Depends on your situation, over here VRT kills prestige cars, you can't even enter a Maserati on the government calculator as it is classed as a specialist car which means you have to ring them and they can make up a number. The only way around this is get something over 30 years old and an early 90s Biturbo era car is pretty close to that, a good 222 SR or Racing would be high on my list as a realistic daily drive Maser
I looked at an 07 QP5 in Bluebell on at 17k Euro, VRT paid, Dublin plate, so seller was telling me if I took it back to UK I'd get 7k Euro back. Think also I read somewhere the percentage OMSP they use for Masers etc is 39% so sounds about right.
Having said that, I've been in Dublin two years out of the last three in the QP still on yellow plates and never been stopped by the guards, I reckon they think it belongs to the Kinehan gang or something. They did stop me for a weapons search once and once for an no reason I couldn't fathom on Dollymount Road, 6:00am on way to early ferry. Never asked me anything at all or spoke to me. The Mrs has been stopped three times in a year by the guards, twice for yellow plates (resulting in a visit by the Revenue and a fine) and once to be breathalysed outside the Hole in the Wall near Phoenix Park at Xmas. 6:30pm, what a daft time to catch drunk drivers - before they get drunk and drive!! She was clear by way, as you'd expect...
The whole VRT thing stinks, you're not even allowed to sell a car you've imported (VRT exempt) that you've owned in UK for six months or more for 12 months, which must be against every trading law in the book. I'm sure you can't be forced to keep something I mean like what happens if you need the money?
Here's a strange non-related thing, I installed RTE Player on my Apple TV when in Dublin, brought it to UK, got locked down, and it still works here in UK. Odd since BBC iPlayer is geo-blocked in Ireland, and I can't use the RTE Player on on Macs here.
Not really interesting, there's feck all on RTE anyway.