Ok lets not argue on the price of the car, its simple mathematics, anyone who tries to argue with pure numbers or tell you any different is just boring you or taking you for a trip.
Our S350L which is the indian version comes to around 80L which is med to high loaded and not fully loaded but the difference is, the duty charged on these cars is somewhere between 66-70% as compared to 104-112% duty.
Now lets understand one simple thing about the price of cars in Europe and US. The numerical value is easily calculated as a multiple of (1.1-1.15 times) Euro numeric value to get to USD value.
Now in US the S600L with designo package which comes with everything on it is about 155K USD which based on the numeric value conversion comes to around 135-140k Euro. Now simple take these 2 figure multiply with our to contradicting duty values we get 135*12.04 to 140*2.12 so 275-300K euro including delivery and handling. Now take this value add road tax and insurance(8-12%) you will come to a figure of about 300K - 330K euro on road in india.
Now with a simple tool called google you can convert this to the latest INR value hence we come to the price on road as 1.73 CR - 1.9 CR (TADA!!)
there you go, what was the point going "this one said this and my friend said this and the dealer said this"
Its plain mathematics's.
And now a food for though Bentley CGT is about 1.75-1.8 CR on road in delhi now it costs more in euros than S600, so how o how come one claim a price tag higher than that. Given a dealer could try and screw over an uniformed buyer but this is the general funda, you cant go wrong with this, if anything you can get it cheaper than my calculations..
Cheers
Last edited by 1Day : 17th February 2007 at 02:11.
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