2321 You Can Buy A Car In Italy Without Residency

so long as you are an EC citizen - here is a link that explains the system [url]http://www.magaglio.com/Immatricolaz...esteri%203.pdf[/url]
para 3) is the one relevant to UK citizens who maybe have a holiday home here in Italy. The relevant legislation is DPR 28/12/2000 n.445. Although the law is now over 5 years old it is little known of outside Milan/Varese but with a little persistence at an ACI office you should prevail. You will need passport, permesso do soggiorno and a "dichiarazione", which you can download from: [url]http://www.magaglio.com/Modulistica/...2CB%2CC%29.pdf[/url]

Don't be put off if you are told that England is not an Ec member (as happened to my wife) just remind them that it is only the Euro and the Schengen agreements that Britain has not signed up to and otherwise we are fully paid up members (esp. since Tony Blair's "courage, initiative and responsibility" - as Pr. Chirac described his rebate decision).

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 01/10/2006 - 03:33

Yes I confirmed with a Notari, and she said that we did not need residency. I already own both cars as I am a resident. My husband is buying a new car and since speaking to the notari has asked for it to go in his name. HOWEVER the concessonarie told him that he could not put it in his name. Bottom line is they are so bone idle that they always take the easy way out. You can ask 10 different people the same question and get 10 different answers. No one knows anything in this neck of the woods.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 01/10/2006 - 03:44

[QUOTE=pamela catalano]Yes I confirmed with a Notari, and she said that we did not need residency. I already own both cars as I am a resident. My husband is buying a new car and since speaking to the notari has asked for it to go in his name. HOWEVER the concessonarie told him that he could not put it in his name. Bottom line is they are so bone idle that they always take the easy way out. You can ask 10 different people the same question and get 10 different answers. No one knows anything in this neck of the woods.[/QUOTE]

The thing to do is quote chapter and verse and hold your ground. Also, ridiculous as it may seem, wearing a well cut suit seems to make officialdom take more notice. Ripped jeans would be better than a poorly cut suit.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 01/10/2006 - 04:03

[QUOTE=Aliena]Clothes maketh the man..

Does this mean women should only apply in the nude.. or have a well attired male escort in order to purchase a car in Italy without residency?

:) :)[/QUOTE]

Dazzling beauties, like yourself, should have no problems with officialdom but any man or woman can wear a well cut suit...in fact, I once considered opening a business together with a woman tailor in the city of london but she got pregnant and went back to live in Sweden.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 01/10/2006 - 04:20

This is where we have gone wrong. In future I shall go out in my diamond tiara ( if I had one ). Seriously you are probably correct. We all know the story of when Mick Jagger went to buy a roller ,long hair scruffy jeans etc and was told by the salesman that he was busy with a customer.Mick just went on to the next Rolls Royce showroom and bought his roller.This was in the sixties when appearance mattered so much in the UK. By the way I was told by my teacher that manners maketh man- not clothes.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 01/10/2006 - 14:55

[QUOTE=sdoj] ... wearing a well cut suit seems to make officialdom take more notice. Ripped jeans would be better than a poorly cut suit.[/QUOTE]

This is great stuff!

How did you find this out? Did you go into the showroom in the morning in a badly cut suit with no success, then go back in the afternoon in an Ermenegilda - and bob's your zio?

I think we should be told...