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Message: <blockquote data-quote="valkryie" data-source="post: 356134" data-attributes="member: 2023">Anyhow BMW is a premium brand car and is considered expensive even in USA where it is selling somewhere in the region of USD 30k and higher. To put it into perspective, a honda civic is about USD 12k or so. With or without taxation there would still be a gap between the premium car price and 'normal' car price. In a rational world of ecnomics, one would ask if I need to shelf out more than double the price to get a BMW when i get a good quality honda civic for RM 12K x 3.5 = RM 42,000 if there was no taxation. But people who buy bmw are not always rational.  So the point is that either way, BMWs are premium and more expensive cars. Therefore i have higher expectation on their performance, safety, etc over japanese cars because with or without taxation, i will have to pay more than double the honda civic for the BMW.</blockquote>