PETROL EVOQUE

(29-07-2011 08:25am)vision*R Wrote:  I cannot think of any reasons why outside of the UK you only get half of the standard equipment on a Prestige. And yet it is like that!

Vison - usually it has something to do with local taxation rules or in the case of the USA Product Liability laws

I don't see how including parking sensors with camera or HDD navigation would influence taxation.
AFAIK cars are taxed on things like power, cylinder volume, carbon emission etc. around here.

Vision, there will be some strange Belgium/Dutch/French or German rule that makes the car in standand UK issue Prestige spec, subject to some luxury tax that car makers try to get around

It's a fact that cars are cheaper in the UK. My Lexus costs € 3000 less in the UK but at least they share the same equipment.
With the Evoque you pay € 2000 less AND you get more equipment. I'm still convinced it's LR discrimination.

For years, it was the other way round with cars in Europe being much less than in the UK which gave rise to the personal import business. Now, prices in the UK are much more competitive.

(29-07-2011 01:57pm)mark_n Wrote:  For years, it was the other way round with cars in Europe being much less than in the UK which gave rise to the personal import business. Now, prices in the UK are much more competitive.

It also may depend on fluctuations on Exchange Rate GBP-EUR, but what sounds a bit weird to me is the fact that normally each car maker has higher prices in their domestic market because they have a better competitive positioning with consumers that prefer to buy, for various reasons, cars built (or at least with company's headquarters location) in thier home countries. As an example, assuming a LR/RR car and a Audi/BMW/MB car are perceived with a similar / identical intrinsic "value" (brand, image, technology, and so on), majority of UK customers would choose the LR/RR at the same or even higher price and the other way round for the german potential buyer