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ChadTower:

I had a 97 Legacy.  Great car when it ran.  Broke down often.  Cost a testicle to fix anything that went wrong with the AWD system.  Most of the repairs were to the AWD system.

USSEnterprise:
According to Consumer Reports, the 95 wasn't too bad, but after 1996, they sucked

NightGod:
Titles can be a real ---smurfette--- to get again-you'll likely spend a large chunk of the months between now and your 16th working on doing so and they're a nightmare to sell, as well. You'll also have fun finding an insurance company that will insure it once you DO have a title (they call it a "Grey market title"). While your car isn't one that was transfered in from out of countty, it will be the exact same situation. After checking all the major insurance providers when my (ex)-wife got a free car from her sister that had been purchased in Puerto Rico and then shipped to the States by the military, we found exactly one company that would insure it, American Family Insurance.

The real irony is that the car was manufactured 60 miles away from where we live at the Cherry Valley, IL plant

Spaz Monkey:
People lose titles all the time and just getting a dupe is OK.

Here's a link to the Maryland MVA that talks about getting a duplicate title.
http://mva.state.md.us/VehicleServ/REG/titlereg.htm#dupcertificate

If a vehicle is not built to US specifications, and is imported to the US then it is considered a Grey Market vehicle.  This is sounds exactly what happened to NightGod's ex. (Yes I know that Puerto Rico is part of the US, but it is a territory and likes to be self-governing.)  If the car wasn't imported, you shouldn't have any problem about registering the vehicle.  Just be careful about getting plates.  MD is very careful what happens to them.

Lost title != grey market

NightGod:
Most times a seller says that a vehicle has a lost title, they mean that there is no clear title for it-basically there's noone around who can prove that the vehicle belongs to them and that they're authorized to sell it. All sorts of things can cause this, most times (unless it's stolen), it ends up being something like "I bought this car from so-and-so and lost the old title that he had signed transfering ownership. Now (he's dead with no next of kin/I can't find where he lives/he moved to Nigeria to run an e-mail scam network)." In that case, you have to jump through hoops to get a title for it, and it will always be in the same class as Grey market vehicles, at least as far as insurance companies are concerned.

Yeah, if it's just a plain old lost title, no big deal, getting a copy is nothing. But any moderately intelligent seller would know that and would get a copy of a title for a vehicle they're planning to sell (that doesn't discount that this person could be a complete moron, of course). Hell, if it's anything like Illinois, the next time their yearly vehicle registration came up, they'd get a new copy of their title anyway.

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