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Australian prices! 18-May-2011 At 4:00:12 PM strerror
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On 18/05/2011 cruze wrote:
>My wife just bought a 2006 Suby Outback in NZ (yep another WANT not NEED)
>for about 80% of the cost of the same car in Oz. And that is before the
>4/3 exchange rate! It was explained to me that AU is protectionist of our
>local car manufacturing scene which is why we pay a lot more relatively
>for imports. I don't think NZ has any car manufacturing so to offset relatively
>meagre average income they make sure imported cars are priced low.

Off topic but on the car topic...

Australia also has another tax (one I left off in my reply to Neil) for basically protectionist reasons (aka Holden) of our own local car manufacturing. Not only does .nz not have that, but they also benefit from Japans laws that prohibit anyone driving a car older then (I think it's 5 might be 3) 3 years. All of these pretty much perfectly good 5 year old cars are then shipped to places like New Zealand and sold for nothing.Welcome to a inundated market of cheap nice cars.

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