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Originally Posted by StraightOuttaCanadaEh
No I was saying the Miata is not reasonably priced. I would never pay what they're asking for it. It's overpriced.
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Cost recovery versus sales volume. Their makers have to earn a profit on each unit sold or they will stop making them. Believe me, if they could lower the price they would.
Either of these Japanese sportscars is a bargain compared to any of the alternatives.
Canada will always pay through the nose for cars since we insist on each manufacturer complying with our own special set of car making regulations and testing process. You can find out how stupidly expensive that is when you try to import a car from the USA. Even cars made in Canada for export to the USA are priced up to 20% less when sold there than when sold here. Exact same car.
Canada needs its own car regulations and testing facilities? I think not. If our government actually cared about consumer pricing we would open our markets to cars complying with either the US or EU regulations and simply abandonment our own redundant system of regulation. Many other consumer products suffer from the same idiotic bureaucracy.