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The $25k car is going extinct?

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319 points pseudolus | 1 comments | 29 Jun 25 15:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source
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1970-01-01 ◴[30 Jun 25 12:10 UTC] No.44422276[source]▶
Completely unmentioned: Chinese EVs are $10k worldwide except USA.

https://gmauthority.com/blog/2024/08/2025-byd-seagull-ev-sta...

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diggan ◴[30 Jun 25 12:18 UTC] No.44422343[source]▶
The Seagull (aka "Dolphin Surf" in other countries) seems to cost 18560 GBP in the UK, or 11.780€ in Spain. Haven't checked out other countries, but clearly "Chinese EVs (BYD Seagull/Dolphin Surf/Dolphin Mini) are $10k worldwide except USA" isn't 100% correct.

Seems fine to leave something like that unmentioned, as a quick check reveals it not to be true at all.

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contrarian1234 ◴[30 Jun 25 12:20 UTC] No.44422366[source]▶
but I'm guessing those are post tax prices .. While in the US prices are pre-tax

So if you saw the pretax figures it'd probably be true

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diggan ◴[30 Jun 25 12:21 UTC] No.44422379[source]▶
> So if you saw the pretax figures it'd probably be true

But why would I look at the pretax figures? Who would look at that, unless you're doing a business purchase? It basically has no meaning for the average person since they'll never buy anything without the taxes anyways.

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mminer237 ◴[30 Jun 25 13:08 UTC] No.44422831[source]▶
Because sales tax in the US varies wildly by locality: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Sales_ta...

Some places that is the price of the car.

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1. dylan604 ◴[30 Jun 25 13:34 UTC] No.44423102[source]▶
I remember as a kid my parents making the decision on where to buy big ticket purchases based on tax rates. The local big city had a higher sales tax rate that the smaller big city further from us. I don't know when that no longer was true as the tax rate seems to be flat across the state now.