The Irish Mitsubishi FTO Owners Club

Hi There,

My name is Patrick, 25 yrs old, and I'm living in The Netherlands .
Since a few weeks, I am the proud owner of a 1994 FTO GPX






The UK licence plates are still fitted, but tomorrow I'm going to the Dutch customs who are going to check the car, so that I can put some Dutch licence plates on it .

I've looked on this forum several times for some tips & tricks and also if I have some questions regarding technical issues (or something like that), I think this is the best place to be, because there aren't many FTO's in Holland

If you got any questions, just ask

Nice alloys there. I think that there was another Dutch guy on here a few years back, so you're not the first. Must be great to see all the heads turning over there as there's probably only a couple of FTOs in Holland.

The alloys do look nice, but they are quite damaged and need to be replaced. But I noticed that there was another Dutch guy here on the forum. FTO's are quite rare in Holland.
I've seen Aston Martins, Spykers, buggati's, but never a FTO. But it's a real head turner and I wouldn't be supprised if there are less then 20 FTO's in Holland

Nice ride Patrick .
How much you have to pay to register the car there?

and how hard will it be for you to drive ''on the other side'' ?

the alloys are vrey simmilar with my old ones (wolfrace triad)

tnx

It will cost me about 150 Euro (including taxes) to register the car. It took some time getting used to sit on the other side, but after a few days I did not know better .
Because it's an 4spd A/T, I didn't have to worry about the shifting

But man.... What a car! I used to drive in an Alfa Romeo 156, but this car handles much better

prowler wrote:It will cost me about 150 Euro (including taxes) to register the car

F*ck me pink and sideways.

optical illusion wrote:

prowler wrote:It will cost me about 150 Euro (including taxes) to register the car

F*ck me pink and sideways.

For 150.

LOL

Today was the day. This morning I went to the RDW (the Dutch version of the NCTS) for a check up. This went fine and the only thing left to do, was to pay the BPM (dutch version of the vehicle registration tax).
Total costs: 135,95 euro .

The FTO is now registered on my name, and I have to wait a few days for the new vehicle registration certificate. Once I have these, I can get my new license plates

here is a picture of this morning, taken at the RDW:

Just to give your day a little lift...

When I brought my car in from England in 2007, it cost me €2800 to register it here.

prowler wrote:Total costs: 135,95 euro

Twice.

Once pink and once sideways like!

Bernard wrote:Just to give your day a little lift...

When I brought my car in from England in 2007, it cost me €2800 to register it here.

DAMN ! Don't you guys get some kind of discount?
In Holland, If a car is new, than we (the Dutch people) need to pay something like that. If it's a used car, then we get a discount depending on what the new price is of the car and on how old the car is.
Because my FTO is 17 yrs old, I got a discount of 99,553%

Sometimes it isn't that bad to live in Holland