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Correct, purchasing a car through MAS does not affect you HHG as all vehicles entering the country go through the DoD VPC entity. If you wanted access to your Versys sooner and you were not bringing a car, you can ship it as POV vice in your HHG. My car took around 45 days from the East Coast, my HHG is still in route at 45 days but it cannot be delivered until you find an economy residence (if unaccompanied) whenever it does arrive. Regardless, if you order a car through MAS, it may be a quick delivery or it may take some months to be built and shipped from Germany. Contact the MAS representative from Aviano to inquire about delivery times and availability.

     You will need a car asap when you get here though as everything is not as convenient as in the states and getting around can be a chore without a vehicle. A rental car is an option but it will run you af least 1000€ or more per month. If have to buy a beater until your VW arrives, then that will use up one of your three registrations.

     To be honest, in respect to an actual car, I would skip MAS and just buy a nice used car (automatic) in the states to ship instead (no more than 10K max). Again, Italians are terrible drivers and approx 1 in 3 Americans get in accidents during their tour here. I said accidents, however pretty much everyone gets in random fender benders, end up with random dents that were not there before they parked, or have their side mirrors taken off in traffic by mopeds/motorcycles or the random car/truck driver talking on their mobiles or texting (I have seen moped/motorcycle riders texting while riding...amazingly stupid as it sounds). This is the reason Americans drive beaters here. It is much less stressful when you don't care if a random Italian gets super close to your car in traffic and eventually makes contact or "nudges" you. If you buy a new nice, expensive car and someone hits you in a piece of sh*t Fiat with no insurance, you will be more likely to murder them and end up in the brig versus if you just had a beater instead.

     Also, I say automatic because when you eventually leave, you can sell it easier if it is an automatic as most Italian vehicles are manual. Americans here suck ass at driving manuals in this mountainous terrain, so automatics fetch a higher asking price and are usually worth $1-2K more than the manual equivalent.

I do not know if you are military or not, regardless, per SOFA regulations, you can only register 3 vehicles per tour (to include motorcycles, offroad or not). So unless you are not bringing a POV, I would choose only 1 motorcycle to bring in your HHG. Since the roads are so terrible here, I would lean toward the DSR for the suspension and comfort. But to be honest, I would only buy a used 2016+ that I could get very cheap as you will have no warranty support and Zero will most likely not help you if things went south with your bike. Read some of the European guys on here's woes and issues with support.

   You already have an FXS, so is it reliable and in good condition? Everything is pretty close together here so maybe just bring it and call it a day.

Richard,

     Since this is the LiveWire forum, I think that he was referring to that product and not Zero. Regardless, Harley s just blowing smoke up everyone's ass about a bike in 2019. If they do put anyhting out, it won't be until 2021 or 2022 and it will be outdated, overpriced, and undesirable so that they can say that they tried but consumers are not interested in electric motorcycles... Blah...Blah...blah.

It is the total cost as you have mentioned. Don't mind the sales manager. Enter the figure that you have already quoted. Good luck.

This must be the Ego that fell off of the shipping truck late last year. I was in the bidding for it but the gentleman doing the silent auction came back with a $10K "buy it now" offer that I was not interested in sight unseen and untested for frame damage. Looks like this gentleman bought and had it repaired but I dunno about that eyewatering price considering the history. I'd say maybe $20K max, but more than likely close to $16-18K depending on how it rides and on the repair job. Does this come with a salvage title considering the insurance company totaled it?

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I bid on it and in the end they wanted 10K for it. I passed on it at that time. I could not justify spending that kind of money on a damaged bike sight unseen.