Tell me about moving abroad/Europe with your American car

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If any modifications are required, don’t do it. The car will never be right again, Also, your car will be HUGE on the road. I had what was considered a mid-sized car in the US and it was too wide for some streets in the UK. Euro models are generally narrower than ours. If I had to do it again, I’d sell and get something else there. And I’d also be surprised if you could sell it.

European safety standards for cars are far stricter than the obsolete American standards. Virtually no American-market car is safe enough to meet the much better European standards. Americans drive death traps. You’d never be allowed to have it on the road in Europe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:USA is a car culture. Europe and Asia are rail and public transportation. People do drive but not as much as using public transportation.

You're assuming that they aren't living the a suburb. Europe has those too now.

And except for the UK almost all of the suburbs in Western Europe also have outstanding public transportation. And even in the suburbs of Europe the neighborhoods are way more walkable - for example in Europe everyone walks to school and people commonly walk for a lot of their day to day errands. So it is hard to do more than speculate here as OP hasn't listed where they are going but it is a lot of work to ship a car overseas and OP should expect that in all likelihood wherever they are going they will be driving a lot less because that is what people in Europe do. I'd skip the hassle of moving a car and figure out if you need one once you are there.

We Americans are lazy and frankly ought to be embarrassed about it but hey now we all need 3 row SUVs to drive our 2 kids 4 blocks to school!