Good news for Canadian car buyers. Its a start anyway
09-26-2007, 04:22 PM
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Good news for Canadian car buyers. Its a start anyway
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09-26-2007, 04:23 PM
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Porsche also cutting its prices on 08 models
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09-26-2007, 05:05 PM
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Based on competition
The lawsuit seems tight. Either open cross border shopping which makes the pricing of course FAIR for all those involved...or implement a fluid price yearly that reflects the previous years dollar spreads. The smartest thing would be to allow Canadians to shop with their cash...everything else would sort itself out then naturally. Prices could fall 10 years from now for all I care...but I would not be affected having shopped where I felt like it.
09-26-2007, 05:49 PM
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Be careful what you wish for..... if the CAN dollar drops to almost half that of the US dollar
as it did at one point, it might not be so agreeable to have products tied to US pricing.
Either the US needs to raise it's automobile standards to that of Canada (yeah right), or Canada needs to lower some standards, so that importing into Canada doesn't cause as much additional cost via red tape. Just the infrastructure alone has got to be expensive given how few cars are sold overall.
Either the US needs to raise it's automobile standards to that of Canada (yeah right), or Canada needs to lower some standards, so that importing into Canada doesn't cause as much additional cost via red tape. Just the infrastructure alone has got to be expensive given how few cars are sold overall.
09-27-2007, 04:13 AM
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What does the purchasing power of the dollar in relation to the US$...
have to do with the retail price set by manufactures per region? If anything it is good to adjust these prices down now so that if the dollar does drop again in relation to the US$ there isnt as much of an impact. Believe me there is more then just car prices up here that are out of whack.
They should start treating NA as one region when it comes setting retail prices for certain products. For cars simply adjust the destination rate and PDI to reflect the differences in safety equipment, etc.
They should start treating NA as one region when it comes setting retail prices for certain products. For cars simply adjust the destination rate and PDI to reflect the differences in safety equipment, etc.
09-27-2007, 07:37 AM
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If you are benchmarking US pricing as the appropriate price for Canada, then if the Canadian dollar
drops again......... AoA is raising pricing as fast as the market will bear. All the Germans are in response to fall of the US dollar. Since US pricing is low when compared to the rest of the world, it would be nice to be tied to it, but I don't see the US pricing staying low.
It wasn't long ago that folks from the US were going to Canada to buy cars there because it was cheaper to buy them in Canada than the US. Somebody in the US MUST have sued somebody else about that! ;-)
It wasn't long ago that folks from the US were going to Canada to buy cars there because it was cheaper to buy them in Canada than the US. Somebody in the US MUST have sued somebody else about that! ;-)
09-27-2007, 08:18 AM
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Marginal increases are expected as the market changes we get them here too.
It is the massive discrepancies that are causing the uproar. For example the A3 3.2 starts at ~46k in Canada while it is ~35k in the US. This while the dollar is at par. It is starting to happen now as we see with Porsche.
Given that GWB just asked congress for an additional $190 billion for the war the Loonie will strong for many years to come.
Let the layers work it out.
Given that GWB just asked congress for an additional $190 billion for the war the Loonie will strong for many years to come.
Let the layers work it out.
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09-27-2007, 01:27 PM
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Don't worry it might happen sooner than you think.
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