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.
Aug 19 2009
You have got to be kidding! This is Jon Stewart material! So today, GM has finally woken up and decided to increase production and recall 1,350 workers in Ontario and Ohio.
Yesterday Canwest reported that GM did not have one car in the top ten sellers of those that were making “clunker” trades. It would be interesting to find out if GM had any vehicles in the top 25. And what models they were.
By our count well over 1/3 of the allotted funds have been spent and GM hopes to grab some of the sales by having product available.
Let us hope that these magical managers at GM know what they are doing.
Wonder how much GM is planning to “gouge” hard working Canadian car consumers! They have billions of our tax dollars, now they will charge us over 12% more than Americans —unfair prices for vehicles built in Canada!
Coming this winter… “Auto Bailout number 2″ playing at a theatre near you.
You can also check out these sites and have fun readying what the the world thinks of this mess!
Aug 14 2009
Many thanks to one of our members that took a few minutes out of their busy day to contribute a U.S. / Canadian Price comparison on the 2010 Buick LaCrosse/Allure CXS.
At today’s exchange rate of 0.9235 the saving is 12.76% or $6090.42. At par hard working, smart shopping Canadians can avoid being “gouged” by 19.38% or $9,251.03 by shopping in the U.S. It appears to us that the “NEW” GM(Government Motors), is just following along it’s old ways.
In Canada the car is called Allure. In the US they call it LaCrosse. We imagine they did this to confuse cross-border shoppers.
Despite recent claims by Dougie Porter and his gang at the Bank of Montreal it appears that “Fair” pricing for Canadian Automobile Consumers is but a pipedream. Is our productivity and standard of living so much less than the Americans that car companies continue to gouge us.
The Canadian Car Consumer has to wake up!
We also heard that GM is targeting this vehicle for the Chinese Market.
Aug 11 2009
With the dollar certain to rise closer to parity, it appears that purchasing the new 2010 Camaro 2SS in California, using Ebay, (see yesterday’s post) can save Canadians some big bucks.
It appears, that the Canadian wing of GM, now partially owned by the Canadian Govt, has decided to set Canadian prices using the equivalent of a 0.80 Loonie. Using a 0.9079 loonie, as was the price this afternoon, CarsWithoutBorders achieves 12.23% difference or a $6,314.87 difference.
At Par Canadians will save over 20% or $10,452.93.
Examining the features quickly we also had the feeling that the Canadian model lacked several features not included in the American model. It would take a team like those folks working with Dougie Porter at BMO a couple of hours to really get a good feel of the differences, but we suspect the difference would be even greater.
Here’s what we came up ewith in 30minutes of work.
As a side note the Canadian GM Website appears easier to use than the U.S. one. I guess when you are gouging Canadians on price you can spend a bit more on IT. Why not have just one big North American site … be the first GM … Why continue to waste your dollars on two sets of IT teams. Lay off one and save some money for the things you do right!
It appears that a retired GM employee and his wife could run this Company and make it profitable again!
Note: feel free to use the Price Comparison spreadsheet on the right (under the resources section) and experiment yourself with other models. Forward your analysis to us and we will post them.
Aug 10 2009
GM has initiated a move to sell their vehicles on EBAY. Well welcome to the 21st Century. It is about time. Must be less overhead than going the delearship route. I wonder if they will pass on the savings to consumers?
I wonder if they will sell to Canadians?
