Dec 16
The Big 3 - Recruitment Poster!
Thanks Big 3 for continuing to screw the Canadian Automobile Consumer!! Thanks Canadian Govt. for your total lack of transparency in this matter.
Oh to be a big 3 lobbyist, sitting in my office in Ottawa plotting out how to screw Canadian Consumers.
Christmas bonuses must be good this year!
December 23rd, 2008 at 11:54 am
So at this dollar level our cars are still over priced? I gather that by the screwing the auto comsumer comment..
I have a Challenger SRT8 which bases here at 47,345 with freight + tax and green levy (joke ass tax). The same car down south is 42,245 which at our level comes in at over 50k, without money spend traveling or shipping. Sad but aqt this point the battlecry of fair pricing is all but irrelevant.
December 23rd, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Sorry we beg to differ, fair pricing and equal treatment of the Canadian Consumer with his/her American cousins is still an issue.
- The Warranty issue is a main stumbling block.
- The govt rules/laws that essentially give the automotive companies in Canada ability to lie, defer to say nothing, and create “non-tarrif” trade barriers need to be changed.
- Why haven’t the auto-bailout plans been made public like they are in the U.S.
- we could go on and on, regarding how our Govt short changes the consumer in favor of the big auto companies.
Just read all the small print when you read a car add and find out just how far the big boys can bend the truth to sway you into buying their product.
As we know now, the market for cars throughout the world is crumbling, which companies do you think will survive? Bailout or no bailout!
True open capitalism, ensures healthy economies and markets; the strong and innovative companies survive, in Canada we don’t appear to have many strong and innovative companies…..
We have homeless people dying in our streets, our bridges and highways are crumbling, we have line-ups to be treated at our hospitals, aboriginal living conditions are horrendous, our high school systems are graduating 6 out of 10 students, … yes go ahead give $4 billion of our hard earned tax money, that we don’t have, to keep GM and Chrysler afloat….. for only a few more years….
Better yet, lets lower the value of our dollar to 50cents, wouldn’t that make our factories more productive?!!
Wake-up Canadians! Tell Harper to stop this madness.
December 24th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
we’re talking about car prices not homeless people dying in the street.
The domestics are not ripping CAR BUYERS off any more or less than the foreign competition is, and we can both weave a poignant soliloquy all day but the reality is imports are way down because there isn’t a financial incentive to do so anymore by your own admission here.
I for one am happy our dollar has slid closer to where it has historically been since that makes our exports more favorable and imports less so. Sadly though it makes badgering auto companies to change their prices irrelevant since many if not most are nowhere near offside.
December 24th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
Aaron, you have some good points, but your thinking like most Canadians these days is very short term.
With the amount of debt the U.S. is taking on to save their Banks, Car Companies etc.. it will only be a matter of time before our dollar is back at par. (Wait till the us govt starts bailing out all of those investors Madoff stole $50 billion from.)
That is of course if Harper and Flaherty backed by the hot and cold Liberals don’t sell us down the same path.
Hopefully we can help our govt change some of the importing rules now.
The warranty issue is at the provincial level, and needs to be changed to protect consumers.
For example, when I buy a camera from Dell online, why do they refuse to ship it to me if I don’t check the box off that states…. “this camera will not be transported and used in the U.S.”
Bottom line on the pricing is that although the internet price is posted and freely available to all consumers in both countries…and at this time a 82 cent dollar does not make it….The U.S. dealers appear to be negotiating and selling off their stock at very very low prices. While some of the Canadian dealers we have seen appear to be inflexible.
Thanks for your input, have a safe and happy holiday!