CA Registration only took 7 months.....

California has always been unfriendly to residents buying vehicles out-of-State, or bringing in vehicles from out-of State. The laws of the past have been the result of lobbyists for California car dealers. Until the late 90's, out of State vehicles were hit with a $300 Smog Fee. The CA Supreme Court finally called it an illegal tax and DMV was order to refund millions. More recent, was a 7500 mile rule, which meant a new vehicle bought, or brought in from out of State, couldn't get registered (beget some exceptions) until it was a used vehicle at 7501 miles. Now that 7500 rule just applies to "49 State" vehicles that need to be CA smog certified. Once upon a time, if you brought a vehicle in from out of State, and it couldn't pass a CA smog check the very first time, you were given a 72 notice to remove the vehicle from California. Regardless of changes in recent years, CA DMV will put you threw a lot of hoops when it comes to emigrating a vehicle. The main drive to keep Californians from buying out of State vehicles, is the fact that, California vehicles sell new or resell used 7-20% more dollars than the rest of the country.