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Not surprised sales are down. Agree, in Quebec can not even test drive a car unless it has winter tires. I live in Ottawa Ontario and would not consider test driving an auto with summer tires. Ottawa, too many days with temps at O F or below, city blew its snow removal budget many weeks ago, and in these winter conditions my Camaro factory all season tires suck even on plowed/salted streets.
I am a professor, in the last 11 winters only cancelled my classes 3 times due to winter weather and my commute is about 8 miles round trip. Since Jan. 2014, cancelled my classes two times due to poor road conditions.
Agree GM Canada needs to rethink their pricing. May 2010, when I factory ordered my 2011 2LT, made in Canada Camaro, and USA & Canada $ equal, GM Canada price on my 2LT was about $3,500 more on the MSRP then same auto exported to the US (not a dealer markup). Ford Canada had the same MSRP markup on a similar optioned Mustang. Difference was GM Canada had (has) so many restrictions regarding warrenty on cross border purchases and Ford had no cross border warrenty restrictions.
Today, if I had to replace my Camaro, would buy in the US because Canadian $ down, US $ up and now Camaro's imported to Canada. I am one of a few "Canadians" that can buy in the US and import to Canada because my citizenship is US, but have been a permanent resident of Canada for many years. All I have to do is visit family in VA, NC, SC, FL and purchase a GM product there and export to Canada. Auto export from US to Canada not a big deal, done it twice with used cars during the last ten years.
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