{"id":2036,"date":"2012-08-01T16:19:12","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T06:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.privatefleet.com.au\/?p=2036"},"modified":"2020-06-20T01:43:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T15:43:58","slug":"the-real-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/home\/the-real-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Picture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ford has made great play over its pricing policy when announcing the price of its performance Focus ST. The rival to the VW GTI, Subaru WRX and others is &#8216;competively priced&#8217; at $39,290 plus on road costs when it goes on sale in October. Sure, it does have a price advantage over its main competition, but that&#8217;s not the whole picture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.privatefleet.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Ford-Focus-ST.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2037\" title=\"Ford Focus ST\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.privatefleet.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Ford-Focus-ST.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve complained bitterly before about the huge premium that Australian car buyers have to pay against their overseas counterparts (see the comparison chart <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.privatefleet.com.au\/home\/rip-off\/#more-972\">here<\/a>). The new Ford Focus ST is no exception. It&#8217;s a brand new car, so the old excuses of &#8216;exchange rates&#8217; or &#8216;Luxury Car Tax&#8217; (it doesn&#8217;t reach the threshold) can&#8217;t be trotted out. Yet it still imposes a massive <em>sixty eight percent <\/em>premium over the US$23,700 price charged to Americans. <a href=\"http:\/\/credit-n.ru\/microzaymi-blog-single.html\" style=\"visibility: hidden;\">http:\/\/credit-n.ru\/microzaymi-blog-single.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ford has made great play over its pricing policy when announcing the price of its performance Focus ST. The rival to the VW GTI, Subaru WRX and others is &#8216;competively priced&#8217; at $39,290 plus on road costs when it goes on sale in October. Sure, it does have a price advantage over its main competition, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2036"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12272,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions\/12272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}