sakimano

red book vs trade price....I guess you got a price below red book? I paid based on the actual purchase price...which was below red book. I guess I got lucky. I have a thread on here somewhere that was stickied back when this was popular (when the dollar went to par, but pricing in Canada hadn't been changed yet). It outlined all the fees/prices etc to the penny

here's a good guide for price to pay for a car in the US converted to price in your driveway

i.e. 30,000 car
$1000 transportation to get it back here
currency = par
6.1% duty
13% HST on car + duty (I think it's on the duty too...)
$350 in fees (RIV/inspection/emissions/plate transfer/temp)

Total = $37317

Thus 30,000 ---> your driveway = factor of 1.244 (call it 1.25) .

So if you want to import an Audi, after all taxes/fees etc. it's going to cost you about a 25% premium on whatever your 'purchase price' is


This is for an import remember (since we're talking Audis)...but anything assembled over here is free of that 6.1% fee. Only other thing might be the $1000 gas guzzler tax. B6/7 S4 has to pay this for MT6 transmission, but the auto just sneaks by. Q7 gets his...RS4 doesn't. Etc. It's outlined on CRA's webpage.

sakimano

you can't buy new (unless the US dealer wants to lose his license)

you can buy a nearly new car...i.e. one with only a few miles on it but it has to have been titled down there. Most, if not all, dealers won't bend this rule (selling a canadian a new car), but there are often 'new, old stock' cars that get their title stamped as being the dealer's car because the model year is gone. This happened with lots of RS4s and B7 S4s back in the economic meltdown when dealers were forced to title cars that were brand new but not selling. Took them till well into 2009 to get rid of them all. People were buying NEW RS4s for $59,000 back then....while they sold for $74,000 only months earlier...and for $95,000 up here.

Keswin

I understand that the US dealers will not sell new vehicles to Canadians BUT what about Canadian Permanent Residents (technically they are not Canadians) ? Are they able to purchase a new vehicle now?

Cheers,

Ben

petegd

I guess I've been looking at buying a new car from the US. What I find utterly frustrating is the glaring price difference here. I went to the dealer here in Calgary yesterday and he quoted me a base price of $68,600 on the new A7, adding that he is not willing to budge at all because 'we've pre-sold 7 already'. (base for A7 premium plus is $74,300)

The one that I'd be looking at in Canada would be around $79,000. On the US website, you can build the same car for $66,000 US or around $63,000 Canadian, or a $16,000 difference. With the surging Canadian dollar is looks like this is going to become even more of a difference.

I was hoping that Audi would perhaps set their pricing a little differently with the new models, but that is not to be had.

I just think this is wrong. Plain wrong. Frustrating, but I guess we're being held captive. In particular with these single dealerships in Canadian cities who realize that they can set prices.