Was thinking about moving to cyprus and if all goes well id like to take my car with me but how the hell do i go about doing it i havent the foggyest.

 

does anyone know how much it would cost to ship and to register etc?

 

Thanks in advance :D

Does anyone know who i should ask?

for shipping costs - probably a shipping company

for registering costs - probably the cypriot authorities (or website for info)

 

All you have to do on the UK side is fill out the V5 to say the vehicle has been exported. :)

just googled and found this....

 

I aint reading it but here you go - might help you

 

http://cyprus.angloinfo.com/forum/topic.asp?topic_id=2289

ive been reading that ... it all seems very complicated and fooked up, lazy greeks :D

Hi- I shipped a Merc to Limassol last august for permanent export. Cost £650+Vat (Thou car was a 6 door limo) normally £500+ Vat. from Southampton. (That was in a 20" container- they don't offer Ro-Ro) If you want to go from Tilbury it is more expensive - nearly double.

In Cyprus Cars are Road Taxed on engine size. The Z will cost £700+ approx for a year. Import duty still applies, even though they have joined the EU. Again it is calculated on engine size but also on retail value or cost price.

 

My in-laws have 6 cars going via Southampton in the next couple of weeks. If I hear any "new" news about the process I'll post here.

 

The shipper they use is a cypriot company with an office in London called Andrews shipping the no is- 0208 882 8763

thanks thats useful,,, but boy 700 quid a year tax???? thats alot geeez maybe il think twice. you sure it will be 700 quid for tax? anywys insurance is nothing out there if i remmember correctly?

Why not do a road trip and get the ferry from Greece to Cyprus?

how long a drive would that be? would work out the same in petrol really.

Until a couple of years ago the preferred weapon of choice for taxis out there was merc 300D's. The road tax has been hiked so much that they are all changing over to CDi220.

 

The road tax is linked to engine size and since becoming part of the EU many things have changed. The green lobby in Brussels is hard at work and "New" european countries like Cyprus are only too willing to comply with recommendations as it usually means that they can get a greater financial benefit through subsidies, grants etc

right, so this should help in our favour of road tax and road legalities?

Taxing a Z in Ireland is something like £400 a year. As for doing a road trip, that's the route I'd have gone. I can't imagine it's anymore expensive than chartering space in a container.

 

To do it on a budget, you could take the Speedferries' vessel from Dover to Boulogne which is about £50. The drive down to Greece would depend on how many stop offs/breaks you needed. A friend of mine used to drive his Lotus Elise down to Athens quite a lot and I think he managed to do it in about 20 hours non-stop. But that's dangerous. I'd budget 2 - 3 days.

 

I think Poseidon lines run from Piraeus (which is the port of Athens) to Limassol. But I believe the services have been suspended. Unsure as to why. Might be seasonal or something. Crossing is about 8hrs I believe, so I'd imagine that you'd be looking at a few hundred Euro for a crossing.

Taxing a Z in Ireland is something like £400 a year. As for doing a road trip, that's the route I'd have gone. I can't imagine it's anymore expensive than chartering space in a container.

 

To do it on a budget, you could take the Speedferries' vessel from Dover to Boulogne which is about £50. The drive down to Greece would depend on how many stop offs/breaks you needed. A friend of mine used to drive his Lotus Elise down to Athens quite a lot and I think he managed to do it in about 20 hours non-stop. But that's dangerous. I'd budget 2 - 3 days.

 

I think Poseidon lines run from Piraeus (which is the port of Athens) to Limassol. But I believe the services have been suspended. Unsure as to why. Might be seasonal or something. Crossing is about 8hrs I believe, so I'd imagine that you'd be looking at a few hundred Euro for a crossing.

 

 

Thats helpful, ive always wanted to do a long road trip, but id like some company on the way or id end up talking to the car and going mad......

 

But im thinking the cost in fuel would work out too expensive, all the bloody stopping at gas stations to fill up would be a time killer too.

 

Hmmm about the road tax in cyprus...... i spoke to a friend who recently moved to cyprus and brought over his vauxhall astra 2.0 vert he drove about for a year or so before it was finally registered, it worked out to about £1000 registration/shipping and that was over the year or wating for paperworks etc.

 

Now, the insurance costs in cyprus are silly cheap compared to the uk.

my friend pays £200 for his vauxhall,,,, or was he giving me a quote for mine im not sure but i know its cheap. my cousins were insured on their first car for around 100 quid now thats lovely, so i suppose the tax kinda evens out the insurance prices.

 

And petrol is almost half the price so id be doing alot more driving out there without having to worry about my pockets too much.