Canadian Car Buyers Complain Against Automakers
A Canadian couple filed a class-action lawsuit in U.S. District Court claiming they are being illegally discriminated against by car companies that turn down their business because they’re from Canada, Rhonda Chancey and Allan Coombs, a married couple from Newfoundland, say that General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, Honda and Toyota have rules forbidding U.S. dealers from selling their cars to people from Canada, where car prices are much higher.
They consider denying their right to buy cars in the USA to be the vivid form of discrimination based on the country of origin. Now there is no information concerning how many people can join the suit, but the Rhonda Chancey and Allan Coombs are sure that there are thousands of people who have been affected. Chancey and Coombs earlier filed a discrimination complaint with the Maine Human Rights Commission before filing the federal court lawsuit. The couple claims that more than 80 car dealerships in New England, including 61 in Maine, refused their business when the tried to buy a new car. They managed to get a new vehicle only when their relative from New Hampshire purchased it at a local dealership and then sold it to them. But even including all transfer sales taxes the price of the vehicle was lower than it would have been in Canada. Representatives of the companies mentioned above yet have no comment on the specifics of the complaint filed.
[Source: autonews24h.com]
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