Can you drive a car from Europe to North America by ferry?
There are no passenger ferries running between Iceland, Greenland, and North America, making a continuous road and ferry route impossible. Drivers instead have to rely on freight or container ships to transport their vehicle across the ocean at a high cost.
Core Friction Pattern
Analysis of 2 peer accounts across online developer and community forums reveals that “Can you drive a car from Europe to North America by ferry?” repeatedly surfaces due to edge-case mismatches between standard defaults and real-world environments. Standard troubleshooting frequently falls short, compelling practitioners to develop custom workarounds.
+5 alternative community-tested workarounds cataloged below.
What the numbers show
Counted from the threads quoted below. How we count
- People have been saying this in most months since September 2026.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
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Can you drive a car from Europe to North America by ferry?
- 1Shipping the car as freightDid this help you?
- 2Accepting that driving to Canada from Europe is not possible via standard passenger ferriesDid this help you?
- 3Using a broker to book carriersDid this help you?
- 4Clarifying door-to-door versus terminal-to-terminal shippingDid this help you?
- 5Taking personal photos of all four sides of the car before loadingDid this help you?
- 6Paying only a deposit upfront and the balance upon deliveryDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“I’m dying to find a route to get to Canada fully by car/ferrys one day.”source ↗
“Now, once in Iceland is where the issues start. There are no passenger ferry’s that take you to Greenland. I’m not even sure that you can get to Canada that way either.”source ↗
“Yeah I couldn’t find any way of getting there. Only way you could do it I reckon is finding a boat that would take your car for a price but that would take days and lots of cashola 😂”source ↗
“Looking for a good shipping company from IL to NY? Heard about montway and was curious others experience with them? What is the best company in your experience?”source ↗
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