[duck]

hi. i live in vancouver canada. i was just touring some tassmanians around our city in my EOS. they asked what i paid. and then this hobartan said that the same car in australia would cost twice or more.

as i didn't believe him, i told him that i would ask some of you in australia what the base price is for the car downunder.

thanks for replying. incidentally here in canada the base price is $37,000 which would be about $4,000 aussie bucks.

 

[DaveyW]

Hey there duck...
the RRP price here in Aus for the base model is $47,990.00AU (Eos 2.0 TDI 6 Speed Manual)... or $42,374.97 CAD

The RRP for the Eos 2.0T FSI 6 Speed DSG $52,290.00AU or $46,178.45 CAD

These prices exclude dealer delivery & any little extras you may want - but I reckon if you allowed for another $5,000AU or $4,415.58 CAD, you'd be looking at ballpark $50,594CAD for the Eos 2.0T FSI 6 Speed DSG.
And ballpark $46,790CAD for the os 2.0 TDI 6 Speed Manual.

Not a heck of a lot in it really... you may as well move to sunny Australia
Our exchange rate is running at 1 AUD = 0.883116 CAD...not too bad!

All the best David

 

[dcoz]

The other part of this equation is what comes in the 'base' model. For example, in Australia we get dual zone auto climate control, the RCD 300 stereo with in-dash 6 CD changer, rain sensor, full multifunction display, park distance control system as standard. In Canada, heated leatherette seats are standard compared to our unheated fabric seats. I'm guessing for an equivalent spec, the prices are pretty close.

 

[bneeos]

The $ add up when all the fruit is added. I estimate that the RRP for the Eos I have ordered (with accessories) is AUD65k on road in Queensland.

 

[Wrino]

I wonder if they have to now include dealer delivery etc.

I hate it when you see the RRP price of the car, yet to drive it away its about a few k more for dealer delivery and another 5k for stamp duty.

These things should be included in the price of the car as you cant purchase it without it.. unless of course you decide to use it as a race car or something

 

[silvershadow]

I wonder if they have to now include dealer delivery etc.

I hate it when you see the RRP price of the car, yet to drive it away its about a few k more for dealer delivery and another 5k for stamp duty.

These things should be included in the price of the car as you cant purchase it without it.. unless of course you decide to use it as a race car or something

Our Federal Consumer "Protection" authority recently decreed all car pricing must be in the form of an "on-road" cost with all fees and charges included. The car manufacturers no longer publish prices and you have to get one from a dealer - great for the dealer but lousy for a buyer who wants to get the manufacturer's current recommended price for the car and options then shop around to negotiate the best deal. You just get a lump sum price, no indication of how the price was calculated and no way of seeing which option prices are inflated or which options have been factory-installed or dealer fitted.

The theory is great but the implementation is impossible as the "shiny bum" bureaucrats [i.e. they sit on their behinds all day and the only thing to show for it are wear marks on their clothing corresponding to that region of their anatomy] conveniently forgot we have 6 States and 2 Territories with different fees and charges for purchasing and registering a vehicle let alone the tyranny of distance where the selling dealer has to include the cost of freighting the car from the manufacturer's storage location to the dealership in their selling price. The only solution seems to be for the car manufacturers to adopt F.I.S. [Free Into Store/Dealership] rather than F.O.T [Free on Transport] pricing for dealers anywhere in Australia and for the States and Territories to adopt common fees and charges - a snowflake in hell has a better chance of survival than the chance of this happening.

 

[kipperjet]

Unfortunately the intention of the legislation was laudable, but the execution flawed. The outlawing of the dealer delivery charge scam, which annoys the hell out of most consumers, [and in my case hugely dwarfed all the other add-ons for registration, stamp duty and 3rd party insurance put together], is a terrific idea, but the law needs to be phrased more carefully to accommodate the discrepancies vis-a-vis the different States car tax arrangements. The dealers' workshop charge to the sales department for pre-sale preparation is, I have learnt from the forums, about AU$500, add in a sum for transportation from the port of entry/factory to the dealer, and you are left with a large variable amount of sheer profit which the manufacturer/importer/dealer is happy to keep under as many wraps as it can get away with. It makes a mockery of trade-in prices, or indeed any quoted depreciation figures.

Getting rid of this little rort only would make most people happy, and, who knows, might even slightly raise the low esteem of the car dealer in the public's perception.

 

[geoffa1]

I hate to say it, but the new legislation dosn't get rid of dealer delivery, it just hides it in the total price.

If you are a business buying a vehicle and trying to compare two drive away offers which are exactly the same dollar wise, the real result can be totally different, as you only depreciate the base value of the vehicle - reg insurance and dealer delivery being expenses - and even more complicated when trying to work out if the Governments 50% investment allowance is worth having or not.

Car companies cannot put a drive away price on their websites as every state has different on road costs, unless they have a complicated drill down set up that bases the drive away price on your postcode, with all of the other compications involved - even state by state isn't good enough as Victotia charges a different TAC insurance charge depending on where your car is garaged.

Sorry - I got lost - what was the question?

 

[kipperjet]

Dead right geoffa1, the UK's on-the-road pricing doesn't work here as the States taxes are all different. What the government has to do to appease the many irritated consumers who drove this legislation [in both countries], and who would probably accept the small taxes/insurances added on as necessary evils on top of the list price, but who loathe the delivery scam, is to phrase the law so that the published price includes these dealer charges, so they disappear.

When I purchased my imported boat I paid a published amount, [many times an EOS's price admittedly], but I did not pay extra for the dealer to fettle it for me before it was serviceable, merely the applicable State taxes. These are issued by the government, so are readily accessible, unlike the far more furtive dealer charges. I don't know of any other consumer items that include this type of rigmarole. I would not be happy to be charged extra for a jeweler to fit the battery into a new watch I bought before I could use it, for example.

What deals are available to businesses, with all their tax offsets etc, is a different tale, and of little interest to the average consumer. They employ people to work it out.

Still, it will be all resolved when we all come to our senses here and actually become a country, not a Commonwealth of States and Territories, at savings to the nation calculated as running into the billions, won't it? How many States is my driving licence actually valid for?