Quote:
Originally Posted by xia
57k? 57K?! 57K?!?!?
|
Yeah, welcome to Japan, where the entire consumer base is a captive market, ready and willing to fork over their cash for massively overpriced goods because.....well, it's Japan, and things are expensive, right? Almost no one speaks a foreign language so they can't even check English-language websites for prices/products elsewhere in the world and realize they're getting screwed.
Don't ask questions and give Toyota your money.
For example, a Lexus IS 350 F-Sport costs nearly $7k more in Japan (where it's built) than it does in the US (after it's shipped halfway around the planet). I brought this up to my GF and her only rebuttal was "Well....Lexus is a status symbol. If it was cheap.....nobody would want to buy it." -_-