I live in San Diego and the car came in thru the port at Long Beach (2 hour drive north). I paid for the car 5 days before receiving it. We did all the paperwork on a Saturday and the car was off-loaded in Long Beach on Tuesday or Wednesday and then transported to the dealer on Thursday morning. I took delivery on that Thursday night. The car came straight from Japan on a ship and was not transfered from another dealer or anything like that. The dealer gave me a print out the day I bought the car with the make, color, vin, packages, etc... I'll have to find that when I get hom and see if there is any more info on it.