[lfodofod]

From an European perspective the idea of a government registry tracking vehicle ownership seems downright bizarre. Our DMVs generally just track keepers and not owners.

For land it makes sense, but cars? why?

[detaro]

... as if we don't have vehicle registration certificates and databases of them in Europe?

[lfodofod]

Vehicle registration has nothing to do with ownership, you don’t have to own a car to register it.

In Europe we don’t have titles for cars like in the US. You don’t have to perform a weird ritual of signing over the title to sell a car, you don’t need a written contract at all.