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Re:How Tesla is Circumventing Dealerships by cantankerous on Wednesday September 05, 2012 @11:55AM (#4479907)
That's a really astute observation. I've heard of people doing this before, but didn't realize that the whole auto-vacation was about a tax dodge. Really interesting.
Re:How Tesla is Circumventing Dealerships by joezydeco on Wednesday September 05, 2012 @12:07PM (#4479971)
The BMW fan wiki suggests that's not a tax/tariff dodge as much as the fact that BMW doesn't pay the incentive payment to dealers for euro delivery cars:

http://www.bimmerfest.com/wiki/index.php/ED_Summary#Why_is_E...