US vs. CAN pricing
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US vs. CAN pricing
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.
Besides the ovbvious dollar and market difference, does anyone know why there is such a difference? Those two factors alone cannot justify 20k.
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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
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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.
Besides the ovbvious dollar and market difference, does anyone know why there is such a difference? Those two factors alone cannot justify 20k.
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.
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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.
Besides the ovbvious dollar and market difference, does anyone know why there is such a difference? Those two factors alone cannot justify 20k.
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.
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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'.
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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.
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.
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