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Originally Posted by White Comet

It's because the Canadian arms of all the car companies bitch that since we only have about 10% the population of the US, that amounts to only approx 10% the total customer base, hence why they jack up the price of each unit. Understand that when our dollar was worth about 63-75 cents US (and it was this way for over a decade) they could get away with it, since Canadians couldn't exercise any buying power in the US with such a shitty dollar.

However, due to the recent near-parity between the US and CDN dollar over the past 2 years, the car companies have felt the heat as Canadian consumers took their strong dollar and bought their cars in the US, then went through the legal process to bring them to Canada, still saving a huge amount of money. The companies then went ahead and tried to screw the consumer by saying cars purchased in the US would have any existing warranty voided once registered in Canada. There is now a class-action lawsuit against these greedy swine.

At the same time that the companies went ahead with this sleazy method of screwing Canadians (again), they tried damage control by "dropping" their prices... but it still didn't reflect the parity between the CDN and US dollar. So fuck them. I hope they choke on this class-action suit.

FYI, it wasn't just the S2000. The STI used to cost 50k, as did the 350Z. Hell, even a WRX was 35k! Now, with the "new" prices, an STI costs about 41K, and a 370Z is about the same.

Wow, Canadians got screwed much more than I thought. That sucks.