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| Kraka's Dad wrote: | Well you would hardly expect it to be would you?
Can you get 3 pigs 6 sacks of animal food and 9 relatives in the back of your BMW though?
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 9:22 pm Post subject: |
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| bozzman101 wrote: | REMINDS ME OF THEOLD JOKE WHATS THE DIFF BETWEEN A BMW AND A HEDGEHOG
ON A HEDGEHOG THE PRICKS ARE ON THE OUTSIDE........LOL |
What's the most popular car in Ireland BZ? The way your economy is growing, maybe an Irish national brand is not too far away? Pete |
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 9:27 pm Post subject: |
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hi Pete lots of bmw lots of lady drivers with large suv
price here is astronomical audi q7 90,000 euro
bmw relevant prices too but the women here all want a big suv thinghy now
no wonder i want to get out
even alpha romeo 36k
basic box with 4 wheels toyota yaris 12 k up
feel there living on the past celtic tiger lots of buisness here closeing down they cant compete anymore
with asia or east europe p+g have cosed a factory here opening in Poland instead
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| bozzman101 wrote: | hi Pete lots of bmw lots of lady drivers with large suv
price here is astronomical audi q7 90,000 euro
bmw relevant prices too but the women here all want a big suv thinghy now
no wonder i want to get out
even alpha romeo 36k
basic box with 4 wheels toyota yaris 12 k up
feel there living on the past celtic tiger lots of buisness here closeing down they cant compete anymore
with asia or east europe p+g have cosed a factory here opening in Poland instead |
I can't picture a 'celtic tiger' but I'll look it up and probably recognize it?
It's interesting as the BBC or CNN had a special report on here a few months ago about all the Polish workers coming to work in Ireland and the language problems they were having. Now it seems Irish businesses are opening factories in Poland?  Pete |
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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as i see it the ship will at some stage start sinking here
everything is vastly over priced
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visit to doctor 45 euro
pahrmacy augmenten 575 mg 14 tabs 20 euro plus pharmacy fee
cup of coffee 2 euro to frothy one near 3 euro
house ins 1000 euro
electricty 2 mths 229 euro
gas 2 mths 300 euro
car ins 800 average
car 20 k for second hand
school fees 11 yr old to walk in the gates 10,000 a year
out for a night 400 euro
Pete you might like to do a comparison with figs from pattaya
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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A Q7 will cost you more than 90,000 Euros in Thailand, thats for sure
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| bozzman101 wrote: | | Pete you might like to do a comparison with figs from pattaya |
That for sure is a no brainer. I wonder if the island next to you would be more or less expensive if now on the Euro instead of the Pound? Pete |
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| Winkie wrote: | | A Q7 will cost you more than 90,000 Euros in Thailand, thats for sure |
Yep, I have a theory about things like that. It's not the 100-200% tax revenue that's so important to them, it's keeping high status vehicles out of the hands of the not so high status people. "My goodness, what would we do if EVERYONE had one?" Pete |
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Now here in farangland i bought my BMW330I , 4 year old and 60.000 Km on the counter for only 17.000 euro. But moving to Thailand soon I will buy a Fortuna. Best value for money at precent.... |
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| prcscct wrote: | | Winkie wrote: | | A Q7 will cost you more than 90,000 Euros in Thailand, thats for sure |
Yep, I have a theory about things like that. It's not the 100-200% tax revenue that's so important to them, it's keeping high status vehicles out of the hands of the not so high status people. "My goodness, what would we do if EVERYONE had one?" Pete |
Pete
You are exactly right.
And because of the high price, and exclusivity. those with cash MUST have one.
Mini Cooper S, in EU how much? Maybe around Euros 17-18K? (Not really sure, never been that interested in them), here how much? 2.7 Milion Baht (Euros 56,000)!!!!!!!
For a small town car!!!!!!
Import Car prices are exceeding Singapore prices, once a place where cars were obscenely expensive. Now its here. OK locally produced is priced more reasonably, but even the locally assembled Merc and BMW command ridiculous prices, but they sell!
And many people buy them, simply because their friends can't afford one!!!
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| Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 8:37 am Post subject: |
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| Fortuners in my opinion do drive like a pick up, very floaty. Nice if driven steadily but thats where they are good. Great value for money - but not a purpose built SUV chassis - like a CRV for instance. Great car but a touch expensive. |
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Winkie
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| Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 9:02 am Post subject: |
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If the 'S' in SUV is for supermarket, then I agree!
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| Buy a Chevy pick up and have everyone in Issan wanting to load their prize bulls on it becuse the big boys like to ride in style and take a dim view of prissy Fortunas. The dealers have used cars and trucks so that's a good place to start to look for a used veichle. |
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Winkie
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| Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 11:57 am Post subject: |
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Haven't looked in HH, but in BKK almost al of the offical delaers DO NOT sell used cars, and many are not interested in P/Ex
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| Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 12:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Winkie wrote: | | and many are not interested in P/Ex |
This is true, when I was looking at purchasing new only one of the dealers made an effort to take the old shed. Honda, Toyota and Ford didn't want to know, only Mitsubishi did - so I got one of them!
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