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 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…
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.
Sep 10 2009
Today the Canwest follow-up story to the 3 part series concerning the Bathhurst tragedy focuses on Transport Canada’s lack of leadership and its inability to adopt CSA standards to protect human lives on our roads.
The Canadian Standards Association (CSA) has been after Transport Canada to adopt school-bus transportion standards that they had spent years working on.
Spokesman Ron Campbell stated “The CSA wouldn’t have gone into this if we felt those vans were providing the safety that was needed” , he went onto state “I don’t understand why, after the Bathhurst tragedy, this hasn’t been changed”.
It appears that Transport Canada - sticks its head in the sand as Canadian Citizens die needlessly on our roads. How much time and $$$ have Ford lobbyists spent in the offices of Transport Canada.
John Baird mintc@tc.gc.ca , Lawrence Cannon….. same fishy smell, different name.
Since Ford is appearing to be bouncing back, promoting a new stable of safety focused cars maybe they should either spend some time and funds to modify the Vans to the CSA standard or just stop production.
For full story: 2009-09-10gazette.pdf
