Re: ultimate audi?

[DeWitt Harrison <de@aztek-eng.com>]

On Fri, 08 Jan 1999 11:37:54 +1300, Dave Eaton wrote:
>[ ... ]
>you don't get the cars the rest of us do, but for the cars you do get, you
>pay bugger all for them.  lets see, 25k usd for a '99 a4 2.8q, or <$50k nzd.
>at the dealers here, they are asking around $80k nzd or $40k usd.  the only
>car tax we pay is general gst (ie vat) of 12.5%.  so we're paying about $15k
>usd more than you are, and we're *much* better off than many european
>countries.....

If it's not the taxes then you are saying, I think, that Audi and other
automobile manufacturers openly gouge consumers all over the world
if the US prices can serve as reference. I've never understood how
they manage that.

DeWitt Harrison
Boulder, CO
88 5kcstq