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Originally Posted by oldtamiyaphile
It wasn't Australia that penalized the G1, it was Honda Australia. Keep in mind it cost over double the Civic.
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I think it is a shame that Australia imposed a penalty soo large it was double the cost of the Civic.
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The data previously shown to you disagrees with this PoV / Hypothesis of yours.
If you don't feel like going back to review the data already shown I'll give a brief summary of top 3 points bellow:
- Numerous other examples given (that you acknowledged Australia does) of an Australian imposed financial penalty on sales of a vehicle... 2x or even 3x Australian imposed price penalty in some known cases.
- You yourself admitted to a common 30% Australian imposed penalty on other imports.
"The usual mark up for a Japanese car is around 30%"
- At least 4 known examples of other markets that Honda was able to keep the MSRP down around $18~$19k... Even with their own import duties , taxes , shipping costs , all adding costs on to the price... ie Australia penalized much worse than these others did.