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      01-18-2020, 10:49 AM   #12
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Can us citizens cross over the border and buy from a Canada dealership? It's about 16,000usd cheaper.
There is always a way if one is motivated enough, but:

a) I had to sign a non-export agreement. This time it has no teeth, but back in E46 M3 days, it carried a contracted $20K penalty.

b) BMW Canada has pretty tight control over regional sales. Didn't try on this round, but back in E46 M3 days, a dealer in a town 100km away wanted to but couldn't sell to me because my provided residence address was not in their range. Apparently BMW would punish dealers. Ought to be illegal, but Canada is pretty socialist.

c) You'd have to deal with BMW Assistant adding "eh" to everything. 8 months in, that's pretty irritating even for a Canadian.

There are other issues (like warranty, etc.), all likely can be dealt with, but may end up being too much hassle. But I think a fair trade would be that US underground railroads spare tire kits to Canada and gets G05 X5s in return.
In addition to the "eh", the assistant constantly says "I'm sorry" and apologizes for everything.

I've heard that too, if you've purchased in another country they'll try to not warranty anything because it came from a different market. (Doesn't make a ton of sense, what if you had moved countries?)

I don't know that new cars can be exported easily anymore. It's my understanding that with a lot of vehicles considered luxury it's a bit of a process to even allow you to purchase them, you can only lease to prevent them from being sent overseas. (My SA said he didn't think purchase wasn't an option on the X5, I didn't push because I wanted to lease). When I got our Mercedes 2.5yrs ago I was told anything AMG or higher models were lease only. They said that Benz tracks how many leave the country, and whatever that number is, they get that many less allocations for future models.

That said we get a bit of a "deal" on them compared to the US. Once spec'd what I just ordered was $110,000 cad. Based on US pricing it should be $130k cad. (Sorry eh)
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