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Topic: Canadians can get cheap SUVs in the US
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Michelle
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posted 27 June 2006 04:16 AM
I'm not sure whether this is good news - that SUVs are expensive in Canada still - or bad news, that it's easy to get those nasty machines for so cheap in the US.Story here. This is one of those "live online" stories which will consist of a live chat on the Glob site, so it's a pretty barebones story. quote: The massive gap in prices that led Americans to flood into Canada to buy vehicles has vanished, so that now Canadians can save thousands of dollars if they purchase a new car in the United States.Canadians buying luxury sport utility vehicles will save as much as $14,000 if they buy them in the United States, auto industry analyst Dennis DesRosiers says in his annual comparison of vehicle prices between the two markets.
From: I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell. | Registered: May 2001
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Sineed
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Babbler # 11260
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posted 27 June 2006 06:32 AM
quote: These things don't belong in the cities.
I couldn't agree more, Boom Boom. As an asthmatic, my major beef is with people who think the city is too dirty to live in and commute from the suburbs to our downtown core, fouling the air we breathe. During the last mayoral election for Toronto, candidate (and eventual winner) David Miller suggested that tolls be put on roads into Toronto to discourage vehicular traffic into the city, encouraging the use of public transit and cleaning up the air. He was bullied out of this progressive idea by rival John Tory, who set up information pickets saying "No Tolls," etc, on the major roads into TO, forcing Miller to say he would only bring in road tolls as a last resort. Whenever I'm choking my way through another smoggy day in the city, I thank John Tory, who is now head of the Ontario PCs and always at the ready to bully our premier out of any progressive idea he might possibly have (hey, it could happen).But unless they live in a border town, people who buy SUVs south of the border will pay their Canadian taxes in the end at the gas pumps. [ 27 June 2006: Message edited by: Sineed ]
From: # 668 - neighbour of the beast | Registered: Dec 2005
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otter
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posted 27 June 2006 09:14 AM
quote: CBC Newsworld showed a clip of the smog over Toronto - wow, it was thick and brown. Nasty
Hmmmm, it was thick, brown and nasty 30 some years ago when i left the place. Surely the pollution must be close to the consistency of gravy by now. But fear not the answer is to be found in Japan where enterprising entrepeneurs have placed oxygen dispensing machines on every street corner so that those with a pocket full of coins can get a hit of life saving air as they race from machine to machine on the way to and from work. Others carry oxygen bottles in their cars to cope with the traffic jams, as well to be able to remain conscious long enough to make the commute.
From: agent provocateur inc. | Registered: Feb 2006
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arborman
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posted 29 June 2006 11:31 AM
I assume the reason for the cheaper price in the US is the 25% import tariff the US applies to all other light trucks (free trade except when it favours them etc)SUVs are poorly designed, unsafe, gas guzzling monstrosities that only exist because of a trade dispute over chickens 30 years ago, combined with the fact they are exempt from US fuel efficiency standards (also an unintended consequence of the original law, writ large). 100 years from now people will deny that their ancestors ever owned any such thing, and will edit them out of family photos. Until then, may all their engine blocks crack. My they become the most unattractive quality about any individual. May people mock them in the streets as pathetic losers.
From: I'm a solipsist - isn't everyone? | Registered: Aug 2003
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