All quads in Canada are over priced compared to prices in the states, but Honda seems to take it a step further.

You might know that the Canadian dollar is now about $0.98USD, (i think that was when it closed on wednesday) and yet all the manufacturers are still charging AT LEAST 30% more for a quad in Canada than in the USA. Need examples?

(i rounded the prices, so give or take a dollar[usually take])

TRX450ER (or trx450r electric start as it says on the american site)
USA: $7000
Canda: $10200

TRX400EX
USA: $6000
Canada: $8340

TRX300EX
USA: $5000
Canda: $7200

TRX250EX (worst offender)
USA: $4000
Canada: $6530- That is a ratio of 1.6325!!!! And the dollar is almost parallel.

What do you guys think of this? Isnt it stupid?

 

Well, possibly the dealers had bought the bikes when the US/CAN dollar were at a different level. I doubt they just bought them Wednesday afternoon.

But there still is room for them the drop the price a little.

Did you ask the dealer to drop the price? More importantly, are you serious about buying?

Nothing makes a price drop like having cash, or being pre-approved for a loan. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]

 

Isn't there a free trade agreement??? Can't you just buy one down here and take it back...no big deal??? My neighbor has a summer home up there in the Rocky Mountains, and he bought down here and leaves them up there.......

I'm a former Canadian, and I would never go back because of taxes/economic issues. But give Hillary Clinton enough time, and she will have us socialized and taxed just like up there, and ruin this country too!

 

lol thats there game plan! Anyhow as good as Hondas are,everytime I have gone into a Honda dealership I feel like Im looked down on,I just sense an aire of superiority I dont know if there just squatholes are that is how they are taught by Honda's management but I dont like it AN will NEVER buy a new HOnda for that reason alone.

 

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: sugarhead

lol thats there game plan! Anyhow as good as Hondas are,everytime I have gone into a Honda dealership I feel like Im looked down on,I just sense an aire of superiority I dont know if there just squatholes are that is how they are taught by Honda's management but I dont like it AN will NEVER buy a new HOnda for that reason alone.</end quote></div>

i think it MIGHT just be your dealer, not all dealers are freaks

IRT (stands for "In Reply To, so everyone knows from now on): Reconranger

Is there no tarriffs anymore if i were to buy a quad south of the border?

Taxes in Canada dont seem too bad as far as i know.... only 6% General Sales Tax (GST) and 8%Provincial Sales Tax (PST) in ontario. But if you own a farm, you can say its for farm use and then you can get some of the taxes back at the end of the year- As long as it has a rack on it, so if you're buying a $10300 quad (yep thats the canadian msrp price for a 700raptor SE) just get the dealer to install racks on it for maybe 150 or something (i have no idea how much they are) but you end up saving about $1500 because of the tax savings
-dont take my word for it though, i really dont have a clue exactly how it works

 

Yah the prices are very strange, considering the US and Can dollar just reached the same value, which means there is no exchange rate, what the hell??

 

It's not just Honda, and Honda isnt as bad as any other OEM. For example....

Last week I needed to have a tire sent from American Suzuki to a consumer in Alabama for the rear of a M109R. Suzuki has a contract with Dunlop on this tire concerning it's manufactuer AND it's distribution....at least for the time being. Well, American Suzuki had them on backorder (makes alot of sense being a tire that you MUST buy from them to ride at all) and they didnt know when they would be getting them. After a few chosen words of what I thought of such a shananigan by an OEM, they had one sent to him from Suzuki of Canada. I dont remember the exact costs, but I do remember that it was nearly a $50.00 difference,....for a TIRE. Not including the special freight charges from Canada.

So while a few hundred may appear to be big issue concerning an entire ATV purchase,....50 bucks more just for a tire makes a complete ATV purchase look like a steal!!

 

yeah im not bashing honda as a brand,as Im not brand loyal an I currently own an 86 Honda nighthawk 700 sc.It kinda started the street fighter look before the look was popular.Im not thrilled w any dealerships me an a few of my buds call them stealerships lol

 

By the way knowalaot what made you get ridd of your atk/cannondale it looked like a nice bike?sorry to get off thread