Can Tundras from out of state(New Mexico) be registered in CA?

Of course you can the dealer that told you that must have been from Cal rite!! I bought my Tundra in Colorado and all they did was mail Title/Registration to MVD in ABQ!! Just get the adress where you will register the vehicle in CAL and bring with you to NM and NM will give you a temp tag and finance officer will need to know what tax rate you pay in Cal to do your paper work so that is the most important issue to get your taxes correct from jump street cause i paid too much and took for ever to get NM to give me my excess taxes i paid !!. This is not rocket science buying an outta state vehicle! i am thinking about doing a FJ from Cal and why would this be an issue?? New Mexico is in the US by the way!! The issue is doing a proper break-in when you drive it back to Cal , you need to vary the speed for the first 500 miles and matted accelerator is an option but not a good one!! worked for me but i only did it for first 100 miles then i relaxed for the next 400 miles. really a non issue but they say to vary speeds and time you are at those speeds!! I hear their are a couple cheap FJ's in state with manual transmissions that are going real cheap!! wife needs new toy!!

Bought my new Tundra in NM and drove it to Texas without paying any tax. Dealer put a temp tag on it and sent me the Toyota Certificate of Origin via overnight mail once he got it in a few days from Toyota. I did the tax and titling on my own. So Toyota Financial basically financed the whole sales amount minus TT&L and no down payment and I paid the TT&L on my own with Toyota Finance shown as lienholder for purposes of mailing a newly issued title to them. So my check to the tax office in TX for licensing and registration could be indirectly construed as my down payment.

If you do buy out of state and the dealer insists on collecting tax make sure there is a repricosity tax agreement between the dealer's state and your home state. Then all you have to do is pay the difference or wait for a refund (which would be painfully long as is the case whever the government owes you something). I bought a truck in FL and had to pay tax there and thankfully their taxes were lower so I only paid the difference to TX when I got home.