Shawn
Lexus? Oh shi-
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The name Kowalski just popped into my head.
Most of my knowledge about the US is from movies and what I learnt from "Vanishing Point" is that at least in the 70s, there were car delivery agencys where you could hire someone to drive the car to the destination for you. Maybe that would be an option if you want to avoid the hazzle of driving yourself?
(I'd just recommend to drive, but if you don't want to...)
But part of the issue with driving it is the mileage I'd put on my car... coming down here I did a scenic route and enjoyed myself over the span of a week so it was worth the 2,600km on the odometer of my new car.
I'm not keen to double that just to get my car back home without any enjoyment involved, that's why I'm looking at shipping and why getting someone else to drive it isn't an option in my case.
Our family shipped our minivan from the SF Bay Area to the East coast of Saudi Arabia for $1k in 2004, and it came through in excellent condition (before they took the car, they did a very exhaustive inspection of the bodywork in front of us, noting down the tiniest of scratches so they couldn't be blamed for any of them). I'll ask my mother what the name of the company was when I chat with her tomorrow morning.
EDIT: The company is Dependable Auto Shippers.
Just $1000 to ship it all the way to the Middle East?
That's a hell of a deal... even economy class plane tickets for one person to that part of the world are more than that last I checked.
They want about $800 to ship it just three states or 2,000km for me...
I think I might just wait out the winter here and then do a fun roadtrip back up myself... this shipping thing doesn't look like a good idea. The whole process is so precarious... they give you a multiple day pickup window and a multiple day dropoff window, and they don't even guarantee those in any way.