Exporting Corvette to France

[cs174]

Hi all,

I'm selling a Corvette C5 Z06 and have had an enquiry from France. The car has previously been imported from the States and was SVA'd in the UK by Bauer & Millett. Does anyone know what needs to be done, if anything, to import the car to France?

Thanks in advance.

cs174

[anonymous-user]

There's a big thread on this somewhere else which I summarise for you below,

In theory - possible.

In practice - forget it.

Why? Because you'd need local expert knowledge of (i) french language, and (ii) french beaurocracy. Polish your schoolboy French, Google "DRIRE" and all will become clear...

[cs174]

Thanks for the quick reply.

I don't intend on importing the car myself, I just wanted to help the potential Buyer by letting him know what's required. I'll leave the French speaking part and beaurocracy to him.

From what I can gather from other threads, I just need the Certificate of Conformity. Is this correct?

TIA

cs174

[v8yea]

I think the problem you will have is a lack of a CoC for the C5 Z06.
As far as I know it was never euro safety tested so the car will have to go through French SVA which,by all accounts,is a nightmare.
It's possible but you would be luckier to get an Italian or a German( in fact anybody from anywhere but France).

[Mello]

I wanted to do the same, but apparently it's impossible to get GM Europe to issue a certificate of conformity for a US-spec Corvette. You can import a European one, just not an identical US one. Hmmm, French bureaucracy...

[G4HKS]

I heard that they banned Yellow ones altogether......

[v8yea]

A jaundiced view in my opinion

[Mello]

G4HKS said:

I heard that they banned Yellow ones altogether......

v8yea said:

A jaundiced view in my opinion

...too fast, apparently.