"The Artgineer" (artgineer)
04/26/2018 at 09:16 • Filed to: None
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"The Artgineer" (artgineer)
04/26/2018 at 09:16 • Filed to: None | 2
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While Ford is killing the hatchbacks, !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , back!
fintail
> The Artgineer
04/26/2018 at 09:29 |
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They’ve also brought over a wagon:
Nice going, MBUSA.
jimz
> fintail
04/26/2018 at 09:31 |
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so when are you buying one?
Aremmes
> The Artgineer
04/26/2018 at 09:32 |
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I swear to dog, Ford could’ve nipped the hot hatch wars in the bud a long time ago if they’d just brought the Cammer-powered Focus to production.
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fintail
> jimz
04/26/2018 at 09:34 |
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Bring over a C250d wagon and I’ll put in an order today.
If a C wagon can be viable in a place with 1/10th the population as Murka, no reason it won’t work in the latter, too. But these are likely lower margin products than bloatling CUVs, and don’t have the butch image newly-minted Stepfords crave, so there we are.
Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer
> The Artgineer
04/26/2018 at 09:35 |
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IIRC Canada is a stronger market for hatches and wagons.
Which makes it more baffling that Buick isn’t giving us the TourX
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The Artgineer
> Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer
04/26/2018 at 09:44 |
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As a whole, I’m sure we still buy less compacts and hatches than Americans, but Canadians tend to buy a segment under what their American equals would buy.
Probably because we have similar wages in terms of amounts of dollars, but our money is worth less, especially when it comes to cars. If I have $30K for a car in the US, I can buy a Camry, in Canada you’ll get a Corolla.
I have no actual numbers to prove that though.
CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
> The Artgineer
04/26/2018 at 09:44 |
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Hooray for Canada! Also, long time no post!
Wacko
> The Artgineer
04/26/2018 at 09:47 |
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you forgot to factor in the price difference too
Meaning that the price we canadians would pay a Corolla, that price would be closer to what an american would pay for a Camry.
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The Artgineer
> fintail
04/26/2018 at 09:49 |
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We’ve had the B-Class, C-Class, E-Class wagon for a while up here. The B was ridiculous offer, a boring FWD and very expensive hatch. The C and E are not exactly small cars.
The A-Class is really a non-crossover version of the GLA.
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The Artgineer
> Wacko
04/26/2018 at 09:53 |
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That’s exactly what I meant
Probably because we have similar wages in terms of amounts of dollars, but our money is worth less, especially when it comes to cars. If I have $30K for a car in the US, I can buy a Camry, in Canada you’ll get a Corolla.
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Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer
> The Artgineer
04/26/2018 at 10:04 |
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Less as a whole but a higher percentage I think.
I could be wrong but I’d think it pretty much evens out. The money is worth less but the wages are higher.
Here’s something interesting for you
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fintail
> The Artgineer
04/26/2018 at 10:04 |
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Yep Canadia got the B in 2006, I think. It just came south of the border a few years ago, electric-only and rarely seen. The E wagon has always existed in the US, but the 205 C is not yet (and likely not at all) in that market. Canada also gets a SWB S-class not sold in the US since the 2006 model year.
I don’t know why MB handles Canadian offerings so different. Option packages are also different, closer to UK or Europe.
The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
> The Artgineer
04/26/2018 at 10:15 |
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You could get a manual in the B-Class. The manual turbo B-Class is a bucket list car.
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The Artgineer
> Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer
04/26/2018 at 10:32 |
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If you compare similarly important cities outside of the main big cities, in the 150-200k population like say, Kingston or Sherbrooke with Salt Lake city, or Ottawa and Washington, and there’s often more than 30% difference in wages in Americans’ favours.
Maybe it’s because I work in IT, and it’s more apparent there. Automobile plant workers in Canada make about as much as their American comrades, but I don’t know a single American SysAdmin who makes 45K before tax like I do, even if they work in the middle of no where in Louisiana.
Edit : I forgot to say, Western Canada kinda fucks with the numbers here, because there’s about the same difference in wealth between West-East (Outside of big cities) than there is between USA-Canada.
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The Artgineer
> The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
04/26/2018 at 10:34 |
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It’s wrong wheeled drive tho. That’s a NoGo for a Mercedes.
HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles
> The Artgineer
10/01/2018 at 14:40 |
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I hate how much i like that.
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HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles
> The Artgineer
10/01/2018 at 14:40 |
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I hate how much i like that.