ajoknoblauch
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Can not drive out of the country, period
Not quite true. Several years ago, in Puerto Octay, I met a Swiss family who purchased an SUV in Bariloche with the idea of driving the Carretera Austral, but Argentine customs refused to let them take it out of the country because it was a "vehículo nacional" (rather than private property, apparently). They returned to Bariloche and obtained a power of attorney in favor of the seller's brother, who drove the vehicle across the border, whereupon they bought him a bus ticket back to Argentina (yeah, you got that right, they couldn't drive it across the border, but they could authorize someone else to do so).
I did that once, many years ago, with a vehicle purchased from my father-in-law, but we left the car in his name for that reason. Now, though, I own a Chilean car because the chilenos don't care whether or not I'm a resident, or whether I take it across the border.