Why is Honda selling these things at 1.33-1.36 time the US price? This is getting ridiculous now with the loony at 0.91US.
And why is transport "only" $595.US and $1505.Can overhere?
And howcome the AWD option is only $1200.US and $2000.Can overhere. An exchange rate of 1.66.
Too bad auto journalists don't tackle the issue in their roadtests.
Clearly, Honda doesn't want to sell CRV's to canadians and I hope they stay on their lots judging by the number I see around here.
This new CRV is 3-5K too dear.
exchange rate is an interesting topic.... not too many years ago when the Canadian $$ is so weak... buying car from Canada was cheaper than buy in US... why wouldn't we complaint it at the time?
as economy is getting better in here, we benefit from it .......but at the same time, we need to pay Relatively higher price tag (actual cost in Canadian $ not being raised much except inflation, IMO) ...... man, we are living in a conflicting world 
.....
It was cheaper....for a US resident to buy up here. Not for Canadians to buy anything anywhere, as in a a $40k car 5 years ago, even with a weak dollar, is still more or less just like $40k today. Still expensive.
Except now that $40k can buy you a lot more across the border...its like a new opportunity emerged making current pricing seem very off. Doesn't mean it was any "cheaper" back in the day, and there is certainly no reason why Canadians 5 years ago should have been happily jumping around saying "Look, our CRV is only $25k USD!".
yup, you got your point... i was arguing that if you think it is more expensive to buy cars in Canada than in US today(YES, it is ture,
). You can as well as go cross border to do car shopping to save money. This was what US people did back then.
I think it is unfortunate that since our land is just next to another, we could easily compare money value to get an item from US. I have also been living in another place that everything could have parallel import (same item but not import/get from official dealer), it makes me always wonder, as a consumer, you want your economy to be good(dollar value high, seems like u need to pay higher than surrounding area) or bad (dollar value low, but you seems better to buy things cheaper locally)?
Talking about the look of the car, i was so exciting when i see it on the web (obviously the top model, with alloy wheel
). But once I see it in real world, it is so disappointed, i wish as Greg Wilson said, hope it looks better as time go.
