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Originally Posted by oldtamiyaphile
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.
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The real price is what you pay out the door. I can't find what actual import duties were in 2000, but various sources (like this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/14/au...ow-motion.html ) have them declining from a high of an effective 150% in the 1980s.
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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.
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And as I showed a few pages back, using actual numbers (with references), the break-even point for a 2000 Insight vs the same year Civic in the US is well under the 190K miles mine has actually been driven.