European exotic

[Charybdis]

How hard is it to get a european exotic car (EU small series approved or nationally registerd one-off) on the streets in China, Japan, India or Singapore? Has anyone experience with such a thing? Suggestions how to get these informations about the registration process and the requirements for the mentiones countries?

[anonymous-user]

If you have the money easy, from what I understand loads of European cars in Japan. second biggest Market for Lotus at one time. Singapore you have the certificate of use issue, for older cars, I was put onto a lotus Carlton in Singapore the other week, which doesn't have a certificate, and is just stood in a garage scrap, I'm trying to buy as a spare.
In Malaysia there are lads of exotica about the other day I found a Maserati MC 12 in a garage, one of 25 built, that's exotic.
There are loads of super cars around just incredibly expansive.
Best way to find them is car clubs, specialist garages and friends, you need a bit of knowledge to avoid gray imports, as these can be a problem to get serviced.

[Charybdis]

Thank you for the reply.

Money is less an object than feasibility. Of course it´s a show stopper as soon as you have to go into destructive testing or when you had to undergo a homologation process as a mass product would. 10k costs is no problem, 50k is ok, 100k maybe, 5 mio isn´t.

[XJSJohn]

In Singapore, if it's new it can be brought in (or no more than 3 years old)

If it is a type of car that has never been brought in, it will have to go through type approval ($$), but generally if it is road legal in UK / Europe / USA from new then it shouldn't be too much of a technical issue.

ohh and a shed load of Tax and a COE ....

edit - in singapore all the info is on the LTA website ..... somewhere.