Apr 30 2010
Check out the Toronto Star, Mark Toljagic is right on and calls it as he sees it.
Canadians shopping for cars in the U.S. - again!
and take a look at some of the responses he has from your trusty Canadian car folks!
Volvo response is a bit funny, they offer a cash discount of UP TO $9000, but the difference in price is around $19,000.00! ( see our price comparison dated April 20.)
Apr 27 2010
The Soaring Loonie and cross border shoppers - if you missed this TV report, you can find it at
http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/News/TV_Shows/The_National/ID=1478312745
or check out YouTube
Thank you Lynne Robson from CBC - Montreal for this fine report and showing Canadians that there are some deals to be made if you look south.
Some of other thoughts on the report, and they are consistent with the many emails we received… are as follows:
The coverage on CarsWithoutBorders, although very limited, was good and we received hundreds of calls and emails…
The main message got out….. the Canadian Automobile Consumer needs to be careful when purchasing a car. Not all car companies are pricing their products fairly and they will walk all over them.!
The coverage on “RickY” the broker left us confused. He appears to scare people into going to him to buy a car. “Taking several months to prepare a RAV4 or a car for import????? , complicated rules…. they are not that complicated….but they are not simple either. Don’t do it yourself.. call me!
I am not happy with Peter Mansbridge stating that most purchases are for used cars, but then he fails to state why…. Because the U.S. dealers refuse to sell new cars to Canadians for fear of their franchise…..possible Collusion and discrimination!!!!!
I think the CBC lost a good chance to identify the issues, who is behind them and why Canadians are being treated like second class citizens… but then again I guess we should be happy that they are at least bringing up the subject…. The other media doesn’t say a word, and is too scared to lose their advertising revenue rather than informing hard working Canadians. (we hear that the words CWB are banned at the Montreal Gazette… )
We would like to hear more from our members and supporters … what is your spin on the coverage?
Thanks..
Apr 26 2010
In continuing with our data analysis - we determined that in 2009 - of the 124,421 vehicles imported
Somebody is savings money on these imports - if each one saved only $2,000 this means $248,842,000 saved - ($249 million.)
Vehicle Imports in 2008 were 239,929. If $2,000 was saved on each one - that makes $480 million saved by Canadians.
Apr 20 2010
We really had a laugh yesterday when we looked through all the misleading Auto ads in the Gazette. Now we know why the Gazette doesn’t want to print the truth about pricing, more than 75% of their revenues must come from Canadian Car ads. … but back on topic…
Check out this ad from Volvo, Pay cash and they give you up to a $9,000 dollar discount. Sounds good until you find out that the price difference for the entry level with no options XC90 AWD Executive model is $79,006.85 Tax in. The US model is 50 versus $60362.16 Tax In ( Including the 6.1% European tax) … a difference of $10,000 after a possible $9,000 cash rebate…if we had more time we would call and probably find out that the rebate was only $8,000 ( after tax ?) because we did not buy the fully loaded model?!
Need we say more…
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Apr 18 2010
Well talk about taking advantage ( some people call that screwing!) the same people that subsidize and feed you!
Canadian Pricing Summary Details
So we just couldn’t resist taking a look at some of the recent vehicle prices. We wanted to see if some Canadian Car Companies were adjusting to the new “Par” dollar or just quite simply doing nothing…. for we all know most Canadians don’t care if they pay thousands of dollars more for the same vehicle driven down south by their American cousins.
But Serge and I do. Keep following this site daily as we both go about attempting to purchase a new automobile at a fair price. Over the course of the next few weeks we will explore and visit showrooms in Canada and the U.S., we will even attempt to obtain quotes from the APA’s recommended Brokers.
We will highlight the process, the roadblocks put up by the industry and our Government to keep Canadians paying substantially higher prices. Better to give all our hard earned money to Multi- national companies, than to keep it in our pockets. Why would we want to improve our standard of living? Just ask all the ex Nortel Pensioners (12,000Plus) how they feel about our Government, The Bond traders, Major Banks and the current Bankruptcy Act that will cost them and Canadian Taxpayers millions of dollars!
Well, we are afraid to tell you folks that that is the way our Government and the Multinational Companies work. Together they manage to make hard working Canadians pay more than their American Cousins.
Stay tuned!
Apr 18 2010
In case you were wondering what kind of cars are being the most imported into Canada. Well here is a list of 6 companies and how the 2010 1st Quarter imports compare to the 1st Quarter 2009. It’s going up boys and girls - going up even with all those hurdles.
Apr 17 2010
STATS 2009 - by Province and by month
Some stats are worth a thousand words. Where are the imports going to. More to come - if you have some questions please comment and we will try to answer.
