Buying a new car in Germany is a question that interests many car owners. This is due to the traditional love of German cars. And this love is not accidental. The German car industry produces both low-cost Opel and business-class Maybach, sports Porsche, family-owned and affordable Volkswagen. In short, Germany is interesting to all categories of car enthusiasts.

Some people prefer to drive to Europe themselves for cars from Germany, others turn to specialized auto sites. The largest of these is mobile.de, which for many years has been one of the largest car markets of German automotive technology on the Internet. Also popular are sites autoscout24.de and auto.de. All these sites are multilingual, because our compatriots have long chosen them.

What is the use of such sites?

When you visit the German car market, buying a car from Germany is not an easy task. You may not speak German well enough, and you just don’t understand something.

On sites of this type there are detailed descriptions of all sold equipment. Year of manufacture, mileage, fuel that the car consumes, maintenance dates and other necessary data.

Examining several of these car portals, you will receive the necessary information about prices and assortment in the German car markets. For example, the price of a Mercedes Gelendvagen starts from 85,000 euros, if we talk about a new car.

Buying a used car from Germany

About every fifth used car is sold through the mobile.de site mentioned above. The site is not a reseller, performing the function of a platform for bidding and requiring only payment for this service. Considering that almost two and a half million cars are sold on this German site every year, everyone is satisfied.

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Since, as for Germany cars introduced more stringent environmental regulations, many car owners have decided to get rid of old cars that do not meet the modern requirements of environmental organizations. So in recent years there have been many interesting offers.

We all understand that any Audi, or BMW, at the age of five to ten years, will perfectly serve the same amount. Therefore, many CIS residents are actively buying used German cars.

The procedure for buying a car in Germany

If you nevertheless decided to transfer from your six (VAZ 2106) and buy a car from Germany, for example Gelendvagen 2013, then the question arises: do you go there yourself, or use the services of intermediaries. Those who want to go and buy a car should take into account several factors.

• Prices for cars in different cities are not too different. The difference does not exceed five percent.
• In villages and towns a car from Germany is not at all much cheaper.
• In the German car market there is the concept of "Jahreswagenmarkt" - cars that are not more than a year old, with low mileage. This is due to the fact that many factories allow their employees to buy a car at a very big discount once a year. As a result, those annually get rid of almost new cars with low mileage.
• You can be deceived even in the prestigious autoshop. When it comes to used cars, store owners cannot know many details about it. Only the owner of the car can know all the nuances about it.
• You have the right to reduce the price, or terminate the contract, if after purchase you have discovered defects, unspecified consequences of accidents, or some of the properties indicated in the description do not correspond to reality.
• Do not forget about the insurance (Doppelkarte).

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Customs clearance of German cars

Customs clearance is the main headache of everyone who is trying to take a car out of Germany and Europe as a whole, the USA, Japan, etc. This is due to not the most convenient legislation and taxation relating to vehicles that our compatriots bring from abroad.

Here is a video on how to buy a car in Germany: