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How cars are bought at US auctions, what the turnkey price includes, what to check in a history report and how long delivery takes — from KTrans.
The end of August is not a “dead season” but the moment when the order date decides whether you will be driving your own car this fall. We go through the timeline math, the model year changeover at US auctions and why right now a lot description needs to be read twice as carefully.
Import duty, excise tax and VAT — how they are calculated, what each part depends on and why electric cars and hybrids stand apart. How the calculation works, without made-up figures.
Where cars at US auctions come from, how insurance auctions differ from dealer auctions, who is allowed to bid and how the bidding itself works.
The auction bid is only the first line on the bill. We go through every part of the final amount: auction fees, logistics within the USA, the ocean, customs payments, certification and registration.
Lot photos, damage codes, the title and the Run and Drive mark: what of this really tells you about the condition of a car from a US auction, and what is misleading.
We go through delivery of a car from the USA stage by stage: from winning the lot to the license plates. Where the weeks of waiting hide, what really shifts the timeline and how to keep the process under control.
A project lasting several months, a seasonal peak, a van for one-off transport or testing a model before buying — we look at when renting a car in Kyiv is better value than owning one.