Lets go a Traditional Australian Car....Ford Focus XR5 Turbo.
Total Cost Au: $37,000
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I think the calculation should be done this way:
state an international amount of money, and see what you can buy in each area.
Then compare the car.
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To be fair though, thats about an average price for a decent performance car in Australia, so we'll be happy to pay for it.
If only for our beautiful weather!
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I've picked the base trim level 5 door Astra with the 1.8 litre engine. The prices are as follows:
Spain: 18.510,00€
Italy: 19.650,00€
Australia: $22.290,00
US: $16.495,00
Canada: $18.390,00
Let's remind the macroeconomic figures for each country:
Spain: 20.976,63 intl. $ (0,84)
Italy: 23.175,02 intl $ (0,91)
Australia: 27.993,56 intl $ (1,39)
US: 36.098,15 intl. $ (1,00)
Canada: 28.397,69 intl. $ (1,26)
Now the price in intl. $ for each country (Tha'ts multiplying the price by the PPP).
Spain: 15.548,40 intl. $
Italy: 17.881,50 intl $
Australia: 30.983,10 intl $
US: 16.495,00 intl $
Canada: 23.171,40 intl $
And now the time it would take to buy the Astra, on average, in each country given the GDP per capita.
Spain: 0,74 years
Italy: 0,77 years
Australia: 1,11 years
US: 0,46 years
Canada: 0,82 years
As you can see thing have changed a bit, but not that much. The US gets the best deal by far, and Australia is last. Then Spain and Italy are very close together, but quite far from the US. And Canada is still fourth. With the worse driving roads ever. And bad weather.
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Excellent job Albert.
Now we could even take into count other factors, such as, how much money Joe Average spends every moths to pay bills, health care, taxes, and other things which are "mandatory" but very different in each country.
At the end of such a calculation, it should came out who can spend more on his car and who has the larger part of his check gone into other costs.
Like saying, I could even get 3.000 € a month as a blue collar, but if then I have to pay more for water, electricity, food and other necessary goods, perhaps at the end of the day a blue collar living on Pluto and receiving 1.000 € a month has more money to spend the way he prefers every month after he payed all the bills&co.
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I'd thought that GDP per capita is not as accurate as average wage so I think these calculations are off potentially. If we had the average wage of each country then did something with PPP we'd get much better results no?
And yes, our roads are pretty shitty but not as bad as Michigan's.
i like what Ferrer said. BUT, im mixed when it comes to cars. tuners, excotics and muscles. i like 'em. Ferrer has a point though. he wants Mustangs, i want Alfa's, SEAT's, Renualt's and so on and so forth.
those lucky Europeans...
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