Why aren't euro built cars getting cheaper?

[Hurdy]

The price of the £ V euro has gone from almost a pound to a euro back to 1.2 euros per pound, so why aren't euro built cars like BMW and VAG getting cheaper?

[bacillus]

They are getting cheaper for the UK agents, it's just that they don't pass these savings on to the customer...   

[RobH]

Its kinda similar to the price per barrel of petrol when it goes up we know about it when it goes down we carry on paying the same until it goes up again.

No doubt if the pound loses out to the euro again the price of cars will obviously go up. The goverment and corporate companys always sh!t on the consumer!

If/when the euro crashes, that will be interesting

[Hurdy]

If/when the euro crashes, that will be interesting

Yep, BMW's Porkers and Audi's at Poundland

Well I can dream!

[sub39h]

tbh we don't have MUCH grounds for complaining

for as long as i can remember boggo S-Classes (being used as a benchmark here) have cost £50k.

but £50k in the 1980s isn't the same as £50k now, and the cars now are MUCH better equipped.

similar story with the most basic car you can buy brand new. for ages they've cost around £6k. but your base car nowadays is more refined, safer and more comfortable than the £6k car from the 80s, 90s or 00s. it's also faster and more fuel efficient

cars are getting cheaper. at the end of the day the Europeans get shafted too. GTIs cost $20k in the USA. and they have to be tankered over there to boot. VW still makes a profit on them tho!