Detective work

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>>17398860
I threw it into the plate to make/model thing, and it said a "2001 eagle" with no other description. Kinda weird bc usually this website either has the full info or nothing at all. Also was eagle even a brand in 2001?

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>>17398869
next I put it into a plate to vin website. It eventually spit out the vin and...

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>>17398874
the result was the VIN was to a 2001 renault. So it's probably in here legally somehow... But the slight misspelling on the 9th digit might be something. /o/ lets investigate this

>>17398878
Lets not, I dont want the feds to find out and crush his car

>>17398878
But, this rules out VIN swapping which has been a common guess to how this car is in the US on this website, because that's the vin it's registered with in the system and it goes to the twingo

>>17398884
me neither but the chances the feds browse /o/ are hilariously low

>>17398890
4chin has been a honey pot for at least 8 years now.

delete this fucking thread now

>>17398860
Where is it? I wanna find it, and take pics with it

>>17398860
lol youre going to get this poor guys car crushed

just emailed the chicago cops, hopefully this illegal deaththrap can finally be removed from the streets

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Not Op, but I've just hit his VIN up in yurop, this is what I got, It's pretty modern for a twingo, certainly one of the later ones

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>>17399002
>Alphonse

>>17398890
>100% chance = hilariously low

I mean jalopnik drove a registered citroen c6, so why can't this guy have an older french memebox legally?

How hard is it to mind your own fucking business?

>>17399002
>2001
Really don't want his car to get crushed but...
Don't cars have to be over 20 years old to be legal for import to the US?

>>17399061
25

rip burger twingo you didnt stand a chance

>>17398987
it seems to be abandoned though.

>>1739906
RIP illegal twingo, may you go to 4cyl heaven

>>17399061
25, but ive seen people bring s15s in registered as a 240sx, half the bored DMV clerks dont care

>>17399079
If you bring the car in, swap the vin tags to an existing US titled vehicle, the clerks at the DMV won't even have a reason to know. Only if you're getting a vin verification would they possibly catch it.

>>17398987
No you didn't, and they ain't gonna do shit

>>17399097
this is a felony if you're caught.

But, seeing as the plate is registered to a renault this can't be the case

>>17399184
US protectionist laws are pretty aids

>can import a tin can death trap Morris Mini from the 60s
>can't import the same car with some airbags from the 90s because "safety"
Really gets the noggin joggin

>>17399206
You can thank Mercedes-Benz.

>>17399211
You mean the corrupt government

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>>17399216
It was literally Mercedes that paid the corrupt government you mong.

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Hello. I am the person who initially uploaded OP's pic to 4chan yesterday. Here is the source, if it helps. Pic related.

facebook , c o m /groups/PetroleYUM/permalink/1106047899507416/?match=cmVuYXVsdA==

>>17399229
literally the corrupt government that accepted payment from AMERICAN merc DEALERS

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Leave Twingo alone!!!

>>17399211
LOL.
It's your commie guvment that doesn't like competition. Europeans and Japs have been making economically speaking better cars for decades. The only way US carmakers could thrive was to limit the US market by handicapping foreign make.
Unless you work for a US carmaker you are actually paying for people that have an economically unprofitable job. If you work for a US carmaker you simply get statefunding.
In a lot of fields the united states are pretty free. In trade they are not.

>>17399241
Location fagget

>>17399264
polis are coming

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MFW I just realized I have had a pic of this exact twingo on my phone for 6 months already
I remember I just googled "Twingo america" or something back then, lol.

>>17399285
aving a shit at home m8

>>17399229
>gubmint gaping its ass for lobbying
>somehow it's the lobby's fault

>>17399277
Mercedes lobbied real hard for the import restriction because people were importing Euro-spec models that were better specced and overall just plain superior to the US-spec models for cheaper than the US-spec models. It was literally jewery on Mercedes' part.

Why would anyone go through the hassle to import a fucking twingo? That's top autism, right there.

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>>17398860

>>17399298
Nobody's denying Mercedes' motivation, but only in corporate America did they get the government's attention. Even in their homeland imports aren't illegal.

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>>17398860

FOUND

https://www.flickr.com/photos/7937450@N07/2766521808/

>>17399298
>Mercedes lobbied.. [citation needed]
Sounds like a bit of scapegoat story.
And how the hell would one (1) foreign company be powerfull enough to impose a tradetariff with which the citizens of that country can be ripped off?!?

>>17399359
And to add to that... if it's clearly beneficial to mercedes, at the expense of US citizens... WHY WOULDN'T THEY REVERSE IT?
You can't blame it all on foreign companies buying power in washington. at the end of the day it's your elected government. and all democracies get the leaders they deserve..

>>17399359
To be fair Detroit massively benefitted from it as well, and Detroit is Washington's dearest child. They were just lucky that Mercedes was asking for the ban so they couldn't be blamed for it.

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I think the owner might be Mexican

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>>17399314
he does look like an actual /o/tist tbf

>>17399383
Fuck, so Twongi drivers DO get all the girls!

>>17399391
>he does look like an actual /o/tist tbf

picture is from 2008/09 and /o/ noticed the twingo around 2012

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>>17399383

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>>17399399

>>17399383
I think he's Uruguayan, which is pretty based because...
I'm Uruguayan.

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If you convert a Neon to a Twingo, gradually, at which point does it become illegal?

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>>17399406

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>>17399392

grills also love the plushies

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>>17399392

In his new reincarnation, the Supreme Gentleman will finally get his grillfriend now that he's a Twingoman and not a dirty BMW pleb

>>17399454
I still wonder if those photos were coincidence or if he's aware of his similarities and did those for the shits and giggles

>>17399463
i think he posted them in the twingo thread

>>17399298
It was the dealers losing money, not mercedes

>>17399454
B A S E D twingotard

>>17399359
Because Americans love protectionism, and it was Mercedes of America, not Mercedes International.

hypothetically someone could get away with vin swapping a geo metro

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>>17399454
This guy looks even more like Nakazato than Rodger did.

MASAKA

>>17398890
>one of the largest forums in the world
>LOL NO ONE KNOWS ABOUT OUR SEKRET CLUB THAT'S BEEN AROUND SINCE 2003!!!

>>17400744

I'm officially spoopy'd now

>>17400744
nakazato is an elliot

i thought there was a law that allows foreigners moving to the usa to bring their car with them?

>>17402981
Only if they're diplomats or some shit

Saw some third world van with the steering on the wrong side in NYC with Arabic plates

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>>17398878
It ain't 2001 for sure
It has lower number than mine '97
There is no yearcode in twingo's vin, these decoders are shit
also:
prefacelift with third brake light means it's 3rd phase produced between mid 1996-late 1997. 1149cc D7F engine and grey interior dials/ upholstery with fishies.

>>17403126
This man knows his stuff

in next April American can get twingos anywas

i wonder if this person browses /o/

>>17403126
>tfw getting banana dials means giving up the classic orange indicators unless you do some frankensteining

>>17399314
>>17399358
So it came from Florida where imports are aplenty.

>>17399370
>government has never done anything at the expense of the people

Wew

>>17403757
>some frankensteining
its not that hard to replace the headlights or the front bumper, they're pretty cheap and they bolt right in. Might have to change the hood though, not sure about the fitment of new and old headlights

You must literally have no life to track done a fucking car and try to out it for being here.

>>17399359
No citation needed. Read up the act (don't remember the name) it was made in 1989. It says exactly what he just said.