Posted by F Murtz on December 3, 2009, 2:36 am
Elmo P. Shagnasty wrote:
>> For a start our dollar is within a few cents of the US
> Not if Corollas are $0K and Priuses are $0K.
Are you a dill or something? exchange rate has nothing to do with final
prices. ever heard of tax?
Posted by Atheist Chaplain on December 3, 2009, 2:51 am
>> For a start our dollar is within a few cents of the US
> Not if Corollas are $0K and Priuses are $0K.
Toyota thinks they can milk a few extra dollars out of us and put it down to
the limited market here and after all, it has more to do with the exchange
rate between the au dollar and the yen that it does to the greenback. You
also have to remember that car dealers don't generally put prices down if
the exchange rate changes over night, more money in their pockets and all
that, by the same token they generally don't raise the prices if it falls
the other way. Generally they set a middle ground price and wear any short
term losses and might make a mid year adjustment to the price if it falls to
far one way.
They also price the cars at what the market will bear.
and last time I checked(this morning) the aussie dollar was 92 cents to the
US dollar and still climbing.
so how is the greenback comparing internationally at the moment :-)
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Posted by Elmo P. Shagnasty on December 3, 2009, 12:20 pm
> > Not if Corollas are $0K and Priuses are $0K.
>
> What part of our two currencies are very close in value do you *not*
> understand?
The fact that the Corolla that's $3K here is $0K there was the tipoff.
But then, math isn't your strong suit. Actually, nothing is.
Posted by Noddy on December 3, 2009, 12:29 pm
> The fact that the Corolla that's $3K here is $0K there was the tipoff.
> But then, math isn't your strong suit. Actually, nothing is.
Boy, you can smell that irony for miles :)
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Posted by Elmo P. Shagnasty on December 3, 2009, 12:21 pm
> > Not if Corollas are $0K and Priuses are $0K.
>
> What part of our two currencies are very close in value do you *not*
> understand?
>
> Just to clue you in, the base model Prius retails down here for $9,990.00
> while the top of the line job has a sticker price of $3,500.00 (we only
> have two models down here). By comparison, the US variants range from
> $US22,400.00 to $US27,670.00, and that difference in prices has nothing
> whatsoever to do with the difference in currency rates (which, as of right
> now is 7 cents) and everything to do with Toyota's expectations of the
> gullibility of the buyers in the markets they're pushing the things in.
<snort> That's funny. Toyota knows you're idiots, then?
I sense that you're jealous that you can't afford a Prius.
> Not if Corollas are $0K and Priuses are $0K.