Where is the Audi A5 manufactured?

Fr0dders · 24 Jun 2010 at 00:08

my post was discussing whether the car would be cheaper in the US or not. I did some research, shared my findings and disclosed what exchange rate i was using to calculate they cost roughly the same.

It was you who started with the patronising "LOL OMG YOU GET RIPPED OFF ON THE HIGHSTREET YOUR SUCH A THICKO" post.

[TW]Fox · 24 Jun 2010 at 00:11

Because the rates being used and the source for them were irrelevent and I found it completely bizarre that a place flogging holiday money was used as a basis for the conversion. He's buying a £30,000 car, he's not going to change his money on the high street. He's going to get a much better deal if he goes that way. I felt using such a source for such figures demonstrated a massive lack of understanding in how forex works. I voiced this opinion.

Debates between me and you are rarely anything other than a demonstration of what happens when a solid object meets an immovable force so lets leave it at that.

Fr0dders · 24 Jun 2010 at 00:13

Fox your being an arse

We know the exchange rate is lower on the highstreet, i quoted what i was using. It was YOU who had to question it.

[TW]Fox;16810295 said:
Isn't a base spec A5 a better model in the US?

Where did your 'best' exchange rate come from as It's 1.4875 right now.

[TW]Fox;16812252 said:
I'm sorry but if you arrange foreign currency using high street travel agents then I feel sorry for you. It's answered a question I had last week though along the lines of 'What sort of person actually uses these places, LOL', though.

why couldnt you just leave it alone safe in the knowledge that when i meant "best" i blatently wasnt including on-line and other deals. Been as the car is priced to within a few £100 of the US price, the extra 0.04 $ that the interenet gets you still wont change the fact the price is roughly the same.

You just saw the word best and decided to turn on the usual Fox charm and have a go.

[TW]Fox · 24 Jun 2010 at 00:24

MrLOL said:
We know the exchange rate is lower on the highstreet, i quoted what i was using. It was YOU who had to question it.

I questioned it because I do not understand why you were using that rate in your calculations. I still don't understand why you were using that rate in your calculations, nobody doing a large foreign currency exchange for the purposes of purchasing a high value item would ever use that rate.

You utterly wrongly stated the 'best' exchange rate as being 1.42 when in reality it was miles from that and you expect nobody to pick you up? And when you do get picked up rather than simply admit you were wrong you have to try and spin it so its me that was wrong?

why couldnt you just leave it alone safe in the knowledge that when i meant "best" i blatently wasnt including on-line and other deals.

You continue to show a massive lack of understanding here and I'm not sure you even realise the point I am making. If you are going to make calculations you have a duty to ensure they are as accurate as they can, surely.

Been as the car is priced to within a few £100 of the US price,

Well its not, because you compared base to base and US base is different to UK base.

the extra 0.04 $ that the interenet gets you still wont change the fact the price is roughly the same.

Roughly the same? At your original quote of 1.42 the price of a UK car in dollars would be 35,961.50. At the correct spot rate (Not the 'internet price', not sure what you are on about there) which you'd be far, far closer to by using a proper forex broker for this sort of transaction, the price of the same car would be 37670.

Nearly TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS more expensive! And you think that makes no difference?! I simply cannot accept calculations which lead to an error of that margin. In Forex, a difference in spot rate between say 1.42 and 1.4875 is simply huge - if the true rate was, say, to differ by that amount over the course of a day it would make headline news around the world!

Yet you call me an arse and simply dismiss it out of hand because you think its not a big difference?!

Slackworth · 24 Jun 2010 at 00:27

Enough already! Get it back on topic please.

Anchundan · 24 Jun 2010 at 06:26

Actually, I would be paying in GBP anyway, as I work for an English company out here.

My main reasons to buy in UK and not USA are because the USA spec car seems to be equivalent to the S-Line, which sounds like it has quite a harsh ride, due to the 18" wheels. I would go for the SE line, which has 17" wheels.

Also, I'm not sure if I would be able to get a USA spec'd car's speedometer/odometer converted to KMH, and things like having temperature in Fahrenheit would annoy me! Also I hear due to strict emissions regulations, the performance is capped (not sure if this is really a problem). However, the base spec is much higher than the UK base spec. so it seems it would be much cheaper to buy from USA.

There is a company in Southampton who specialise in shipping cars to other countries, and they have already quoted me a price of £996 to ship the car from Southampton to Tianjin, China, with a transit time of 37 days.

thepharcyde · 24 Jun 2010 at 07:09

You don't fancy an epic road trip yourself?

Road of bones springs to mind

taximike · 24 Jun 2010 at 17:28

AlfCheesey said:
Actually, I would be paying in GBP anyway, as I work for an English company out here.

My main reasons to buy in UK and not USA are because the USA spec car seems to be equivalent to the S-Line, which sounds like it has quite a harsh ride, due to the 18" wheels. I would go for the SE line, which has 17" wheels.

Also, I'm not sure if I would be able to get a USA spec'd car's speedometer/odometer converted to KMH, and things like having temperature in Fahrenheit would annoy me! Also I hear due to strict emissions regulations, the performance is capped (not sure if this is really a problem). However, the base spec is much higher than the UK base spec. so it seems it would be much cheaper to buy from USA.

There is a company in Southampton who specialise in shipping cars to other countries, and they have already quoted me a price of £996 to ship the car from Southampton to Tianjin, China, with a transit time of 37 days.

I can assure you that for the US market the suspension will be softer than the Euro market - it's how they like their cars over there! The temperature you can adjust to put it into deg C - the speedo on a US audi tends to have MPH and km/h just the same as they do in the UK. People in the US take their cars up to Canada quite a lot! I am unaware of the performance being capped - seems to have the same BHP as the Euro models. I'd certainly look into it tbh. Just talk to some dealers - they're likely to be quite helpful