Cite proof please. Or are you just pulling stuff out of your behind yet again?
Greg, go buy car at a GM dealer. A real, new car with 10 km in the clock. You will be charged the following fees:
-Lien registration fee
-Documentation fee
-Registration fee
-Gasoline fee. (yes, they charge you for it at most GM dealers!)
What they actual cost the dealer charges is up to each individual dealer but it ran $750 at the last GM store I worked at. The actual cost of said services is $75 for the lien. The documentation is just filling out the papers and the car isn't registered when it is at the dealer, but the dealer tells you it is. This is not true; the car is owned by GM Canada until the buyer registers it. These fee go directly to the dealer and whatever pack they might also try to upsell you on like the ID thing that is a complete scam. Service packs are 15% to the person who sold the, 25% to the business office and the rest to GM.
Most people will say "yes" to these packs because they have already been beaten down by the sales manager by the time the business manager gets them to complete the beating process.
There is not a lot of profit in small cars at GM so they add these fees as a "dealer pack." When I was shopping for a car last year, I walked out of a VW dealer when they tried to ding me for a $475 "Clean up fee," so it it not only GM.
On the other side of the coin, what you see on Toyota or Honda's website is exactly what you pay. This being said, you could probably get a GM car like and Aveo or a Cobalt for much less than an equivalent Honda or Toyota anyway so the packs may not seem so bad to the average customer.
