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Originally Posted by jamesqf
So now we seem to have a general "cars are almost twice as expensive in Australia as in the US" problem, because the MSRP for the 2000 Prius was $19,995 US. I've no idea what could be the cause of the difference, other than taxes or import duties.
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Not really, the current Mitsubishi Mirage is about $2500 cheaper here for example compared to the US price. I'm going to stick with the conclusion that Honda and Toyota didn't take a 50% loss for cars sold here, like they seem to have in the US, our price was the 'real' one.
As mentioned a few pages ago, you could have bought a Suzuki Swift for $13k, or a Gen 1 for 49K, that gave the Insight a roughly 4 million kilometre break even point.