6000 USD for federalization ? You need DOT seats and keys? What we can't have those dangerous European seats and keys . Maybe they're too modern for DOT like the headlights! I hate DOT with a passion and I don't even live in the USA.

Even though we have our own car regulations in Canada, they are almost identical to DOT regulations. The only difference on say a Canadian and American '84 300D Turbo is the speedometer! We have a law that lets you imported any car from any country without doing any conversion work if it is 15 years or older (counted by date of manufacture not model year). This makes importing old Benz's like W123's from Europe quite cheap.