Buying a Car in Italy

well its not true that you have to and if i had paid more attention to other posts in the past i could help you with the rules.. so sorry for not helping... someone else might..however these are Italian rules and apply garage to garage..... some know some not ...could be worth doing a search on the old forum.. basically because we are residents... and have bought cars as such its been of little interest... shows how  its better to read everythingi guess what i am saying is that whatever has been told you... is most probably how they are applying the rules.. but it is not true... and if its areal problem... who wants to pay a full new car price... then it will take at least a search on the old forum and pretty good Italian to argue your case...

Hi, We have just had the difficult job of buying a car in Calabria! We did have to show our 'certificato di residenza' to the garage owner. Luckily for us we had a very good Italian friend with us who spoke very good english! None of the cars we were shown had prices on , in fact no cars at any of the garages had prices on. We had a budget of £3.000 and did not want to go above this amount, but due to the fact that Italy is giving a 'green discount'  of £4.000 on all second hand cars if you buy a new 'greener' car it was hard to find second hand cars in our price range. We found a little Lancia which we are very happy with for £2800!! I hope this info is helpfull.

A friend of mine says that cars, new and used, are much cheaper in Belgium & Holland than elsewhere, particularly Italy.  He went and bought a used car, drove it to Italy and then reregistered it. In England, for information, you have to have owned your 10+ year old car for at least one year to get the £2000 trade in.