Not sure if this directly answer the question but i throw my 2 pence worth.
Back in late nineties i imported a MR2 from Japan (those days Sterling was strong & ER favoured us). I bought the car via online auction (
). I then used an agent in NL to import & temporally register the car (just to avoid all kinds of grief with UK authorities). The agent did all the work for me and when the car was ready to take away he called me and i flew to NL & drove the car back to the UK. Once in UK got the fog lamps and speedo sorted and then took my baby for the MOT which she passed that with flying colours (she was only 4 years old). I did have some problem getting the car insured due to the modifications (Skirting, 17' alloys, stiffen suspension etc) but bit of research sorted that out to. All in all it was very simple and straight forward and using the agent in NL helped a lot.
I would suggest to use an agent in the EU to do the run around for you but if you are importing in UK then you will still have LHD car on RHD roads!
good luck
cheers