New Immigrant

[Cooly]

I will migrate to Toronto from HK in the next few months. I want to bring a R34 to there, can I register the car in canada?

[pmdawg]

Re: New Immigrant

I will migrate to Toronto from HK in the next few months. I want to bring a R34 to there, can I register the car in canada?

You probably can, are you coming here on a work or student visa? If your thinking of permanently migrating I am not sure how you would go about registering it. Best bet would be to ask someone who is fimiliar with your import/export laws, and see what best applies to your scenario.

[our_kid]

if you're coming on student visa, you can keep the car as long as your visa is valid....if you're moving here perminantely the ministry gives you, I believe, 12 months to keep the car to kind of give you time to get on your feet, find work, find a place to live, and get money for a car from here...the R34 would have to be exported or crushed after those 12 months

[Cooly]

Thanks our_kid & pmdawg. I am coming on permantently. Seems like I should not bring it in & I prefer to buy another one via the import car company legally. Do you guys have any suggestions for the import car company? I will living in Toronto, Richmond hill.
Also, all the famous japanese cars are right hand driving, is it necessary to change the steering to left hand side.

[CanadianGTR]

Thanks our_kid & pmdawg. I am coming on permantently. Seems like I should not bring it in & I prefer to buy another one via the import car company legally. Do you guys have any suggestions for the import car company? I will living in Toronto, Richmond hill.
Also, all the famous japanese cars are right hand driving, is it necessary to change the steering to left hand side.

Nope, a RHD car can remain RHD in Canada. As for good importing companies, your best bet is to just get settled down here first then worry about that. There are a few local import companies that you can deal with.

[entelijint]

just to add a little bit of clarification...
1)after the 12 month term, you have the option of deporting the car, crushing it or turning it into "Show/offroad"
2) RHD can remain RHD... but it needs to be 15yrs old to come here in the first place
3) www.importconcern.ca

[our_kid]

^^ once a car is registered for the street it can't be registered for show, and vise versa in Canada....so I believe