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Experience luxury and comfort like never before! Book a room at the Taj Mahal Hotel in New Delhi. Belonging to the renowned Taj Hotel Group, this hotel is an ideal lodging destination if you are wishing to spend some days amidst optimum luxury and comfort. Located within easy reach to the city center, the hotel is an ideal place for both tourists and corporate travelers.
Accommodation in Taj Mahal Hotel
Being one of the well known luxury hotels in New Delhi, The Taj Mahal Hotel offers state-of-the-art accommodation with a blend of style and comfort. The hotel consists of 422 guest rooms and 40 luxury suites. You can choose your ideal lodging center from:
You will simply cherish the lodging facilities in the hotel. All rooms are air conditioned and have en suite bathrooms with stylish toiletries and bath fittings. The interior of the rooms are decorated with a traditional touch with antique furniture. The private balconies or terraces in the rooms offer splendid view of the sprawling lawns and the surroundings. The presidential suites have separate master bed room, dining room, living room, library, workout area and drawing rooms.
Other lodging facilities offered here are:
Dining at Taj Mahal Hotel
You will simply love dining here. The hotel is home to a wide range of restaurants and bars which serve mouth watering cuisine from India and other parts of the world. They are:
Emperorâs Lounge: It serves various types of delicious desserts and confectionaries.
House of Ming: It serves varied range of mouth watering Chinese and Cantonese dishes.
Machan: It serves various types of delicious Indian, Asian and other delicacies.
Varq: Ranking among the well known restaurants in the city, it serves a wide range of mouth watering Indian and Mughlai dishes.
The Grill Room: An ideal place to dine, it is an ideal place to have a taste of mouth watering European and Italian delicacies.
Wasabi By Morimoto: It serves various types of Japanese dishes.
Ricks: It is a perfect place to have a taste of wide range of refreshing liquor, juices and cocktails.
Business and Conference Facilities at Taj Mahal Hotel
Business and conference facilities in the hotel are well developed to make your events a grand success. There are 4 well equipped meeting and conference rooms which can host high profile seminars, conferences and corporate events. Banquets and receptions are also organized in the Terrace Garden and Poolside Lawn.
Health and Recreation at Taj Mahal Hotel
The hotel offers an array of fitness and recreational facilities like swimming pools, spa, yoga sessions, and health clubs and so on. The hotelâs beauty salon is an ideal place to have a grooming session.
Other Facilities and Services
In addition to these, you can also enjoy other facilities like car parking and rental services, airport transportation services, currency exchange, laundry facilities, security services, smoke detectors, child care, gift shop, concierge and disabled care services and lots more.
Sumit Singh
http://www.articlesbase.com/travel-articles/taj-mahal-hotel-get-the-best-deal-of-comfort-and-luxury-719496.html
Mar 9
Two guys meet up in a bar. The first one asks, "Did your hear the news - Mike is dead??!!!"
"Woah, what the hell happened to him?"
"Well he was on his way over to my house the other day and when he arrived outside the house he didn’t brake properly and boom - He hit the curb, the car flipped over and he crashed through the sunroof - Went flying through the air and smashed through my upstairs bedroom window."
"What a horrible way to die!"
"No no, he survived that, that didn’t kill him at all. So, he’s landed in my upstairs bedroom and he’s all covered in broken glass on the floor. Then, he spots the big old antique wardrobe we have in the room and reaches up for the handle to try to pull himself up. He’s just dragging himself up when bang, this massive wardrobe comes crashing down on top of him, crushing him and breaking most of his bones."
"What a way to go, that’s terrible!"
"No no, that didn’t kill him he survived that. He managed to get the wardrobe off him and crawls out onto the landing, he tries to pull himself up on the banister but under his weight, the banister breaks and he goes falling down on to the first floor. In mid air, all the broken banister poles spin and fall on him, pinning him to the floor, sticking right through him."
"Now that is the most unfortunate way to go!"
"No no, that didn’t kill him, he even survived that. So he’s on the downstairs landing, just beside the kitchen. He crawls in to the kitchen, tries to pull himself up on the stove, but reached for a big pot of boiling hot water, whoosh, the whole thing came down on him and burned most of his skin off him."
"Man, what a way to go!"
"No no, he survived that, he survived that! He’s lying on the ground, covered in boiling water and he spots the phone and tries to pull himself up, to call for help, but instead he grabs the light switch and pulls the whole thing off the wall and the water and electricity didn’t mix and so he got electrocuted, wallop, 10,000 volts shot through him."
"Now that is one awful way to go!"
"No no, he survived that…"
"Hold on now, just how the hell did he die?"
"I shot him!"
"You shot him? What the hell did you shoot him for?"
"He was wrecking my house."
2.Woman: Is there a problem, Officer?
Officer: Ma’am, you were speeding.
Woman: Oh, I see.
Officer: Can I see your license please?
Woman: I’d give it to you but I don’t have one.
Officer: Don’t have one?
Woman: Lost it 4 times for drunk driving.
Officer: I see…Can I see your vehicle registration papers please.
Woman: I can’t do that.
Officer: Why not?
Woman: I stole this car.
Officer: Stole it?
Woman: Yes, and I killed and hacked up the owner.
Officer: You what?
Woman: His body parts are in plastic bags in the trunk if you want
to see.
The Officer looks at the woman, slowly backs away to his car, and
calls for back up. Within minutes 5 police cars circle the car. A senior
officer slowly approaches the car, clasping his half drawn gun.
Officer 2: Ma’am, could you step out of your vehicle please!
The woman steps out of her vehicle.
Woman: Is there a problem sir?
Officer 2: One of my officers told me that you have stolen this
car and murdered the owner.
Woman: Murdered the owner?
Officer 2: Yes, could you please open the trunk of your car,
please.
The woman opens the trunk, revealing nothing but an empty trunk.
Officer 2: Is this your car, ma’am?
Woman: Yes, here are the registration papers.
The first officer is stunned.
Officer 2: One of my officers claims that you do not have a driving
license.
The woman digs into her handbag and pulls out a clutch purse and
hands it to the officer. The officer snaps open the clutch purse and
examines the license. He looks quite puzzled.
Officer 2: Thank you ma’am, one of my officers told me you didn’t
have a license, that you stole this car, and that you murdered and hacked
up the owner.
Woman: Betcha the lying bastard told you I was speeding too
I think im gonna try the last one if ever a cop stops me for speeding. Lmao
LMFAO haha i love the first one
lol im guna try the second one :]P
Mar 3
By H. Paul Leyva, J.D., C.AM.C.
October 1, 2008
International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR), March, 2008:
 ” ⦠there are already indications that money launderers and those that finance terrorism will avail themselves of the new m-payment systems.â
NEW YORK, NYâBrittany has never filed an income tax return to report her $200,000.00+ income as a high-class call girl. To continue to hide her illegal profits from the IRS and law enforcement, Brittany added an m-payment function to her mobile phones and PDA. With the m-payment feature in place, she now lives virtually cash-free. For example, Brittany asks her clients for the âe,â (street slang for electronic mobile payment, or e-pay). âEâ is a text message-like transfer of funds from a clientâs mobile phone m-account to the m-account contained in Brittanyâs phone. After hours, Brittanyâs Blackberry now functions as a debit card for all of her spending needs: shopping at Nordstromâs to buy that designer purse, sending a car payment for her new Mercedes-Benz via text message, and clubbing all night with her friends. Today, Brittany earned $800 for her services. Before m-payment technology, she had no other choice but to make suspicious daily cash deposits into her bank accounts. With the advent of m-payment, she no longer worries about anyone tracing her bank activity. As a safety precaution, Brittany destroys the SIM memory cards from her phones and PDA devices at the end of each week and replaces them with new ones. As a result, if she ever gets arrested for her activities, no digital evidence of her occupation, income, or lifestyle remains.
LOGAN SQUARE, CHICAGO, ILâAlex, an accountant by day and drug user by night, uses his PC to transfer $400 from his personal checking account to his mobile phoneâs m-payment account. Alex is in need of Ecstasy from his dealer. Per their standing arrangement, buyer and supplier meet at the local café on the corner of California Avenue and Logan Square Boulevard. As usual, the dealer has cleverly hidden the Ecstasy in an empty cup of coffee, and Alex transfers the âeâ via text message to the supplierâs mobile phone. When the transaction is complete, Alex slips away to plan his evening.
As the dealer enjoys his latte, he uses his mobile phone to text the funds to a bank in the Cayman Islands, where the deposit will easily get lost in the multitude of other small value transfers. Once the transaction is complete, the supplier gasps a sigh of relief because he knows he is safe. If a rival gang member tries to steal the cash, he will find no trace of the money. Similarly, if the police tried to apprehend him, by pressing the âDelete Transaction Historyâ function on his cell phoneâevidence-erasing software that he downloaded from the netâall incriminating evidence is gone. With no evidence of his crime, the authorities would be forced to let the dealer go.
NAIROBI, KENYAâInternational Press: August 7th. On the anniversary of the suicide bomb that killed more than two hundred people at the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, yet another suicide bomber kills fifty-eight people near the rebuilt U.S. Embassy in Kenya. At this point, the authorities are unable to determine the identity of the terrorist or group responsible for this attack, but many believe it to be the work of Al Qaeda. The FBI officer-in-charge and top Kenyan Security officials admit that they found the remains of a pre-paid m-payment mobile phone within the wreckage; however, since these devices are unregistered, the phone could have been purchased anywhere and by anyone. In Kenya as well as in many other parts of Africa, the use of mobile phones and m-payment technology as miniature banking devices is commonplace. Critics have reiterated that m-payment technology makes it easier for terrorists to send and receive transfers of funds via text message transmission.
These scenarios exemplify the warnings issued in the March 2008 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) entitled âMobile Payments: A Growing Threat,â which describes the potential exploitation of m-payment technology by money launderers, criminals, and terrorists.
What is m-payment? How does it work? Does it already exist in other countries? How can money launderers, criminals, and terrorists exploit this technology to hide their illicit activities? Most importantly, what steps can the United States and other countries take to curtail the potential abuses of m-payment?
âSome of the most innovative are electronic payment products which include mobile payments or m-payments ⦠Driven by a remarkable convergence of the financial and telecommunications sectors, the rapid global growth of m-payments demands particular attention. M-payments can take many forms but are commonly point of sale payments made through a mobile device such as a cellular phone, a smart phone, or a personal digital assistant (PDA).â
                                                           -INCSR, March, 2008
The Virtual Wallet
M-payment (mobile payment) is synonymous with the terms m-commerce, m-accounts, m-wallet, m-banking, e-money, or digital cash. For the sake of this article, the more widely accepted term âm-paymentâ will be used. The best way to envision this relatively exciting technology is to imagine a time in which your mobile phone or PDA will act like a wallet. Furthermore, it will be a wallet that not only allows you to withdraw money from it to pay for goods and services, but also enables you to deposit money into itâthus making this monetary device even more flexible and useful than a credit card. The widespread adoption of m-payment could eliminate the need to carry cash, visit an ATM machine, send wire transfers, or even use a credit card.
Currently there are two platforms that facilitate the use of m-payment. The first enables your mobile phone to link to m-accounts, such as your bank account, credit card, internet payment service, or other financial institution. The second makes it possible for mobile phone companies to act as banks and allows customers to deposit and withdraw funds using their mobile accounts. Although this service is not yet available in the United States, m-payment has already enjoyed acceptance and success in countries such as Japan, Korea, and the Philippines. M-payment technology is also beginning to thrive in South Africa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Kenya.
At present no special hardware is required to utilize m-payment. A subscriber can surf the Web for an internet-based m-payment service and then download the necessary software onto almost any existing mobile phone. M-payment software uses existing text-messaging technology to send and receive funds, confirm payments and credits, and check balances.
The Virtual ATM
Imagine going to a McDonalds (or nearly any retailer) to buy lunch and then asking the cashier for an extra $50 (or more) in cash. For a small fee, the McDonalds cashier will not only charge a customerâs m-account for the hamburger, soda, and fries, but will also ring up the $50 in cash that he or she requested. Similar to debit cards, there is no need to locate an ATM Machine or pay high banking fees.
Person to Person (PTP) Transfers
Person to person (PTP) transfers are also possible. For example, friends, family, and private parties involved in business transactions can transfer funds to each other via their mobile phones. A mother can send her teenage daughterâs allowance via text message. Employers can text message wages to their employeesâ mobile phones. After winning an auction on EBay, a buyer can text the payment to the seller. Or, an individual wanders into a garage sale only to find that beautiful antique he has been seeking, but he has no cash. Moreover, the seller does not accept credit cards. The solution is simple: the buyer text messages the payment directly to the sellerâs mobile phone. The possibilities are endless.
Wire Transfers via Mobile Phone
The World Bank estimates that global remittances (i.e. international wire transfers) exceed one quarter of a trillion dollars annually. Increasingly, in many areas, m-payments provide a new option to expatriates and âguest workersâ that wish to send part of their wages home to support their families.
In the United States, many migrant workers from Mexico and Central and South America use wire transfer services such as Western Union and Money Gram to send money to their relatives abroad. In 2005 alone, funds transferred to Mexico from the United States totaled more than $20 billion. Unfortunately these wire services come with high fees, and some of the recipient banks also charge fees for the transaction as well. Furthermore, in rural areas abroad many people do not have access to banks. With m-payment technology, a migrant worker can literally text message the payment to his relativeâs mobile phone, thus circumventing the exorbitant fees charged by wire transfer services and receiving banks.
Virtual Travelerâs Check
           Another amazing feature of m-payment technology is that it allows a mobile phone to act as a virtual travelerâs check. Before leaving on a family vacation, a subscriber can deposit money into his mobile phoneâs m-payment account then withdraw the funds as needed during the trip. Consumers will no longer need to purchase travelers checks or travel with significant amounts of cash.
Contract-Less, or Touch and Go, Mobile Phones
Beyond their use for text messaging to send and receive funds, mobile phones can also be placed in âcontract-lessâ mode. To activate this feature, a special chip can be attached to or inserted into the phone. It is likely that future cell phones will come with this feature already built into it. When a consumer wishes to make a purchase, he or she can simply âswipeâ a mobile phone over a cashierâs scanning device and complete the transaction. With the âswipeâ or âtouch and goâ feature, no signature or additional data entry is necessary at the cash register.
Pre-Paid Mobile Phones and M-Payment
Low-income consumers or those with poor credit who would not be eligible for monthly phone contracts or credit cards can use pre-paid mobile phones to conduct m-payments. These individuals can load pre-paid cards holding various monetary denominations ($50, $100, $250, or more) onto a mobile phone to enable the device to be used as a virtual wallet. As in previous examples, friends and family can also transfer funds to the pre-paid phone via text message as well.
Potential Displacement of ATMs, Wire Transfer Companies, and Credit Cards?
As with m-payment accounts holders in other parts of the world, Americans will undoubtedly also embrace the convenience and cost savings of this virtual wallet. With the continued proliferation of m-payment technology, it may be argued that m-payment services could actually result in the death of ATM machines, wire transfer companies, and high interest rate credit card fees. This prediction is well-founded when one considers that the United States contains approximately 250 million mobile phone subscribersâa number equal to 82 percent of the populationâand over three billion mobile phones are currently in use worldwide. In addition to these facts, The Wireless Association reported in its 2007 Wireless Industry Survey that consumers send almost one billion text messages each day worldwide.
Even more compelling is the convenience offered by this service. Given this technology, customers no longer have to locate an ATM machine in order to withdraw money. Using a PC, they can transfer funds from their bank accounts directly to their mobile phone accounts. When a migrant worker needs to send money to his family abroad, he or she can merely speed-dial the funds directly from his mobile phone to a relative’s phone. An individual will no longer need to drive to the local Western Union outlet to complete the transaction. In contrast to high interest credit cards, m-payment service providers will offer competitive rates, discounts, or other incentives to attract new customers. Finally, another cause for concern on the part of banks and wire transfer companies is the fact that mobile phones have already contributed to the demise of pay phones, cameras, and retail music stores.
PayPal Facilitates a Fundamental Shift in M-Payment
In a report published by Juniper Research, a respected consultancy group that provides analytical services to the global hi-tech communications sector, Senior Analyst Alan Goode concluded that the entry of PayPal into the micro m-payment and m-retail sector, âwill only serve to facilitate a fundamental shift in global consumer payment services now and into the future.â Moreover, Goode predicts that âmobile payments are set to rise to $10 billion in total revenue by 2010.â
Other players that have already entered the m-payment market include Googleâs G-Pay, Firehorn Holdings, LLC, mFoundry Inc, and Obopay, Inc. The largest provider is PayPal with more than 100 million Internet accounts worldwide.
 âThere are numerous money laundering and terrorism financing implications [of m-payments], but digital value smurfing represents a very clear threat.â
                                                           -INCSR, March, 2008
Smurfing
The dark side of m-payment, if the service remains unregulated, will enable money launderers, criminals, and terrorists to exploit this new technology. In specific, this new technology will undoubtedly facilitate smurfing.
It is generally known that astute money launderers, criminals, and terrorists have always been willing to keep their financial transactions under $1,000 per day to avoid financial reporting requirements. One way to hide money is by using multiple âsmurfsâ or ârunnersâ to make deposits, purchase money orders, travelerâs checks, or other transactions involving illicit or âdirtyâ money. Smurfing can be accomplished by spreading small denomination drug payments, or contributions to terrorist causes, across various remittance centers or multiple bank accounts. In essence, smurfing breaks down illegal proceeds into small amounts that can be moved with less risk of attracting the authoritiesâ attention.
For instance, a drug dealer or terrorist can order ten different soldiers, or âsmurfs,â to open ten different bank accounts, or conduct ten different financial transactions per day. After the accounts are open, the drug dealer or terrorist orders his smurfs to deposit amounts less than $999 per dayâfor example, $756 one day, $922 another day, and so on. By ensuring that the bank deposits, or other financial transactions, fall below the $1,000 threshold, they can avoid suspicion and prevent the triggering of financial reporting requirements. In this example, ten different smurfs with ten different bank accounts who deposit an average of $850 per day can launder $2.21 million annually.
Although more sophisticated detection systems, increased government oversight, and heavier penalties have slowed down the practice of âsmurfingâ in recent years, this system remains a fundamental method for moving cash and cash equivalents.
Digital Value Smurfing (DVS)
M-payment with digital value removes the fundamental element of money laundering: cash. In the future, money launderers, drug dealers, and other criminals will no longer demand cash for their products or services; instead, they will demand digital payment sent via text message. With digital value, multiple smurfs will no longer be needed to make suspicious cash deposits. Criminals will be able to bypass regulated banks and their financial reporting requirements and exchange dirty money for digital value in the form of stored value cards or mobile payment credits. Moreover, with digital value instead of cash, they can instantly sendâwith a touch of a cell phone keypadâtheir digital value across the country, around the world, or to secret offshore bank accounts.
A single Digital Value Smurf (DVS) could open multiple m-payment accounts with multiple service providers, such as m-payment bank accounts, Internet payment accounts, and pre-paid mobile phones. Other avenues could include renting cell phones from others, or utilizing false identities to open additional accounts. The number of m-payment accounts that a single DVS could establish is unlimited. Thus, using the same example as above, a single DVS with merely ten different m-payment accounts could arguably launder the same amount of money that it would take ten different smurfs to accomplish.
Other Implications: Facilitation of Tax Evasion by Small Businesses
M-payment technology can facilitate tax evasion. Three billion people around the world own mobile phones, but only one billion possess bank accounts, according to the GSM Association. BearingPoint, a major management and technology consulting company, estimated the unbanked marketplace in the United States alone at $510 billion in 2006.
The fundamental rule in small business accounting is that all financial transactions are conducted through a business checking account provided by banks. For instance, when a sole proprietor, a partnership, or a corporation conducts business, it does so by using a business checking account. As required by law, banks employ the Know Your Customer (KYC) protocols by requesting identification from new customers along with evidence of the business entity (assumed names registration, business license, or articles of incorporation).
With an m-payment account, however, a small business owner can conduct business virtually under the radar. Instead of business deposits, the company can receive e-payments. Furthermore, instead of disbursing expenses through its business checking account, the company can make payments via m-payment. With no paper trail, the unbanked small business owner could easily evade income tax filing requirements, thus depriving the U.S. Treasury of billions of dollars in tax revenue.
âMuch work and creative thinking will be required to maintain the advantages NPMs [new payment methods], including m-payments offer, while at the same time preventing exploitation and misuse by money launderers and terrorist financiers and simultaneously protecting user privacy and the integrity of the global financial systems.â
                                                                       -INCSR, March, 2008
M-payment is revolutionaryâmainly due to its convenience. This technology will literally change the way consumers pay for goods and services, the way they are compensated, the way they save money, the way they spend it, and the way they send money to family and friends abroad. This service will create new industries and new opportunities. M-payment is also radical because it may represent the final piece of the financial puzzle that moves our world into a cashless society.
With the convenience that m-payment offers, however, comes the potential for criminal misuse. M-payment technology, if unchecked, can be exploited by money launderers and terrorists. Presently, the United States is ill prepared to handle the dark side of m-payment. As the INCSR acknowledged, âThe United States has few safeguards against abuse of m-payments.â Moreover, the report also warns that the only applicable federal reporting requirement to providers of stored value cards is the Currency Transaction Report (CTR) rule. A CTR must be filed for all cash transactions greater than $10,000 per day. However, the CTR can be filed up to fifteen days after the transaction has occurred, giving terrorists and criminals enough time to disappear. Although almost all U.S. m-payment service providers are registered as Money Services Businesses (MSB) with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), the regulations do not have specific provisions pertaining to them.
New legislation is needed to regulate m-payment service providers. Legislation can include requirements that service providers monitor accounts, enhance suspicious activity reporting, require maximum transaction limits (e.g, $1,000.00 per day), require the registration of pre-pay cell phones with m-payment, and development of new, m-payment specific software to detect suspicious activity.
With m-payment projected to grow to 52 percent by the year 2011, there is ample time to put the necessary safeguards and regulations in place to combat the threat to anti-money laundering.
H. Paul Leyva, J.D., is Certified Anti-Money Laundering Consultant (CAMC) and a student at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, Walter H. & Dorothy B. Diamond, Masters of Law (LL.M) International Tax Program. Â Per the request of the distributor, this article was published without footnotes or references. Â The original version of this report with all footnotes and references is available upon request.
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H. Paul Leyva
Feb 13
Hello.
Like a lot of other people, I’m in love with the Nissan Skyline. I’m getting a car soon and I figured I could save up with the money I get from my parents to import and Skyline. I’ve seen 99 skylines available for import for about 20 grand. These are all stock of course. I would love to own one in the states and I thought it was a matter of paying for shipping and probably some customs fees in CT. I have read that it is illegal to import because a company called Motormex or something like that imported 35 or so and "grandfathered" them. I have read that the only way to get them is to go to Japan. De-Assemble them. And then ship them to the states as parts and put the skyline together as a kit car. I also read something about having to buy two of whatever car you want so that the part numbers do not match up and it is llegal. I think this is over the top and not in my budget. However, if it is llegal, I would love to buy one. Also what is "grandfathering" is that just a method of adoption. I have also heard that you can wait till the car is considered an antique which is 25 years or older or something and then you have to import it. I also heard that in Canada you can import it at 15 years and then register it there and drive it here. Please help me clear this up because I want to know how I can get one. I am really only satisfied with 98+ skylines. so r34’s and gt-r’s. I am looking for that aggressive look that they have 
Thank You Yahoo Answers!!
here ya go…..google works wonders
Since it seems that the information on the LEGAL importation of the nissan skyline into the US is scattered all over these forums, I thought it would be a good idea to try and put them into order in one nice thread. Here is a current list of links to the DOT/NHTSA/EPA sites with information pertaining to the importation of either specifically the Nissan Skyline, or the general information of vehicle importation of vehicles NOT manufactured in the US. These are the FACTS in black and white. Please do not post too many comments here, however feel free to post any link I may have left out, or any new ones as they become available.
Some key information to remember before going nuts on trying to import a nissan skyline to US soil:
1. Just because a company is listed as an Registered Importer and is able to bring in a Nissan Skyline by law, DOES NOT mean said company can make that car street legal.
2. Importing a Nissan Skyline as a so-called "Kit Car" is NOT legal. (just read the link to the reg on this page)
3. Mororex is now defunct and can no longer import skylines.
List of all Registered Importers (updated regularly by the NHTSA):
http://nhtsa.com/cars/rules/import/w…t01122006.html
Importation and Certification FAQ’a from NHTSA:
http://nhtsa.com/cars/rules/import/F…ite/index.html
NHTSA vehicle eligibility List:
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/cars/rules/…LIG010906.html
Importing vehicles and engines as outlined by the EPA:
http://www.epa.gov/otaq/imports/index.htm#vehicles
Non Resident, Returning Military, and Returning Official Government Employee Importations of Personal Vehicle for Personal Use:
http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/in…al_vehicle.xml
For those of you living in California and have to deal with CARB:
http://www.arb.ca.gov/homepage.htm
EPA Kit Car Policy:
http://www.epa.gov/otaq/imports/kitcar.htm
Personal Note: These are the FACTS as stated on these links by government agencies. I would love to see the Nissan Skyline available for street use in the US without the hassle of all the BS. However, I am for obeying the law, and in so doing, it would be illegal to import a skyline at this time and drive it on the road. I want one so bad it hurts, but I’m not willing to take the chance of having my car confiscated and either shipped back to japan, or demolished. Spending the kind of money you would on getting one here would not be worth it. You have the potential to lose over $40K easy. I don’t know about the rest of you, but I can’t part with that kind of money very easily.
Only Legal way to own a Nissan Skyline for legal road use:
1. Find a legal sale of a previously motorex made legal skyline.
2. Wait for the new GTR to become availble.
3. Wait for the 25 year law on vehicle importation to come around.
That’s it people. Good Luck! Drive Safe! Do It Right!! (and legal)
