CBC and a few other media brought up this issue yet very little has been improved on the macro level. Like many of these article says, the victims either got their refunds or kept the vehicles.
I vote with my money these days and I walk away from shady dealers.
It's all lip services, our regulatory entities have little to no power to enforce anything in Canada. That's why Canadians are being gouged with everything from banks, telecom, car buying. I would say anything we have to shop around is because we are gouged by someone.
6k fine to the dealer is...
Exactly, it's gotten worse since inventory was tight. I asked Toyota and Honda HQ in the past about their dealers practice. Both basically said dealers are independent business owners and they have no control over how business is conducted and asked me to contact the manager if I have concerns...
That's what I am hoping. My mental calculation of FL5's 53K + 10% Acura branding = $58K is my prediction. That is still within my budget.
I made deposits around town, for those who have not shopped a car for a while... this is to guarantee I can get a preference of my choice since dealers are...
I got a couple more dealers asking for color preferences, looks like Acura is taking in orders now. They don't have MSRP to share. They believe the car would be around 60K as well.
Are you guys willing to be forced to take a trade in or pay the ransom in thousands of dollars just to get this...
I dropped a few deposits around town and was told I am in the front. I also don't mind waiting but I am afraid my existing car's value will drop if I wait.
I didn't ask too many details, and I will drop the dealers who add packages or basically inflated the price.
I told all of them I have a...
These are the color choices for Canada:
Silver w/ black
Blue w/ black
Grey w/ red
White w/ red
Black w/ red
Yellow w/ black
I am mulling over the costs. The Mrs is not 100% committed into more monthly payments.
I wanted the FL5, but it is impossible because each dealer is getting like 2 per year while a few of them got a few used with low KM and asking for 82k. That's a lot of cars and getting into Porsche Cayman category which is much better than the FL5.
The ITS is another option, what I worry about...