Focus start a £11,700 0% interest in France UK price £13,999
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I think it's often quite a bit more expensive to make a RHD car than is it to make a LHD car due to the volumes involved.
Low volumes for RHD vehicles = higher piece price per part for the RHD specific bits and therefore either a much lower profit margin on that particular car for the OEM.
Low volumes for RHD vehicles = higher piece price per part for the RHD specific bits and therefore either a much lower profit margin on that particular car for the OEM.
Pr1964 said:
We don't have a list price at £11,700.
We have £15,500 as the starting list price.
Rip off Britain.....
Except we are not in the rip off Britain and the vast majority of items to buy in life are a damn sight cheaper in Britain than they are in the rest of Europe.We have £15,500 as the starting list price.
Rip off Britain.....
Now what would that price be if the exchange rate was taken into account at differing levels? Any of which the rate *could* be at and would affect the UK price but be irrelevent to the French price. As that rate differed and the car became cheaper to you in the UK and more dear in France would you suddenly start deciding "rip off France" ?
carscoop did a recent check of this for he 370z and its relatively cheap here
http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2012/01/so-how-much-d...
he euro has dropped against the pound in the last 8 weeks which explains 1k of the difference
http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2012/01/so-how-much-d...
he euro has dropped against the pound in the last 8 weeks which explains 1k of the difference
DJRC said:
Except we are not in the rip off Britain and the vast majority of items to buy in life are a damn sight cheaper in Britain than they are in the rest of Europe.
Absolutely agree with this. I live in Germany, but get the vast majority of my big purchases sent over from the UK, because:1) it's invariably cheaper, even putting on the postage
2) often it will arrive quicker
3) the aftersales service will be far better
And it's the same with cars - for example, check out kia.de and kia.co.uk - a 1.6 Ceed in UK plus a few extras costs 15k quid. Here, it costs 23k euros. Difference at today's exchange rate: 5k euros or 25% more expensive.
Truly - it certainly isn't rip-off Britain. And don't get me started on the banks here...
Pr1964 said:
Rip off Britain.....
Why on earth do people say this? Is it because 5 years ago the Daily Mail was upset that you could buy Levis in the USA for half the UK price? I spend a lot of time traveling in Europe and the prices over there often make my eyes water! Try Scandinavia or Switzerland!Gassing Station | General Gassing | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff