Import the grey market cars

Drache said

After some reading the Grey Market is thus:

Say you want to buy a car that is made in another country. You go to their local dealership in your city and they want $50,000 for the vehicle. You know that the same vehicle sells in it's main country for only $20,000. So you find a company that buys the vehicles over there then ships it to you. They are UNOFFICIAL dealers of those said vehicles.

The car company doesn't like companies like that seller their product to a country where it's normally more expensive for said product but technically it's all legal.

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That's what the writer of the article in your original post wants you to believe and it's true if you're dealing with some exotic, but there's day-to-day implications of of the Grey Market, too.

There's a dealership here who got busted a couple of times for Grey Market vehicles, primarily Chrysler products. Back in the mid and late '90's upstate NY was full of Chrysler Intrepids, Chrysler Neons, Chrysler Stratuses. Remember, here in the states these cars are - were - sold under the Dodge and Plymouth nameplates.

The dealership was bringing in vehicles made and sold for the Canadian market. Everyone who bought one of these Chrysler nameplate Dodges were getting screwed out of there warranty. No other dealership would (could) touch 'em and the selling dealership would take weeks to fix 'em as he had to "warranty" them through the Canadian network.