Thread: Why would buying the same car in the USA or in Canada be so different?
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Old 04-02-2006, 10:11 AM  
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Originally Posted by bdjuf
so I went on BMW.com and BMW.ca to build myself a brand new M3 and see how much it costs

on the US website, it will cost me 67000$US which is equal to 78000$CAD
on the Canadian website, it will cost me 96000$US

does anybody have any idea why? Are these companies still using 1.5 as the exchange rate in order to rack in much more money?
Isn't it the same with other products? Try Dell.com and Dell.ca for example.
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