.

I've done this so basically you have to know the people on the end of the deals. I did it for one deal (as the middleman, not as the car buyer) and made about 8k off of the single deal for a BMW X5 and Range Rover sport. Took me like 2 months of research and everything to put together, but once the foundation is set,…

It's actually kind of funny because I was offered an opportunity to participate in this "scheme" and did a ton of research on it. Did a single deal (of two cars worth around $150k, one Range Rover Sport and one BMW X5) and then walked away with around 8k cash for doing the said single deal. (You earn on average…

How will we know what engine size it has to separate the rich from the poor people?????

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Well yeah. Haldex has always been primarily a reactive system. It doesn't make it any slower though than a full time AWD system.

I think the new Haldex based Audis/VWs would have a word with you. They're FWD biased AWD systems but it can shift a pretty good bit of power to the rear and aren't exactly slow...

This made my laugh.

It's slightly lower than the front!

I never said that AWD cars aren't better, just unnecessary for most of the population... If it's in stop and go traffic, then the acceleration is even less needed :/ you're not really expecting to go 60 mph on a heavily iced highway are you? And if it's cleared and salted, you'll be mostly on water/asphalt and still…

Except they're not other than when forward grip and acceleration is concerned...

FWD cars are completely fine as winter cars unless you got steep hills... Only thing is that it'll accelerate slower than even AWD cars on all season tires (but then again, you shouldn't be/need to be accelerating that quickly anyways on a icy road)

Unless you get literally dumped on by snow like Buffalo is right now, (then nothing will help unless you got like a Imperial AT-AT walker.) or you got hills that's like 20% grade that's completely iced over... a FWD car with snow tires will be fine...