European Delivery.
Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 8:48 pm
Do US BMW dealers still do this? Buy a bike this side of the Atlantic, pick it up at the factory, tour Europe, ship it home? True cost?
I remember reading maybe twenty years ago that other than sales to active duty service or diplomatic personnel, BMW would not deliver, in Europe, a US-spec motorcycle to a customer. A brief net search just now yields some brochures and discussion, but only regarding European delivery of automobiles.
This MOA page: http://www.bmwmoa.org/ridetour/global_t ... e_delivery says:
The BMW corporate-administered program offering European delivery of new USA or CDN-specification BMW motorcycles to civilian customers ended in 1993; its continuation by BMW dealer BMWNY ended in 1998. US citizens are also not allowed to order US-spec BMW motorcycles directly from European BMW dealers for European delivery. The only exception is that US armed forces personnel in Europe may be able to purchase US-spec BMWs for European delivery by special order through the BMW subsidiary of the country where they're stationed, or through specialty agents in Europe such as http://www.militarysalescenter.comor http://www.bmw-military-sales.com.
So...probably not. Ask your dealer - you'd have to work through him if the program had begun again.