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Originally Posted by GotBass?
According to an other thread, the official price of the 135 coupe in the UK will be £29475.
The base price for a 335 coupe in the UK is £35775 while a similar car sells for $51600 in Canada.
Based on that, a price of about $42500 would make sense...
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A valid analysis if we accept the assumption implicit here that BMW Canada will use the same currency exchange rates 9 months from now that they are currently using. An optimist would hope that BMW would finally come to (1) accept the fact that the Canadian dollar is not worth 75-80 cents US, hasn't been for a long time, and is very unlikely to be that low again barring a major recession given Canada's resource-based economy and the growing demand for resources wordwide; and (2) realize that they are losing so many sales by inflating their prices 10-15% over US levels that they are hurting their bottom line. On this, though, I am not an optimist.