Australian Car Prices

[ABCD]

Thought I would test out the claim that car prices in Australia are the highest in the world. I recently took delivery of a manual GTI with metallic paint and DAP and paid a tad over $45K driveaway. I priced up the virtually identical car on the UK VW site and this came in at £33345 drive away, which at current exchange rates is about $60K!!! In the Republic of Ireland, where I know there are pretty hefty taxes on vehicles especially petrol engined ones, the same car came in at €46K or about $75K!!!!

[Paul_R]

VW cars in Aus have been well priced against UK versions for a long time. At first UK cars look cheaper but they come with nothing in them. By the time you option up all the things we get included - like cruise control etc - we come out on top.

Where Aus buyers lose out is in the rarified air well above the luxury car tax threshold. Try your experiment with a 911 and see how you go...

Addit: even try comparing Audi S3 vs Golf R pricing in UK and Aus. You should find the S3 much closer in price to the Golf in the UK as Audi have priced themselves up market in Australia.

[Splashalot]

I specced a GTI on the VW Germany configurator to be roughly equivalent to Aus spec and was gobsmacked at the price. Can't remember the exact figure but from memory ~$10k over Aus price.

[BenT]

What about an R Grid?

https://www.carsales.com.au/demo/details/Volkswagen-Golf-2017/OAG-AD-16289105

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[crainger]

I was ok with the price I paid for my GTI. Canada seems to get some great pricing, although Canada, like a lot of regions seem to find the GTI and the R not too far apart. Where as I got my loaded GTI 10k under what the R was at the time. This was before the Grid was thrown into the mix.

[Umai Naa!!]

There's not a lot of margin in them here, either.

Where they make a lot of it back is through accessories, servicing, and parts.

[Dutch77]

New margins still average ~ 10% for a new car department, at least towards the mid and upper level. Presumably would be a few points lower in the lower levels.

Finance and insurance are the other big money spinners for a lot of dealerships these days. Back ten years or so ago when the world economy was crumbling Ford Credit was worth more than the car bit.

[Ozsko]

Thought I would test out the claim that car prices in Australia are the highest in the world. I recently took delivery of a manual GTI with metallic paint and DAP and paid a tad over $45K driveaway. I priced up the virtually identical car on the UK VW site and this came in at £33345 drive away, which at current exchange rates is about $60K!!! In the Republic of Ireland, where I know there are pretty hefty taxes on vehicles especially petrol engined ones, the same car came in at €46K or about $75K!!!!

Try pricing it in Singapore, Oz prices are nothing compared to them. We are pretty lucky, Scandanavian countries are hugely expensive as well.

[Scratchyratface]

Singapore is off the scale for prices, last time I looked a Golf GTI was around $150k!

[Dutch77]

The 2013 Golf Design Vision GTI clocked in at around $6.4m AUD before taxes.

[crainger]

Singapore is off the scale for prices, last time I looked a Golf GTI was around $150k!

Yeah, but there are a higher percentage of millionaires than any other country in the world. They also actively discourage car ownership. Understandable when their MRT is fast and crazy cheap. $20 lasted me 2 weeks riding 5-6 times a day.

Can you imagine in the Design Vision made it into production? I just love how wide and thicc it is.

[Rooboy]

checked the US VW site and it worked out around au$51k without local taxes and on roads for the top of the range Golf Alltrack...I think I got a good deal

[Kachingg]

Thats petrol only as well no diesel engine option after diesel gate
So would be another 2.5k with the diesel and dq381
You definitely got a bargain