Where are the cheapest new bikes in EU?

[Val]

Looking for ex-pats wisdom here.

For example I am looking at pre-reg 0 miles SUZUKI GSX-S1000F ABS bike in Germany it would cost me 11300 OTR. That is £8000. About £2000 cheaper than in the UK.


Where is the cheapest place to buy new bike in the EU? Are Ducatis cheaper in Italy?
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[Ste]

Bracknell Fencing have some amazing discounts on Ducati's for lesbians who're bald.

[N cee thirty]

seeing as they all use teh euro i wouldn't have thought they would be much cheaper, delivery will be the killer
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[doggone]

I was surprised VAT is not uniform across EU though.

[CaNsA]

[kawakid]

We're being ripped off.

In 2008 when the economy went belly up and the pound fell to virtual polarity with the € the price of bikes went up.

(Because we are told they are imported from € land).

Queue 2015, pounds back to €1.4 against the £ and funny enough prices the same.

We are being ripped off. For a £2K saving, I would get a Sleazy Jet Flight to the Father land and ride the fecker home.

(Don't know what the clocks are like, but if they are a digital Speedo, you can simply change them over by doing a series of button pushes.
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[temeluchus]

[c_dug]

Still happens, a guy who I had the misfortune to know a few years back bought a Corvette in Germany and drove it home because it saved him a whopping wad of cash.
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[TaffyTDM]

[Gazz]

What about Andorra?

They are not in the EU but they use the Euro and their booze and fags are cheap so maybe their motorcycles are too...

On the plus side it has some amazing motorcycle roads if you are ever in that area and loads of bike shops too.

[mudcow007]

buying a bike abroad is pointless though init

arnt they all left hand drive?

make it a bit hard to ride it over here










only kiddin' init

[TaffyTDM]

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[c-m]

Wherever you buy in the EU you will have to pay UK VAT when you import it. That will destroy the majority of the saving. Thought you do get to claw back the VAT paid in the country of purchase.

[skatefreak]

Can't you just bring it over on the ferry?
*New bike that? paid yr taxes on it mr?*
*Nah, had it ages, just given it a good old wax and bufff*?

[iooi]

[stevo as b4]

Id be interested to know the equivalent price of say a new Blade in both the USA and also in it's birth country, and how bummed or not we would be by the exchange rate from £ if we wanted one?

[c-m]

Not the EU but the new Africa Twin in white without DCT works out at £9,400 in Switzerland

Still waiting on the UK price. I expect it to be over £10,000

[wr6133]

[ScaredyCat]

[wr6133]

Seems Poland is the place to buy a fireblade

51900 Polish monopoly tokens (£8854.28)

https://www.honda.pl/motorcycles/range/super-sport/cbr1000rr-fireblade-2014/offers.html

[c-m]

That one in Poland must be the pre-VAT price as VAT in Poland is 23% plus they have Excise tax on vehicles too.

[.Chris.]

Make sure prices quoted in foreign parts are on the road, before drawing comparisons. Prices in America tend to exclude delivery, sales tax (anywhere from 0 to 10% depending on where you live) and other fees. Still much cheaper than here, but the gap is narrowed slightly.
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