holden leaving australia?

[ray38l]

Originally Posted by 2011G6E

Back to the imports: If the import tariff is "only" 5%, then why are a lot of imported cars worth up to twice here what they sell for overseas? Why do cars that, in Europe for example, are ordinary family cars or taxis, have to be sold here as "luxury prestige" models because of thier price? Using the 300C as an example, in the USA it starts at just under $28,000. Because of our rediculous restrictions on LHD cars, we have to get the specially built RHD version here, but surely that doesn't cover doubling the price for even the base model V6 here...

will you get over the fact that you cant buy a new left hand drive in Australia? Every thread about imported cars has you going on about how stupid it is that you cant drive them here. Get over it.