Are old German cars also taxed 100 Procent in Thailand?

[Sandman77]

Or is there a lower tax on it!

How much aproxinently a old Mercedes Benz from the 80's?

With leather seats

And where I can buy it?

[philthebook]

It will be more than 100% tax and it is based on the value of the car in Thailand, not what it's worth in Germany. I have been trying to figure out a cheap way of getting an old Mini cooper imported. This is a good website: http://www.thaicongenvancouver.org/cms/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=140#Permanent

I know of an old Merc on Samui that might be for sale, I will check with the owner over the weekend.

If you have someone who reads Thai, check out http://www.olx.co.th/ for used cars for sale

[VocalNeal]

http://www.olx.co.th/c11a9p29-auto-car-benz/nonthaburi/

[arthurwait]

No its combined taxes of 234% of what value they want to put in it.

Thailand is full of old Mercedes and seat makers.

[arthurwait]

http://www.olx.co.th/c11a9p29-auto-car-benz/nonthaburi/

You'll have all the hi-so haters on here soon having a go at all those nasty hi-so people and their 20 year old mercedes.

[MMarlow]

S Class, E Class, C Class? Big difference. You could probably buy one from one of hundreds of used car dealers. Try one2car.com as a start.

[ignis]

http://showroom.one2car.com/carDetail.aspx?car_id=d10140459

E Class as cheap as chip here !!

[IMHO]

In Answer to the OP, yes older cars had different tax structures to cars today.

There have been numerous changes to the way cars have been taxed - in the early 1990's the ban on importing cars < 2.3L was lifted, import tariffs dropped, and VAT was introduced. In the late 90's import duties were raised to 80%, and new excise taxes based on engine capacity and HP were introduced in the mid 2000's.

A 90's or before imported car was taxed much lower than it is today.

[Sandman77]

Ok!

Thx for great info!

What are regular price of 20 to 25 year old Mercedes car?

Not want one with a gas engine

Have a potential security risk !

[liddelljohn]

Most old mercs and Beemers in thailand over 15 years old now have Toyota camry v6 , Nissan VQ v6 or Honda V6 engine conversions with the japanese transmissions to in them ,,,,,