wow, there's a dealer locally here that won't budge on one without the nav for $35k and 38k miles. I picked up mine with nav and only 16k miles for just over $35k...2005 Zambezi V8 SE
we sure are gettin ripped off.......half way around the world and half the price!
4th Dec 2006 6:06 pm
sideview
Member Since: 02 Dec 2006
Location: in the valley
Posts: 1663
LOL have you checked the difference in gas prices lately?
4th Dec 2006 8:49 pm
dlm3
Member Since: 24 Oct 2006
Location: League City, Tx
Posts: 54
Supply and demand doesn't care about exchange rates. If the market for a midrange SUV is $40-55K, then that's what the dealers will charge, regardless of how much it costs to offer a competitive vehicle in that range.
(note that the competition for the D3 here is the Toyota Sequoia, Infiniti FX 35, Lexus RX300, BMW X5 and Cadillac Escalade - none of which measure up, IMHO, but all cost in the same range and thus set the price LRNA can charge)
This is not to say that the dealers are completely unable to compensate for exchange rates - they can raise the price of the base vehicle or repackage it with more 'optional' items that were previously standard. Moreover, automobile companies are large enough to invest in currency futures contracts as a means of preserving exchange rate stability for their products over a given period.
(BTW: petrol here on the Texas gulf coast is running $2.30-2.45/gal)
4th Dec 2006 9:59 pm
ronp
Member Since: 29 Nov 2006
Location: North Yorkshire
Posts: 15214
Don't want to be seen as a bit dim.......but who is LOL that our US friends refer to??? Does LOL also have a D3?....sorry that should be LR3!!
Come on Register my friend. I was a normal heterosexual chap, but in these new woke awakenings I now identify as a Wardrobe.
Member Since: 27 Aug 2006
Location: Aberdeenshire
Posts: 27
It gets worse...... petrol at £1.25 a gallon.... makes you weep! Anyone for moving?
4th Dec 2006 10:27 pm
sideview
Member Since: 02 Dec 2006
Location: in the valley
Posts: 1663
ronp wrote:
Don't want to be seen as a bit dim.......but who is LOL that our US friends refer to??? Does LOL also have a D3?....sorry that should be LR3!!
Come on Register my friend.
Ha Ha! Now I'm ROFL (Rolling On the Floor Laughing)!
Don't worry you don't sound dim. I find myself reading posts 2 or 3 times trying to decifer proper English jive. If it weren't for that semester at Cambridge in '95 I'd really be feeling dim here!
4th Dec 2006 10:29 pm
ronp
Member Since: 29 Nov 2006
Location: North Yorkshire
Posts: 15214
Well done Sideview....taken in very good spirit
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I was a normal heterosexual chap, but in these new woke awakenings I now identify as a Wardrobe.
4th Dec 2006 11:34 pm
mrmarklin
Member Since: 29 Nov 2006
Location: People's Republik of Kalifornia
Posts: 168
dlm3 wrote:
This is not to say that the dealers are completely unable to compensate for exchange rates - they can raise the price of the base vehicle or repackage it with more 'optional' items that were previously standard. Moreover, automobile companies are large enough to invest in currency futures contracts as a means of preserving exchange rate stability for their products over a given period.
(BTW: petrol here on the Texas gulf coast is running $2.30-2.45/gal)
One cannot buy an "unloaded" LR3 here. On my HSE there were only 3 options: Luxury Package (including cold weather), Satellite radio and Heavy duty package. Everything else was "Standard", thus driving the sticker price to a high level. Not sure we're getting any bargains on this side of the pond.
Plus, I think UK prices are quoted with VAT, while quotes on US prices are sans sales tax that applies in most States.'06 LR3 4.4 V8 HSE Heavy Duty package, Satellite Radio, Luxury Package
5th Dec 2006 2:26 am
nobbyclark
Member Since: 03 May 2005
Location: Perth, Scotland
Posts: 1268
So buy it and ship it back to the UK. It's second hand so won't attract any duty. Ok, it'll cost about a grand to get it here, a few quid to get registered and you'll be sitting on the wrong side. Oh, and throwing fivers out the window every time you accelerate. But apart from that...No longer a D3 owner but still subscribed to multiple threads!
5th Dec 2006 9:14 am
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
Posts: 72787
Leave it US registered to make it harder for Red Ken to get his £25!
5th Dec 2006 10:26 am
mrmarklin
Member Since: 29 Nov 2006
Location: People's Republik of Kalifornia
Posts: 168
DSL wrote:
Leave it US registered to make it harder for Red Ken to get his £25!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I've been to the UK a couple of times, and one thing that struck me very forcibly is how much more real estate costs (rents, land etc)are there than what the average is in most of the US. In fact in many cases its multiples of what costs are in most of the US. Prices in the UK are generally higher than here, and I ascribe much of the reason to this fact. Retailers simply need better margins to survive.
I live in a higher cost US area for property, and this is very much the case where I live: Prices in general are higher here in the People's Republik. Red Ken would be right at home here. '06 LR3 4.4 V8 HSE Heavy Duty package, Satellite Radio, Luxury Package
5th Dec 2006 6:46 pm
dlm3
Member Since: 24 Oct 2006
Location: League City, Tx
Posts: 54
mrmarklin wrote:
One cannot buy an "unloaded" LR3 here.... Not sure we're getting any bargains on this side of the pond.
Plus, I think UK prices are quoted with VAT, while quotes on US prices are sans sales tax that applies in most States.
You can't get an 'unloaded' LR3 here either - the base model has a lot of stuff on it, and you rarely find them on the dealer lot because they don't sell - but they allow LR to claim it starts at <$40K.
Instead, you generally find a few that have minimal options on them, usually the ones LRNA finds most popular like Satellite Radio (as if I'd pay an extra $12/mo on that)
Sale tax varies by state, so yes, US prices don't include taxes - which are considerable, but not usually much more than 6-7%. (some states charge a personal property tax on automobiles annually as well)
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