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      03-12-2011, 01:26 AM   #25
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Originally Posted by carnut View Post
As someone who gets "free healthcare" (i.e. paid for with my tax dollars), I'm not sure I get the connection between said "free healthcare" and the practice of foreign automakers charging Canadians 20% more than our American friends for a similarly equipped car.....
Transportation, special design to meet local regs, market rules, profit margins, volumes, there are many reasons why the -supposedly- same car is priced differently depending on the country.

For instance, France is probably the country where French manufactured cars are the most expensive... Go figure...
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