nice guy from norway
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nice guy from norway
.. ok was sitting at the beach for one of my classes, next to my car, doing my thing listening to my music and some guy comes up starts knocking on my rearend 
.. at first i'm just thinking to myself wtf is he doing .. i'm about to get p!ssed when i say excuse me, can i help you with something? very polite but assertive as well.
he asks me if that was my car .. so i replied yes, it was.
so he explained how he had a corvette too but it was back in norway, 1988 or something and we had a very nice conversation regarding corvettes and importing them into norway / europe .. apparently my '03 new over there would be be about 150k, something them taxing based on horsepower ratings
anyway he was a very nice guy, seemed very knowledgable too
i pointed him towards the forum .. so hopefully he'll read this.
find the nicest people in the strangest places sometimes.
.. at first i'm just thinking to myself wtf is he doing .. i'm about to get p!ssed when i say excuse me, can i help you with something? very polite but assertive as well.
he asks me if that was my car .. so i replied yes, it was.
so he explained how he had a corvette too but it was back in norway, 1988 or something and we had a very nice conversation regarding corvettes and importing them into norway / europe .. apparently my '03 new over there would be be about 150k, something them taxing based on horsepower ratings
anyway he was a very nice guy, seemed very knowledgable too
i pointed him towards the forum .. so hopefully he'll read this.
find the nicest people in the strangest places sometimes.
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Originally Posted by EHS
For the old guys -- "Manny" was a Norwegian Corvette Club Guy -- he wore an ascot -- who would post here very regularly.
He was always right.
Haven't heard from him since.
He was always right.
Haven't heard from him since.
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Originally Posted by Neablas
find the nicest people in the strangest places sometimes.
I finally met him today. Such a down to earth guy. He let me fire up the Lambo and now wants to go with us to Bradenton on 4/30 to hit the 1/4 track.
I can't believe it's taken this long to finally run into the guy but we're both usually gone,
He sounds like he's from Kentucky or Tennessee, around 40, with a complete lack of pretense 
Good story!
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Originally Posted by WellAdjusted
That's a true story. I moved into a new apartment 1st of Feb and found I had a neighbor in the same building with a triple black vert sitting outside the garage to make room for the Lambo
I finally met him today. Such a down to earth guy. He let me fire up the Lambo and now wants to go with us to Bradenton on 4/30 to hit the 1/4 track.
I can't believe it's taken this long to finally run into the guy but we're both usually gone, He sounds like he's from Kentucky or Tennessee, around 40, with a complete lack of pretense
Good story!
I finally met him today. Such a down to earth guy. He let me fire up the Lambo and now wants to go with us to Bradenton on 4/30 to hit the 1/4 track.
I can't believe it's taken this long to finally run into the guy but we're both usually gone,
He sounds like he's from Kentucky or Tennessee, around 40, with a complete lack of pretense Good story!
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cool! yeah...us Norwegians are very nice 
The taxes in Norway are based on engine size, HP, etc...
Currently it has the highest prices on cars in the world i believe. The Dodge Viper is insanley $$ with that 8.0 liter engine and 450HP lol. I think it costs around $200,000 - 300,000 for one...
I think they are re-evaluating the tax structure for import fees based on huge critisism and EU rules (although they arent a part of EU, they do comply with certain rules based on trade nego.). Also i think its total crap that the average citizen has to drive around in below decent small *** cars and pay the same price as much cheaper cars (ie. Sweden)...and a big thing is that these crap small cars are much more unsafe, which is a huge issue.
ah well, just my .02
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The taxes in Norway are based on engine size, HP, etc...
Currently it has the highest prices on cars in the world i believe. The Dodge Viper is insanley $$ with that 8.0 liter engine and 450HP lol. I think it costs around $200,000 - 300,000 for one...
I think they are re-evaluating the tax structure for import fees based on huge critisism and EU rules (although they arent a part of EU, they do comply with certain rules based on trade nego.). Also i think its total crap that the average citizen has to drive around in below decent small *** cars and pay the same price as much cheaper cars (ie. Sweden)...and a big thing is that these crap small cars are much more unsafe, which is a huge issue.
ah well, just my .02
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I thought this was some start of some raunchy San fran outing...
".. ok was sitting at the beach.....listening to my music and some guy comes up starts knocking on my rearend "
Time to ebay my car in Norway!! That's crazy....but I heard the speeding tickets are also based on percent of salary...didn't the CEO of Nokia get fined something like $40,000 last year for speeding...it's pretty nuts..
".. ok was sitting at the beach.....listening to my music and some guy comes up starts knocking on my rearend "
Time to ebay my car in Norway!! That's crazy....but I heard the speeding tickets are also based on percent of salary...didn't the CEO of Nokia get fined something like $40,000 last year for speeding...it's pretty nuts..
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Originally Posted by z06cab
....but I heard the speeding tickets are also based on percent of salary...didn't the CEO of Nokia get fined something like $40,000 last year for speeding...it's pretty nuts..
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Originally Posted by willpall
Actually, the guy was originally fined $12,500,000 !! The fine was "14 days of income" which, for the CEO in 1999 was 12.5 mil. The fine was later reduced because his income that year was out of the ordinary (cashed in stock options and such) and also because his current income at the time of the citation (2001) was lower anyway. Here's a link with some details. BBC News
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Originally Posted by BickyDhadwal
THATS INSANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Originally Posted by z06cab
I thought this was some start of some raunchy San fran outing...
".. ok was sitting at the beach.....listening to my music and some guy comes up starts knocking on my rearend " ..
".. ok was sitting at the beach.....listening to my music and some guy comes up starts knocking on my rearend " ..
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Originally Posted by Neablas
.. ok was sitting at the beach for one of my classes, next to my car, doing my thing listening to my music and some guy comes up starts knocking on my rearend
anyway he was a very nice guy
anyway he was a very nice guy
Kyle...I hope you used protection!
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Originally Posted by finnor
It may sound insane at first, but if you make $1 Million a year, whats a $250 ticket? If you make $20,000 a year, it's a bigger deal. The point is that a flat fee is regressive, in other words it hurts those with less income proportionately more than those with higher incomes. Like our beloved income tax here, typically those who make more are in a higher tax bracket, and in terms of absolute dollars pay more. That is why a "flat tax" will never fly; it hurts lower income families more than higher. Just my $0.02.
This is the stupidest idea I've ever heard! Fines should be uniform, and a flat tax is the only FAIR tax. Currently, the top 3% of income earners pay over 50% of all taxes. It's completely unfair.
Socialist countries really suck!
