...£43,885.
Ouch! Includes VAT at 17.5% though
Ouch! Includes VAT at 17.5% though
The sDrive35is price in the UK is...
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The price in Canada for a full load s35i is $78,000 CDN. (Before GST of 5%)
The same car in the USA is $68000 USD. I don't know the tax rate in Arizona but thats the price on the car I drove there.
With todays rates on the Pound I'd say your getting a much better deal than us.....your price (less VAT) = $63,316 CDN
I didn't think a boat ride was that expensive.....I think the profit margins are a little inflated here and in the USA
The same car in the USA is $68000 USD. I don't know the tax rate in Arizona but thats the price on the car I drove there.
With todays rates on the Pound I'd say your getting a much better deal than us.....your price (less VAT) = $63,316 CDN
I didn't think a boat ride was that expensive.....I think the profit margins are a little inflated here and in the USA
Au contraire! The 'sticker' price of my fully loaded 35i was close to £53.000 before discount, say £45.000 pre-tax or $77,500 CDN. You contribute less than $4,000 extra to your government's coffers while I disbursed an extra £7,000 which would rise to nearly £8,000 in January when VAT goes up again. That's another $13,000 CDN or over $90,000 in your dollars total. Most people will pay $86,000+ CDN for the 35is with the minimum desirable extras over here.
No-one here will accept that you pay more for cars on your side of the 'pond.' In 2005 I bought a Range Rover Sport with an admittedly high spec which cost me, spookily, around £53,000 (base was about £35,000). When I described my purchase to relatives in New York City, there was nothing they could do to make an RRS cost the dollar equivalent of what I paid. So I paid more for a car built 70 miles up the road than they would have to pay for the same car shipped 5000 miles to a US dealer!
No-one here will accept that you pay more for cars on your side of the 'pond.' In 2005 I bought a Range Rover Sport with an admittedly high spec which cost me, spookily, around £53,000 (base was about £35,000). When I described my purchase to relatives in New York City, there was nothing they could do to make an RRS cost the dollar equivalent of what I paid. So I paid more for a car built 70 miles up the road than they would have to pay for the same car shipped 5000 miles to a US dealer!
Wondermike said:...£43,885.
Ouch! Includes VAT at 17.5% though
I was using this posted price, so relax a minute. It was too good to be true.
AS for giving money to my government, 5% is too much as I already give them a LOT of income tax.
(VAT, GST, PST is all crap. If they want to have a user tax then cancel the income tax and just have a user tax, not both.)
There is no doubt that the price of the car is subsidised in the UK, if it cost any more they just wouldn't sell any. For years we had the highest car prices in Europe, so it's about time - even though the weak pound is the reason.
I don't know how the manufacturers deal with currency fluctuations :scratchhead:
I don't know how the manufacturers deal with currency fluctuations :scratchhead:
Breaker said:
according to the latest I could find, the current average wage is Euro 2,915 per month which equates to $ 4,179.24 per month, minus mandatory withholding [31%] works out to $3,143.43 per month. This is for a Computer Programmer, who, in the US gets $5,378.00 before Taxes, which leaves him/her with $4,141.00 [23% withholding]. Info is not mine, but obtained from http://www.worldsalaries.org/ which has long chart by specialty, some are higher, some are lower but overall they seem to average out pretty close. Housing prices in Germany average out to €235,000 [$ 337,059.36] while the states are harder to figure with the average in Tallahassee, FL at $145,900 while in Philadelphia it is $227,500 and $324,700 in Alexandria VA. Super gas [91 Octane]was $ 1.98 a quart as of yesterday while food seems pretty close
Wondermike said:
"Subsidised"? Yeah in some senses other markets may contribute to the overall profits disproportionately, but i doubt they are making a loss on selling them in the UK.
They are charging as much money for the car in each market, as each market will bear.
And yes, this is a different price in the UK to, say, the US market or the German market at the moment.
Looks like we in the UK got lucky all the same.
Mind you, when thinking back to how a fully loaded M Roadster listed 47k pounds fully loaded new, this looks about right ... although the pound was strong then!
Hi Wondermike!!!!
It's yer old northern mucka mike here saying hello!!
As in the chap that's owned Z4s, E92335d, Z4Ms, SLK55 loadsa S2000s, TTS etc. from oop here in Whitby and who changes his cars way too often to the point of utter ridiculousness!
I've only got a RAV4 beater at the moment, but I'm really quite fancying a 35is as it goes..... Come late Spring 10 it's gonna either be one of those or - a more 'sensible' choice of a couple-of-year-old SLK55AMG (in filth-encrusted and never cleaned stealth black!).
How you keeping fella??
Mike
It's yer old northern mucka mike here saying hello!!
As in the chap that's owned Z4s, E92335d, Z4Ms, SLK55 loadsa S2000s, TTS etc. from oop here in Whitby and who changes his cars way too often to the point of utter ridiculousness!
I've only got a RAV4 beater at the moment, but I'm really quite fancying a 35is as it goes..... Come late Spring 10 it's gonna either be one of those or - a more 'sensible' choice of a couple-of-year-old SLK55AMG (in filth-encrusted and never cleaned stealth black!).
How you keeping fella??
Mike
Hey Mike how's it going? I think you missed a 135i in the middle of that lot somewhere 
35is could be tempting next year for me too, just the price though, hope they do a Z4M with the price and you get 35% off after 6 months. A '55 AMG would be nice but you've been there, done that, not that it's stopped you before! There are some really nicely specced 35s on the BMW website just now, hmmmm.
35is could be tempting next year for me too, just the price though, hope they do a Z4M with the price and you get 35% off after 6 months. A '55 AMG would be nice but you've been there, done that, not that it's stopped you before! There are some really nicely specced 35s on the BMW website just now, hmmmm.