Evo X Finally Out In Vancouver, Canada!
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From: Vancouver, BC
No guys, that law applies to Evo VIII and IX. The new X is the same world wide. They're not gonna make a different bumper just for Canada. That's way too expensive. But if they do change the law that means we could go buy older Evo's maybe.
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From: Over there!
Northshore has a GSR as well, I got a call from them. Then allotment is MORE than 1 car per dealer BTW, so I wouldn't worry too much about markup. The ones that markup simply won't get the sale. Newtype was selling at MSRP if you deposit, and there were a couple others in the same boat. Northshore mitsu was asking 3K over, and were not taking preorders/deposits.
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From: the land between lancer and evo
ok lets turn this around so people seem to understand from the business side why the currency is higher. lets pretend you own Mitsubishi.
A) you dont want to be adjusting your currency all the time up and down, historically for the past 20 or 30 years the US currency has been higher then the Canadian, so just because it goes above once for a few months, why would you rest all your prices? we saw the currency run 15 cents within like a 2 month period it was crazy, then it ran back down 10 cents. its inpossible to predict. the only way to do it is to base it on averages. The longer the currency stays even, the more the price will become even. but it will take time.
B) your primary market is the USA, most of your cars are shipped to the USA, it would not be wise to create a situation where you have Americans going north of a boarder to aquire cars. The dealers wouldnt stand for it, and you would be upsetting the balance of your primary market.
C) Shipping, and supporting this secondary market has additional overhead vs. an entrenched more harmonized American primary market. Factories are located in the US (for those cars not made in Japan) taxes are easier to deal with etc...
So when people complain about the price its simple, if you can get the car cheaper, take a drive and buy one. lol that is unless there is a stupid regulation that stops you from doing it, like a rear bumper lol, in that case you have to lobby your government.
THe problem is, Canadian Dealer Associations do not want the trade barriers to come down, they of course do not want you to go to the states to by your car because then it undermines their price. They lobby the government as well, and generally leads to a very slow pace of change. Its no different then the Canadian Cell phone companies. its a 3 way monopoly, if someone stands out they all work together to minimize the threat, and things go back to being the same.
Remember what happend when fido attempted to bring to the wonderful Canadian people Free unlimited talk time 24/7 for 50 dollars. Remember that you were allowed to even change the number to your house phone, wow, thats ground breaking lol Well, like a Eagle swooping down from 10,000 that company was taken out, Rogers completed the merger in record time, there were no hearings, by the regulatory body that over sees this sector. lol Fido was effectivly gone as an independant provider.
And that free talk time plan disapeared. Only now after 3 years of consoltation and lobbying for delays by the sector did we finally get the ability to keep our cellphone number? when we switch provider, the excuse by the big companies is, that it just cant be done, it will take alot of resources.
Anyways I am taking this way off topic but you get the picture. you need to lobby and or elect the proper members of government to get real change.
Thats the key to everything.
God i am tired, going to bed lol
A) you dont want to be adjusting your currency all the time up and down, historically for the past 20 or 30 years the US currency has been higher then the Canadian, so just because it goes above once for a few months, why would you rest all your prices? we saw the currency run 15 cents within like a 2 month period it was crazy, then it ran back down 10 cents. its inpossible to predict. the only way to do it is to base it on averages. The longer the currency stays even, the more the price will become even. but it will take time.
B) your primary market is the USA, most of your cars are shipped to the USA, it would not be wise to create a situation where you have Americans going north of a boarder to aquire cars. The dealers wouldnt stand for it, and you would be upsetting the balance of your primary market.
C) Shipping, and supporting this secondary market has additional overhead vs. an entrenched more harmonized American primary market. Factories are located in the US (for those cars not made in Japan) taxes are easier to deal with etc...
So when people complain about the price its simple, if you can get the car cheaper, take a drive and buy one. lol that is unless there is a stupid regulation that stops you from doing it, like a rear bumper lol, in that case you have to lobby your government.
THe problem is, Canadian Dealer Associations do not want the trade barriers to come down, they of course do not want you to go to the states to by your car because then it undermines their price. They lobby the government as well, and generally leads to a very slow pace of change. Its no different then the Canadian Cell phone companies. its a 3 way monopoly, if someone stands out they all work together to minimize the threat, and things go back to being the same.
Remember what happend when fido attempted to bring to the wonderful Canadian people Free unlimited talk time 24/7 for 50 dollars. Remember that you were allowed to even change the number to your house phone, wow, thats ground breaking lol Well, like a Eagle swooping down from 10,000 that company was taken out, Rogers completed the merger in record time, there were no hearings, by the regulatory body that over sees this sector. lol Fido was effectivly gone as an independant provider.
And that free talk time plan disapeared. Only now after 3 years of consoltation and lobbying for delays by the sector did we finally get the ability to keep our cellphone number? when we switch provider, the excuse by the big companies is, that it just cant be done, it will take alot of resources.
Anyways I am taking this way off topic but you get the picture. you need to lobby and or elect the proper members of government to get real change.
Thats the key to everything.
God i am tired, going to bed lol
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Yeah, I'll have mine before Spring. I think quite a few will get purchased in Canada before the law changes.
For the Evo X I'm pretty sure we will be able to import it in the next year, but we will have to change the bumper to the canadian spec bumper. Like we have to do on some mazda car.
id be more than happy paying Canadian $51,000.
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From: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
THis list alway change and you always have to call to make sure that you can import the car you want from the states. Many 2008 car can be imported because dealer make presure on the governement to make sure they don't get stuck with their car they sale for lot more$$$. At this time I think that only Subaru said that it will honor warranty from vehicule that come from the state. Other company won't honor the warranty.
For the Evo X I'm pretty sure we will be able to import it in the next year, but we will have to change the bumper to the canadian spec bumper. Like we have to do on some mazda car.
For the Evo X I'm pretty sure we will be able to import it in the next year, but we will have to change the bumper to the canadian spec bumper. Like we have to do on some mazda car.