dat dude

I was looking at the price difference on Lexus USA vs Canada and damn it's a staggering 20k!!! Kinda wishing I lived in the U.S the cars there are much cheaper.
Besides the ovbvious dollar and market difference, does anyone know why there is such a difference? Those two factors alone cannot justify 20k.

boriii

Probably just purely market difference and what kind of trade agreements between countries? Better than being in Singapore and having to pay 80k usd for a honda fit and you have to pay for an ownership certificate which costs tens of thousands. Sucks for them

05RollaXRS

Price difference is a lot smaller than you think. It is just unfortunate that the base RC-F being sold here is loaded with all possible options except the 'carbon fiber performance package'. The base model RC-F on lexus.com is a stripped out model with a lot of option packages available.

If you equip an RC-F with the same option packages on lexus.com, it will come very close in pricing.

p.s. BTW, RC-F is being sold for $160K in Australia. It suddenly does not look so bad.

SDEngineer

The Canadian dollar isn't exactly equal to the US dollar. The current exchange rate is $0.89 US == $1 Canadian. So the US dollar equivalent is $71900 or thereabouts.

And all Candian RC-F's come standard with the Premium package, the ML/Navigation package, leather seats, and the All-Weather package, which would add up to about a $70000 base price in US dollars - so you Canadians aren't paying much more than we are, you just don't have a stripped option.

As far as the Australians go - well, in addition to the currency conversion ($0.87US == $1 AU), they have a really high luxury car tax (about 33%), as well as import taxes and normal sales and use taxes - in much of the world, including Australia, prices are all-inclusive, so the MSRP for Australia should include all applicable taxes. Which is still very very high - roughly the equivalent of 127K US dollars (backing out a ~9.5% average US sales tax) - taking the 33% luxury tax out would have it work out to about $96K US - still quite high, but more understandable, since Australia doesn't have nearly the market for luxury cars as the US.

aWorkOfArt

$20k thats alotta mula... I could only imagine how much you had to pay for your GTR

05RollaXRS

As many people have stated, price is very close. Just that in US, they offer a base stripped out car at $62,000. Here they don't offer that. Only a fully loaded RC-F is offered with all of the possible amenities on it. Only option that could be added is the 'carbon performance package with TVD'.

ForzaF

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Yup you are correct I was just going to add plus paying $650 extra for the USB 2.0 and Infrared.

It was the same scenario with the Isf we had the series 2 package that the only difference was having the navigation and ML sound system from the base model.

dat dude

I guess when you factor all that in it makes sense. But there are many options in the RCF that I find unnecessary.

dat dude

I bought the GTR used haha. But the GTR only has a 8k difference between the two countries certainly better than the RCFs difference.