So what would be the price break down according to your post casio on a 240,000 M5?
Why I'm doing this at 2am I don't know.
For a start, in Germany (from what I can tell from the german site), the M5 goes for about 90,000 euros, which approximately 150,000AUD. So we'll start from that.
Transport here would be quite considerable. I ordered a 50gram T-Shirt from the states last week and that cost me 25$. So that'd have to factor into the price somewhat.
Then you have stamp duty, which on a 150k-200k car is going to be an extra 5-10k in most states.
Then again, the luxury car tax on top of that, so on a 250k car, you've have 200,000$ worth of value taxed 25c to the dollar. or 50k.
Then you have the GST. Which is another 10% on top of that.
Finally of course there is the supply and demand. I can't find the latest figures, but in 2000 BMW sold over 20,000 M5s in the states, and I'd think that figure would be even more now. Audi who as far as I know hold a greater market share than BMW here sold 7,227 cars AS A WHOLE. If BMW M5s sold in the number here as they did in the US
every third car would be a BMW M5. With less numbers selling, obviously dealers need to retail the cars more to make more profit out of them. A dealer in the US selling 100 M5s a year, can afford to mark up his cars a lot less than an Australian dealer selling 5.
Of course all the cost of testing for ADR compliance, and conversion to RHD and all that other stuff.