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On 997 S it lists a self-adjusting clutch, does that mean the Non S requires adjusting?
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No need to question the math B) your 11% diiference does that for us! I built a Boxster on the Porsche US website and then the same car on the Porsche Canadian website, in my example, the US car $62500 US and the CDN car $87750 Cdn... Appears to be much more then 11% ! Sorry, I don't buy in to the cost to "maintain a separate network and facilities to support their activities " as any reason for the immense difference. And what "administrative cost of doing business in Canada"? Hey, I'm not trying to pick any fights, I just think that we are getting taken, you don't work for a dealer do you? <_< Well there is no way around the fact that Canada is a seperate profit centre that has to stand on its own financially. With a much smaller market, approx 10% of the US market, costs are spread over a much smaller number of units. THe US has the economy of scale working in its favour. Plus the administrative costs of doing business in Canada is greater than the US, someone has to support the socialist dreamland you have there. If you want to believe there is some gigantic plot out there to take financial advantage of Canadians, then far be it from me to try to bring some rational points to consider when looking at price differences. There is no reason to think prices should be the same if operating conditions , government requirements, taxes on business etc are not the same.
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Also in your maths gentlemen, you must consider that Porsche manufactures their cars priced in EUROS and the exchange rate from euros to Loonies is 1.4312 cdn for each euro, wheras in US rate is 1.2690 USD per Euro, which is an 11% diff...this is of course before the administrative costs of doing business in Canada is factored into the cost of each vehicle.
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THe import duties are the same for the theboth countries and I would have to pay the 6% GSTax and teh 10% provincial sales tax on both cars regardless of where they come from. WITH nafta there is NO import duty on new cars!! Someone is making a lot of money if they can sell the cars for at least 20% less in the US. There is no duty on autos that are traded between NAFTA nations, but each country is free to assign tariffs to imports from NON-NAFTA countries, such as Germany. In Canada that is 6.1%, in the US it is 2.5%. Plus the extra expense of a company having to maintain a separate network and facilities to support their activities within a country the size of Canada, geographically immense, but with a small population base, further increases the costs that must be recovered.
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I think the difference is the import duties Porsche must pay to bring a vehicle into Canada. For sure they must pay HST 7% and depending on the province it could be another 8%. In the US I believe they pay 2.5%.
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No matter how thin you fry the pancake, there are always two sides.
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Wheel repair
stubenhocker replied to hjluvjj's topic in 997-1 Series (Carrera, Carrera 4, Carrera 2S, Carrera 4S)
:beer: I've used these guys before, I was very pleased with their service! http://www.fixrim.com/loc.htm -
:D on 27 April there will be a feature on the new GT3 on AUTO MOTOR und SPORT Tv which is carried on DW-TV, which is available in North America on Dish Network and Bell ExpressVu, as well as many cable systems. See link for further info. http://www.dw-world.de/dw/0,2142,3063,00.html
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:king: of the total Boxster production in 2005 of 20321 vehicles, 15892 or 78% of them were assembled in Finland...the prior year all but 380 out of 18411 were assembled in Finland. statistics per Porsche Annual reports