Now all that’s left is to keep my fingers crossed. All the documents have been collected, packed into an envelope, and sent to TDT. While we’re at it, it’s worth noting the irony of living in a country where a 17-character VIN format (ISO 3779) was encoded into law, and then an institution was created to grant exemptions, yet it has only a single office for the entire country.

In Poland, vehicles with VIN numbers that do not follow the standard 17-character format must obtain an official exemption from TDT to be legally registered. Although the required documents are clearly listed on the website, the process appears to have a certain entropy embedded, both in terms of the time it takes and the final outcome.

• Impreza
• Gc8
• Type-R