I purchased a V6 Cayenne with Comfort Plus Pkg. and it ended up being $80K plus taxes, I went and priced the same V6 Cayenne with the Premium Pkg Plus on the US website and it was over 15K cheaper. And the US Premium Pkg Plus came with Air Suspension and PASM (a $5k upgrade in Canada) and the Canadian Comfort Plus Pkg. doesn't even come with PASM. So after the 6.5% duty and a few other fees it is remarkably cheaper to buy in the USA. Just for kicks I priced out a CS from the US and it is the same price as a Base Cayenne in Canada. Crazy. Factor in our income tax differential and it is depressing...

 

2011 Cayenne,
I would be happy for you to buy a US CS. I would keep it for 6 month with me in Virginia then you could bring it up to Canada and only pay tax duties on the depreciated value minus 10k! I'll have a umber one please :0)

 

Joking aside, with the dollar on par. It is cheaper to buy one off the US lot and drive it up.

 

I know! Not only cheaper but I could get a well equiped CS for what I paid for my C....

 

That is why I'm asking a lot of questions about the Cayennes. Next summer I'll will be 1 year away from coming back to Canada and I was sure that I would bring home an X5. Now I really like the Cayenne ( pending the test drive when my dealer gets some in!).

 

Therefore to minimize taxes and duty I need to buy it next summer.

 

Only problem with bringing the X5 up here is the service - they will not cover it up here. So I would do your research before pulling the trigger.

Yes Canada prices are more but apparently the heating bills at Porsche force them upwards. Did you get a currency discount at all?

 

I was told that Porsches are cheaper in the US than in any other country in the world because the US market is their biggest. Cheaper to buy a Porsche in the US than in Germany.

 

You are correct about the BMW Canada maintenance if you buy in the US, unless you buy under the Diplo program. Then you warranty will be observed regardless in which country you are in (Canada or US). As far as currency discount, its all about timing. Last time I bought a BMW Canadian dollar was better than par (1.05 actually, 2007). We are again at par, so factor in the fees that you and your bank manager will agree to, and exchange your $60K. Now with Porsche you will have two choices

1. Buy a C in Canada or same price buy a CS in the US and do yearly trips to a US dealer for warranty with the $20K you save.

2. Buy a C in the US and pocket the $20K difference, put your kid through one or two years of College and still go to the US for warranty work.

back in 2008 or 9, Porsche reduced their prices in Canada by about 10% due to the currency. I believe that it is time for them to look at pricing again. According to importation rules all Cayennes are admissible to Canada, therefore factor in your taxes and 6.1% duty at the border and the worst you will have to do is change your speedometer to kph, if you don't like the little stickers that DMW will put on your speedo to indicate KPH (which you will remove immediately anyway!). It will still be cheaper in the US.

all in my opinion of course.

Cheers

 

There was a small currency discount $2500 on the V6 and I think $5K on the CS.
If you are sold on the manual tran. I would get a fully loaded C with the premium plus pkg. and the rims you really want. In a year you could probably sell it for what you paid for it in Canada. If you are not 100% on the manual I would get a CS and you will still be ahead after a year in Canada. I had heard that the warranty work could still be done in Canada with a US car. Has that changed?

 

I am looking at buying a 2008 GTS in the US. I spoke a former P dealer sales guy and he said that Porsche is still covering the Warr (both Factory and CPO) in Canada. Many CDN dealers will over charge for recall letters and turning on the DRLs (programming that the customer can do). US dealers are not suppose to issue recall letters, but many will.

Almost all of the US dealers are not allowed to sell new to Canadians for export. My parents baught a new Boxster in Az last year to keep at their winter home there. The dealer made them sign an agreement that it would not be exported for 2 years.

My company bought 10 new US vehicles from a dealer in California in late 2007 (4 Hondas and 6 GMs - same dealer group owned both stores). We used a MT address. I got a call from the dealer 1.5 years later asking for copies of the US titles as Honda was auditing them. We never titled them in the USA. They were fined a few thousand dollars per vehicle by honda.

 

The warranty should still apply in both US and Canada whether it is a Canadian or US car. In BMW's case, you will loose the free maintenance if you buy in the US and bring the car up to Canada and vise versa. I found that out when I bought my BMW from Canada to the US when the exchange rate was 1US to 1.5Can. The dealer here also have no problem servicing my 996 under warranty which is also a Canadian car. I do know that dealers are not allowed to sell to someone who will export the car right away. That holds true in both countries. Something to do with their dealer agreement, I think.

 

Back when the Dollar was trading 1US to 1.5 Cdn, there were hordes of Canadian vehicles being exported to the US by brokers. A friend of my dad's (a former GM dealer) was selling 30 plus cars a month at the auction in Salt LAke City. They made a few grand per unit. They could not buy new (dealer agreement), so he and his partner would by from fleets, do a small amount of recondition and sell. We sold half a dozen 6 month old trucks to him (duramax, Denali, Sequoia) for only a few grand less than we paid for them.