I wanted one to register as classic to maybe take it out once in a while in the weekend etc or the odd car show here and there so don’t bring up the excuse ItS aNoThEr Car TaKinG mOrE pArkInG as it would’ve been stored in a garage when not in use. how can TM with a straight face tell you the car is worth 10k and in the same sentence ask for 37k to register?? The car i wanted to buy was 7.5k so just registration without vat and duty is 5x the amount of the purchase price. Being into cars and living in malta are 2 of the worst combos ive ever seen (i am maltese)
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Posted by DogeBoi6
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Scrap this old trash and buy normal car(we have many of them already on the island, too many), it will be cheaper and much better in any mean.
One of many Brexit advantages? Saying that, is far cheaper for you to keep it in the UK and when you feel like driving it just fly there, book hotels for a weekend, come back. Will be many years until you’ll get to spend the equivalent of registration tax
That 10k valuation for a government seems to be quite high, even if that was an m5. Weird.
Transport Malta is a joke. I wanted to convert a commercial van to a campervan and, besides the obvious work to go into converting it and following electrical/safety codes, they will value it as a new vehicle and require me to pay half of the difference from its original purchase price. And no publicly available guidelines exist for what that validation might be, regardless if I put in a ton of work or just chuck in a mattress on the floor, I’m entirely at their mercy (and if course this is only done after I would have spent time and money on the conversion with no way for me to appeal their decision). It’s quite literally a trap for anyone who doesn’t have free-showing finances
genuinely if i was you, id probably get a garage somewhere in the UK and go fly over every so often, maybe do some short road trips, it would be at least a couple of years before the cost match what TM want
Apart from your birocratic issue, i had a similar problem, to make insurance for a 3000cc car, as a person who works on the reception in the insurance house with her professional and intelligent social dynamic skill concluded that it’s not safe for “Molta”.
Unbelievable..
On another note, this hobby has been always known to drain pockets.
Ask them about registering as a classic, if not mistaken it’s a discount of paying 30% of the €37k.
Also note it’s high because it’s coming from a non eu country. So buying the exactly same car from Spain would be much less.
If not mistaken 302Motors had one in stock.
There’s a chap near me that has a fantastic collection of old cars, but is running them on German plates. Unsure how he’s managing it and getting away with it. I watched LESA officials walk right past one yesterday, admire it and walk off.
I’ve also seen 2 other cars running UK plates for years now. One is often parked at Luxol in the big carpark there and the other is often in the Greens carpark. Neither of them seem to care. Either there’s a loophole or they’re just well connected.
That being said, I wanted to buy an Aston Martin Vanquish, but the import taxes and registration fees were 3x the price of the car… so I did what many here have suggested and I garage it in the UK and fly up every month for a long weekend to drive and enjoy it. In summer plan to take a month off work and do a road trip with it through Europe, but will return it to the uk.
It sucks not being able to drive it here, but I’m not forking over that extortionate amount of cash to TM when they don’t apply the same rules to everyone and leave the roads looking like we live in Gaza.