Yaris vs Corolla, Yaris vs Matrix

[Kal-El]

The current conversion rate: $1.00USD = $1.025CAN

These prices you are listing are absolutely outrageous (Avalon especially).

So that would translate into the Avalon costing $45,794.86 in the US.

The actual MSRP for the Avalon XLS in the States is $32,245.

So for what you guy's pay for an Avalon, we could buy the same Avalon + a Yaris.

No offense, but I ain't moving to Canada anytime soon.

(sorry, I know we're a bit off topic)

[auxmike]

Yeah, that's insane!
Wonder if they add VAT in Canada?

[pierdeux]

Originally Posted by Kal-El

The current conversion rate: $1.00USD = $1.025CAN

These prices you are listing are absolutely outrageous (Avalon especially).

It's a known fact that that the auto market in Canada is more expensive than in the US, but your analysis over-emphasizes that: you have to remember that, over the past three years, the Canadian dollar gained 50% in value w.r.t. the US dollar (or, if you look at it the other way, that the US dollar lost 33% of its value w.r.t. the Canadian dollar). Car prices did not fully compensate that change, but neither did Canadians' salaries -- hence the situation is most disadvantageous to an American who would (for some strange reason) want to buy a car in Canada...

(The prices quoted, for Quebec in this case, include a combined 13% tax.)

That said, I suspect Canadians (and Quebeckers in particular) would recoup a fraction of the difference on cheaper insurance costs... (But then, who buys a car because they'll get a good deal on insurance???)