muckz

You have to keep in mind that many prices for Canadian cars would reflect more or less equivalent to US prices when CDN dollar was lower (0.67 US cents instead of 0.90 cents).

When the US dollar started falling and CDN dollar started raising, nobody bothered adjusting any prices. MSRP stayed the same in Canada, and even went up each year (rate of inflation).

This has nothing to do with cars (US cars) being hit with taxes when transported to Canada.

However, if you want to buy a car in the US and bring it here, then there will be certain taxes and levies applied, so it will not be worth it.

lbrowne

I always wondered that because whenever I see US car commercials the advertised finance or lease payment was ridiculously low - beyond what it would be just for conversion.

R377

Actually, that works out about even. You can get the US tax back when you cross the border, and then you end up paying the same PST + GST you would up here anyhow. There's some other minor charges for importing, but well under $500 IIRC.

One of the problems is US dealerships are not supposed to sell new cars to Canadians. Canadian dealers may not honour the warranty either.

2000SilverLS1

Pontiac.com updated the site, the base is now 20K.