Why Will The R35 Gtr Be Cheaper In Usa Then Aus?

[minix3]

Not really Fussed how many they make! just a bit Disapointed how much it cost for a car 2 years old when it gets to Aus!!!

X2.. having said that.. my 'dissapointment' wouldn't stop me from buying one if i could afford it. maybe i should sell my car, my parents car and the bf's car to buy one when it gets here. [sorry scathing =p]

Edited December 27, 2007 by minix3

[Styline GTR]

X2.. having said that.. my 'dissapointment' wouldn't stop me from buying one if i could afford it. maybe i should sell my car, my parents car and the bf's car to buy one when it gets here. [sorry scathing =p]

Lol!

[scathing]

If you're buying the R35 for me, then its OK.

Just read Wheels Magazine's review and the thing sounds tasty. I want one.

[Brockas]

Cars in the US are dirt cheap. I'm here in the US right now.

To give you an idea:

2001 Dodge Viper - $45,600 AUD

2003 Lamdo Gallardo - $152,000 AUD

2005 Aston Martin DB9 - $148,700 AUD

2000 Ferrari 360 Modena - $120,000 AUD

2006 BMW M6 coupe - $91,400 AUD

2007 Corvette Z06 - $68,500 AUD

See what I mean?

The GTR will HAVE to be bloody cheap to sell at all here, otherwise it'll be competing with the likes of Aston's, Lambo's, and Ferrari's. It's a good car, but it wont be considered an exotic here.

[ausgtr]

Cars in the US are dirt cheap. I'm here in the US right now.

To give you an idea:

2007 Corvette Z06 - $68,500 AUD

Don't know where you go that price from, Z06's sell for $70 000 US (S81 000 AUD)with not option or dealer mark ups.

[ian]

Sorry to sound like a broken record (again) but the reason that the cost here is so much higher is simple..

1) taxes, specifically the LCT which all cars pay and does nothing to 'protect' the 'local' assemblers

2) Even more importantly, the anti anticompetitive import laws that stop you importing cars - this allows manufactures to sell cars at widely different prices in different markets.

The price they sell it at virtually has nothing to do with what it costs to make - it's at what price they will maximize their profit. Often, as someone commented above, this means making sure a new car doesn't compete with an existing one...

With every other thing you buy in Australia, it doesn't work like this, as you are allowed to import just about everything else - so if the local distributer charges too high a price, you can just bring it in yourself from where they sell it cheaper..

With cars you aren't allowed to do this, something that makes the car manufacturers very happy....

Ian

[Styline GTR]

Crazy Taxes!!!!! Extortion !!

[wizlb]

Hello People

I am an American living here in Sydney for about a year now. I did a lot of research on the price of cars here before coming to Australia and found the price of a car to damn funny for words. I am not to sure why the price of a car is so high today compare to lets say 10 to 15 years when the Australia dollar was a little lower. But the Australia dollar is 89 cents to an America dollar.

In American my friend purchased a new 335 turbo BMW for only 49K out the door. but here it's over 100K and the cheap Bimmer like the 320 for 85K is a joke.

I understand the european dollar is might damn high compare to the Australia dollar and they try to recoup that margin somewhere,

But this what I heard from my job

Corporations want to have uniform pricing across the global so they can forcasting revenue better.

So if you come from a country with less people blame the cost of goods on corporations....or your parents.

Whichever one you can get to first.

just my pennies.....

[HotPlates]

For the most part cars that are from, say Japan or Germany for example, are cheaper in their home country, but more expensive outside of it due to taxes imposed by the country it is being imported to. But when it comes to Australia, we sell our cars cheaper overseas than we do locally. Now I'm not trying to do a comparison here between Japanese, German and Australian cars to justify this thinking (or lack of it), but this is really backward! I know of re-badged Holden's being sold in Saudi Arabia, England and America at much cheaper prices than sold in Australia. By and large, these 'Holden's' aren't bad cars either as Top Gear has pointed out on a few occassions now.

So is this just primarily due to Holden wanting to get a 'footing' in these other markets? (although Saudi Arabia has been well established for a while now) Or is there something I am missing here? Last time I checked, our Holden's (as an all round car) being exported to the U.S. as Pontiacs are a much better car than most of their local brands.

[ORIGIN]

higher priced here due to the buyers they will attract ?

not to mention the governing body wants the general populace to drive the slowest vehicles possible reducing road fatalities etc ?

lol its not the cars we drive its them that have to pull there finger out and fix the bloody roads!!! i dont know about any other city but brisbane's roads are shocking, they are uneven and have pot holes everywhere!!! anyway back on topic i was kinda hoping the us didnt get them either but the amount of sales they will make over there will be good for nissan so im happy with that

[Styline GTR]

Yeah When i was in Darwin,there roads were SHOCKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[tridentt150v]

Not only is Australia selling the Pontiac in the USA, but they are supposed to be doing it for around 40% of the price you could by the evuivalent model Holden here............so its all a big big rip off!!!

Using that example, we could make the GTR35 here and sell it cheap all over the world except in Australia where we would sucker up and pay $$$ + 120%. The gov't and the 'local' car industry are treating the import/export system as a sacred cash cow.

[Brockas]

Don't know where you go that price from, Z06's sell for $70 000 US (S81 000 AUD)with not option or dealer mark ups.

Just reading those prices directly from the autotrader I had.

Obviously not new, but a 2007 model.