Are 2007/2008 GT3s overpriced?
08-09-2012, 12:24 PM
#46
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08-10-2012, 12:15 PM
#47
08-11-2012, 11:55 AM
#48
Nordschleife Master
2) Without it, I will have to learn to drive without it. Learning to drive better is kind of my goal over going faster.
(I won't be able to take coming down off the back straight at Homestead with as much confidence) Maybe this would be a good thing as it will actually force me to learn the hard way.
(I won't be able to take coming down off the back straight at Homestead with as much confidence) Maybe this would be a good thing as it will actually force me to learn the hard way.
Learn to "drive better" and you will become faster.
It's not "learning the hard way", it's learning the right way.
Dry or wet makes no difference in the approach.
Good luck.
08-12-2012, 01:07 AM
#49
You can blame the Australian government and location on why cars cost you so much more in Australia. We don't have the luxury tax, import tax and goods & services taxes they do. Australian has much stricter emissions standard which also go into the price of the car. Also, the US market buys 30x the number of cars that Australians do (think bulk buying discount for a loose analogy). And lastly, it's very costly to ship cars to Australia versus the US.
Totally unrelated to the cars price, but Australians earn much higher on average than the US worker.
At the end of the day, just b/c the dollars are just about 1:1 doesn't mean car prices should be 1:1.
Totally unrelated to the cars price, but Australians earn much higher on average than the US worker.
At the end of the day, just b/c the dollars are just about 1:1 doesn't mean car prices should be 1:1.
Numbers sold does have a barring but again not the 3x+ costs. It all comes down to the Australian government protecting their own which just doesn't work. Ford and GM here are on their knees and will go the same way as the motor industry in the UK and no amount of government money or mugging foreign imports with massive taxes will prevent. Union madness, high wages versus the likes of eastern Europe, SA, India and china etc plus very poorly built cars and not following the market and customers wishes means its all over.
The average Ozzy doesn't earn that much and probably on parity with the states and nothing like what the resources feed employee does, to be honest I don't know how they survive!
Anyway it is what it is (for now) and I have had to do what the Ozzies say 'toughen up princess' and just coughed up.
Cheers
Jay
