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?

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

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

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

Thailand is full of old Mercedes and seat makers.

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.

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.

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

E Class as cheap as chip here !!

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.

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 !

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 ,,,,,