Yes lucky you. Not me: after waiting almost 3 years for a Z06 allocation, I'm faced with a HUGE and unprecedented price increase. Don't forget to add the associated HST or GST, to that $22,000 extra, which means to actual increased cost to Canadians is even more.
And comparing Canada to other markets to somehow justify or explain the "made only for Canada massive price increase", isn't fair or accurate. Shipping costs from the USA for a C8, to Europe or other overseas markets, are vastly different compared to what it costs to truck/train a vehicle on the ground, from the States to Canada. Transportation to Canada has been going on for a long time and there's a well established network in place. Those other markets have different rules/regulations that impact "foreign/imported" vehicle pricing. GM has to recoup its design and production costs, for the right-hand drive C8, so some of the higher overseas pricing is for that reason. Canada has its own rules/regulations such as our metric system, which isn't a big deal when setting up electronics that switch between metric and imperial, which vehicle electronics have been in place for a long time now. Canada has a large/developed GM dealer network in place, compared to these overseas markets. So Canada can easily handle warranty claims and the charge back from the Canadian dealer network to GM has been carefully considered and worked out, again for a LONG time. Canadian vehicle pricing for GM product, in relation to what it charges for in the States, has been set for decades and GM still manages to make a profit and keep its Canadian dealers in business. Those past Canadian prices were carefully considered and set specifically for our Canadian market, separate and apart from other markets.
The Canadian new MY (model year) prices have NEVER increased to the same level as our 2024 C8 increase. And finally, GM chose to make this massive price increase, all in the same MY, as opposed to incrementally. That demonstrates its attitude towards Canadian hopeful C8 purchasers and IMO shows that GM is counting on a large decrease of Canadian orders, which will better enable it to compete globally with the C8 line, by providing even more allocations to the overseas markets it's looking to develop. And is you think I'm wrong about that, you need only look to where ALL our Canadian allocations went, when we faced a past drop of almost 50% of our regular allocations all in the same MY: they went to Europe, Australia and Japan...NONE of those overseas allocations came from the regular percentage of allocations given to the States. So once more, it was a "made only for Canada" allocation alteration.
To try and justify this or explain it away...and smooth over the anger from (previously loyal) Canadian C8/GM fans like me, isn't possible. My 2 (very unhappy) cents.
