Fiat Presents "New" Stilo in Brazil

$50k for the Abarth version, it must be a really upmarket car out there (!)

Sorry for my poor english. Yes MrTed. They are really crazy. I'm Brazilian and a car lover. Unfortunately I think I live in the wrong country. Here in Brazil ALL cars as VERY expensive. I have a Peugeot 206 1.6 16v 2006/2006. I spent R$: 42.000,00(U$ 21.000,00) on it. In USA, with this money I could buy a VW Jetta or Golf GTI - Rabbit(we still have the MK4 and a "new" MK4,5 Golf here) A Golf GTI costs around U$50.000 in Brazil. And believe me... we have a lot of them here. Brazilian people, specifically in São Paulo, are very rich, but everything here is SO EXPENSIVE. A Porsche 911 Turbo, which costs around U$: 120.000 in USA, in Brazil they are sold for around U$: 350.000 Anda again... we have many of them in são paulo. And the problem isn't only the price. We have a lot of "junk cars" here. For example, a VW Fox(same mechanic and chassis as the Polo). Fox is a very popular car here and it is a really junk car. Everything in the interior are pure plastic of worst quality with no air conditionated and no hydraulic steering. VW sells a FOX 1.6 like this for around U$ 18.000 We do not have the VW Golf MK5(neither the MK4 R32), we do not have the Peugeot 207, neither the Astra american or european version, neither the beautiful chevrolet and ford SUVs. That's it... we have a lot of junk-expensive cars in Brazil that really do not worth the price. -- Andre

I'm Brazilian too. André have explained that very well. The taxes are very high here and the big international car makers make good profits selling crap cars at very expensive prices. And Brazilian consumers are still foolish and don't have sense about how expensive are our cars, computers, cell phones, gadgets... And the minimum wage here is R$ 380.00 (US$ 212.00) and the average salary is about R$ 1,000.00 (US$ 558.00). I think people are crazy here, instead the fact that who buy new cars have money enough.