I'll never moan about car prices in th UK again...

[Comfortably Dumb]

I've been in Brazil for the last 2 weeks and because of high import duty and texes some things here are massively expensive but the price of cars is shocking!

A Fiat Mille (1980's series 1 Uno to you) and me is £9000 at the current exchange rate!

Want an Audi R8 that'll be £200,000, please...

[xPOW]

car tax in Denmark is currently 200% (yes two hundred percent!). That's just the tax on top of the car itself!

Makes our tax discs seem pretty good value eh

[ClintonB]

How about 600+ bags for a Ferrari 612 Scag in Singapore

Or 380k for a California?

[Ayahuasca]

Comfortably Dumb said:

I've been in Brazil for the last 2 weeks and because of high import duty and texes some things here are massively expensive but the price of cars is shocking!

A Fiat Mille (1980's series 1 Uno to you) and me is £9000 at the current exchange rate!

Want an Audi R8 that'll be £200,000, please...

Has its compensations, mind.... see the 'hand signals' thread

[tog]

Comfortably Dumb said:

I've been in Brazil for the last 2 weeks and because of high import duty and texes some things here are massively expensive but the price of cars is shocking!

A Fiat Mille (1980's series 1 Uno to you) and me is £9000 at the current exchange rate!

Want an Audi R8 that'll be £200,000, please...

Argentina is similar, and thanks to the horrific inflation my brother recently sold his 2001 Ford Focus for more than he bought it for five years and 30,000km ago.

[Pothole]

Try Malta, http://www.active-car-hire.com/used.htm

Ford KA 3drs
2003 model
€4,290


Red, 3 doors, 1300cc, Petrol
Features & Extras
Manual transmission
Aircondition
Stereo + Electric windows
Power Steering
Approx 89,000 kms

£3765.00 there, £1495 here with two lady owners rather than rental thrashing...and have you seen the roads over there?

[bencollins]

The UK has Europes cheapest second hand cars, its because right hookers cant leave (except to oz etc). The new car prices in the UK are now also amongst the lowest in real terms because nobody wants to put up the prices even tho the pound is @40% down, Enjoy it while it lasts, car prices in Sweden are frankly sick. Swedes have no imagination, only buying big thirsty estates here, so they are cheap 2nd hand, but anything remotely interesting costs loads. Result : import from germany or italy.

[jamoor]

bencollins said:

The UK has Europes cheapest second hand cars, its because right hookers cant leave (except to oz etc). The new car prices in the UK are now also amongst the lowest in real terms because nobody wants to put up the prices even tho the pound is @40% down, Enjoy it while it lasts, car prices in Sweden are frankly sick. Swedes have no imagination, only buying big thirsty estates here, so they are cheap 2nd hand, but anything remotely interesting costs loads. Result : import from germany or italy.

This, our RHD cars come to this island and die on this island, they aren't much in demand anywhere on the planet really as other RHD countries import their cars from japan, even we do that.

[jb9193]

Sounds like a really good money making opportunity to me!! :O

[12gauge]

xPOW said:

car tax in Denmark is currently 200% (yes two hundred percent!). That's just the tax on top of the car itself!

Makes our tax discs seem pretty good value eh

Linky?

Is that like Road tax? Not purchase tax - Id always assumed the EU tells us how much we have to tax/not tax stuff like that.

[12gauge]

Pothole said:

Try Malta, http://www.active-car-hire.com/used.htm

Ford KA 3drs
2003 model
€4,290


Red, 3 doors, 1300cc, Petrol
Features & Extras
Manual transmission
Aircondition
Stereo + Electric windows
Power Steering
Approx 89,000 kms

£3765.00 there, £1495 here with two lady owners rather than rental thrashing...and have you seen the roads over there?

How does one (even a rental car) manage to do that many Kms in Malta?!

[Steameh]

xPOW said:

car tax in Denmark is currently 200% (yes two hundred percent!). That's just the tax on top of the car itself!

Makes our tax discs seem pretty good value eh

Indeed I recall checking out used car prices on a Danish site a while back and the prices were bizarre. I recall seeing a Citroen C6 fully loaded HDi 2 or so old for going on £70k

Infact checking now I can see that;


Ford Mondeo 2,5 20V Turbo Titanium st.car 5d
2008 with 35,000km
DKK 349900

Which according to XE is £41k

Edited by Steameh on Saturday 9th October 01:15

[GeraldSmith]

Australia is pretty scary too, mind you australia is pretty scary for a lot of things. Telecoms is back in the 1990s not so much in capability but in the way you have to pay for it. When was the last time you had to pay based on how much you use broadband? And little things like having to find the right ATM for your bank. But back on topic, they have a luxury car tax of 33% on anything over $60k

[SkinnyBoy]

Agree Australia is eye wateringly expensive for decent cars. Second hand prices make me cry weekly knowing how much I could buy a nice car in the uk for compared to a crap car for the same price here. Still the suns shining I've got me shorts on and the petrol is still cheaper the blighty.

[GeraldSmith]

SkinnyBoy said:

Agree Australia is eye wateringly expensive for decent cars. Second hand prices make me cry weekly knowing how much I could buy a nice car in the uk for compared to a crap car for the same price here. Still the suns shining I've got me shorts on and the petrol is still cheaper the blighty.

It's been pretty bloody miserable in Sydney these past weeks, last weekend in particular was cold, wet and grey.

[Pothole]

12gauge said:

Pothole said:

Try Malta, http://www.active-car-hire.com/used.htm

Ford KA 3drs
2003 model
€4,290


Red, 3 doors, 1300cc, Petrol
Features & Extras
Manual transmission
Aircondition
Stereo + Electric windows
Power Steering
Approx 89,000 kms

£3765.00 there, £1495 here with two lady owners rather than rental thrashing...and have you seen the roads over there?

How does one (even a rental car) manage to do that many Kms in Malta?!

surprising isn't it? Yes, it's a small island but you HAVE to drive everywhere as the alternatives are rubbish.

[richyb]

I remember Hawaii being massively expensive because of difficulty of getting them to the islands. 20 year old 200k mile pickups were 200%-300% of what they were on the West Coast.

[ambuletz]

I was speaking to my uncle about cars from seychelles (when he came over afew months ago on holiday), prices are pretty similar to here, if a little more expensive. but what blew me away was that a brand new car only gets 6 months warranty.

[ShadownINja]

ClintonB said:

How about 600+ bags for a Ferrari 612 Scag in Singapore

Or 380k for a California?

Yeah, Sinapore is shocking

BUT

bearing in mind I am someone who just doesn't do public transport, I would happily take a train in Singapore.

[davepoth]

the last time I went to Malta, everyone was driving round in rust free Mk1 Escorts...