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In Reply to: "Gray" is not a good color posted by Z8Bob on August 26, 2000 at 18:53:22:
True, sometimes. OTOH the differences between the country-specific versions are usually not very big nowadays.
but the modifications void the warranty. Your local BMW dealer will not honor warranty work for a European car.
Not true. He must by law. There even had been a case at the European Supreme Court against VW because they tried to force their dealers not to sell cross-country. VW had to pay quite a nice fine *vbg*
Additionally, the bigger part of the income of German dealers comes from the service and not from the sales side so they are not that disadvantaged.
The resale market for Gray cars is historically about 50% of standard imports. Any "deal" on the front end, loses is luster when you are trying to live with maintence and poor resale value.
Depends, but often true. OTOH if I could get any car at 25% below sticker the lower resale value does not affect me much.
European car prices are not meaningful to the American market.
I would not necessarily call it "not meaningful". The world is getting smaller today and more and more people are no longer prepared to pay different prices for the same goods only because they live in the "wrong" country.
Whether cars should trade at MSRP is a curious discussion. Most American cars trade below MSRP, an no one complains but the dealer. A few trade above, due to demand. Sometimes at silly prices. So?
Well, again, I do not call the ones dumb who are selling high priced if they find someone willing to pay *xxleg*
cu, tg
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