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Replying to: chuckhoy (Feb 22, 2008 10:06 am)
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Replying to: hoser0eh (Feb 21, 2008 8:15 pm) Actually, that was still a crap deal for Canadians: taking exchange rates only confuses the point. Suppose that we both went to the dealer with a $50k dollar bill (say yours was $50k canadian, mine was $50k american) and bought the same car: at the end of the day you'd have $10k left over, while I would have $18k. I am still relatively $8k richer than you are. With that extra $8k in my hands I can go buy myself 8000 packs of gum, while no gum for you! See the point I'm trying to make?
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Replying to: freealfas (Feb 22, 2008 5:11 am) 
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Replying to: jimmy2x (Feb 21, 2008 6:13 am) Unless a person's budget rules it out, it should at least get a looonnnng test drive. And not just around the corner. Get it on the highway to legal and above-legal speeds. Get it on a curvy road and spend enough time with the SH-AWD to understand how to make it work. Check out it's maneuverability in tight parking lots. Ok, maybe not that...it is rather wide. After doing all that, it was one of the easier buying decisions I ever made. Disclaimer - These, of course, are my opinions. Your opinions may (and probably will) vary if you are not a "car" guy like me. "Truck" guys will most likely hate the MDX.
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Replying to: cason1 (Feb 22, 2008 5:53 am) Impressive. And not just impressive "for a crossover", impressive with no disclaimers at all. What did you pay for yours? With what options?
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Replying to: cjsb (Feb 22, 2008 8:44 am) |
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Replying to: nxs138 (Feb 22, 2008 10:23 am) Actually, that was still a crap deal for Canadians: taking exchange rates only confuses the point. Suppose that we both went to the dealer with a $50k dollar bill (say yours was $50k canadian, mine was $50k american) and bought the same car: at the end of the day you'd have $10k left over, while I would have $18k. I am still relatively $8k richer than you are. With that extra $8k in my hands I can go buy myself 8000 packs of gum, while no gum for you! See the point I'm trying to make? Sorry, but I don't see your point. You cannot ignore the exchange rate if you want to compare properly.You are implying that an American dollar was equal to a Canadian dollar 5 years ago and it simply wasn't. If you had 50K US$ that was equal to over 80K C$ (when the exchange rate was 62 cents), so you are not comparing equal amounts. So in your example, the American would have 18K US left over (50-32) and the Canadian would have 40K Canadian left over (80-40) after buying their vehicles. Try it this way: If instead of the American buying their vehicle in the US for $32000 US$, they came to Canada with $32000 US$, it would convert to over $51000 Canadian (using a 62 cent exchange rate). They could then buy the $40000 Canadian vehicle and have $11000 C$ left over, because the Canadian vehicle is less expensive than the American one after adjusting for currency. Similarly, if a Canadian took $40000 C$ to the US and converted it to US dollars, they would only have $24800. Not enough to buy the US car at $32000, because the US model is far more expensive than the Canadian. Either way you look at it, the Canadian vehicle was a bargain compared to the US one 5 years ago. Of course today, the reverse is true, and Americans are getting the bargain vehicles, relatively speaking.
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Replying to: hoser0eh (Feb 22, 2008 12:26 pm) |
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Replying to: ateixeira (Feb 22, 2008 6:02 am) 
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Replying to: hoser0eh (Feb 22, 2008 12:26 pm) Sure you can: the Canadian is paying more of his dollars to buy a car in Canada. The American is paying less of his dollars. The exchange rate could be 10:1, it still wouldn't change that fact. The better way to compare would be to look at it this way: what is the percentage cost of the car as compared to the average salary in Canada, and compared to the average salary in the US. Since salaries kinda track each other (I thought it was about $27k for individuals in both countries), you should find that no matter what the exchange rate is, the cost of the Canadian car will always be a bigger percentage chunk of the average Canadian's salary. This is all getting too complicated...I'm sure we'll be told to take it elsewhere! |
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