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More ranting about the profiteering in Canada!

Yesterday I wrote about my Amazon.com experiences and their usurious profiteering on their Canadian website.

Today I'm on a related mission: Why are cars SO expensive in Canada?

Interest rates are at similar levels to those in the US (and perhaps even lower) and a significant number of vehicles that are sold in the US are actually manufactured in Canada.  So if you're in the US and buy a domestic vehicle, it's more than likely that your vehicle was manufactured in Ontario, Canada. That same vehicle sold to Canadians in Ontario is priced at a significant premium!

I'm now going to have to find a US dealership who will sell me a vehicle and then take the risk of driving it across the US/Canadian border.  Apparently all the major OEMs have an unwritten law stating they will withdraw a US dealer's franchise license if they sell vehicles to Canadians.  So I can't go to Buffalo or Cleveland or Detroit to buy my next car - I may have to go as far afield as Miami  ...

Perhaps it's just simpler if  I  just move back to the States!