Cyprus Auto News

The Golf is Volkswagen’s best-selling model worldwide and sold more than 300,600 units during the first six months of this year, equating to a sales increase of ten percent against the first half-year of 2006. Some 61,500 units were sold in Germany alone, corresponding to a rise of 5.7 percent. The second-largest “Golf country” is the United Kingdom, while the Golf’s biggest overseas market is the USA.
Source: VW Press Release

We all know that you do not get near what your car is worth when you go to the dealer to trade it in. The reason why most people do that though is that selling it on your own can be difficult. The most difficult part of selling your car can be getting people to actually see it and then connect with them.

One site that help in that area is icars.com.cy . iCars has cars for sale from private owners to various dealers across Cyprus.

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Cars from member states of the European Union - On payment of excise duties and VAT

1. Community status of the vehicle
Goods in free circulation in the EU move from one member state to another without payment of further customs import duty. To be exempt from paying further import duty in Cyprus, proof of Community status of the goods must be provided. If you are transferring to Cyprus a car for private use from another member state, you may prove its Community status by producing:

• T2L or Τ2LF document; or
• the number plates and the vehicle registration document issued by previous member state.

The T2L or Τ2LF document can be obtained from the previous member state Customs Service or through your vehicle supplier or shipper. Read the rest of this entry »

This is the fourth generation of Mercedes’ smallest and most affordable saloon - an S-Class in miniature if you like, and a direct challenger to BMW’s dominant 3 Series and Audi’s popular A4.
Though in fact, this C-Class is less of a miniature of its limo big brother than the last, Mercedes anxious to vest the car with a visual character of its own that’s more dynamic and athletic. It’s a look intended to appeal to the more youthful driver who currently owns a BMW. But the older Mercedes loyalists have not been forgotten, which is why this car comes with two front grille styles. Read the rest of this entry »

Total registrations of motor vehicles increased by 31.7% in the first quarter of 2007 to 16,325, compared with 12,395 vehicles in the same period of 2006. The boom has come as a result of wide-ranging cuts on all car duties implemented in late 2006.

The government’s cut in excise duties was prompted by the need to cut import taxes on second hand cars after the European Commission said that the high duties on second hand cars were unjustified.
Registrations of private saloon cars increased by 31.6% to 12,262, from 9,316 in January-March 2006.

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