Not just me
the Canadians are on a war path over this, and a class action suite has been started , over the manufactures and pricing structures.
Either the price decreases.. or US prices will have to increase as to the lower US dollar value .
Canada's dollar is on par with the US dollar and will out value the US dollar, Aus Dollar has hit an eighty year high we are now at 90 cents to the US dollar.The last time Aus had 90 cents in the Dollar was Feb 1980 we devalued for the last time,and let it run on an open trading market.
This time around Canada and the Euro as well as Australian dollars will not devalue as we did this in the early seventies with a free fall dollar.
This can only mean the US dollar will continue to decline making it expensive to import anything from overseas but puts the US in the position to export at more competitive prices.
downside your fuel will increase as to supply and demand on OPEC pricing structures Singapore dictates the Diesel prices.
The joke with half price Sprinters! is just that, a Joke, but the discrepancy's of other countries paying the price with unfair trading practices is starting to bite and hit home. Even Canada has the situation of the Polly's ducking for cover on this issue, as it just will not go away, this time round.. ten grand difference between US makes, versus Canadian models does not add up? Canadian customers pay higher taxes, there are differences in how the vehicle qualifies for the CA market emissions extra corrosion cover, warranties etc, but this does not equate to huge imparity of the pricing structures.
Even Daimler AG has a problem explaining this one
to the European watch dogs, as to anti competitive trading on cross boarder transactions.
Sprinters are imported direct from Germany into Canada yet they are under Control of the US Chrysler division.
These should be sold and serviced as a Mercedes-Benz proper, via the Canadian Mercedes service outlets, the complicated set up of licensing of the Sprinters sales is where the problem lies, and the politics of both Government and manufactures controlling to fix pricing structures via the franchise out lets.
Richard
Adding to the comment of supply If a certain number of sprinters do not exceed a certain number I think it's 39 thousand then the European Courts can not sue Daimler for anti competitive trading or price fixing they are deemed limited export quantities after that Please explain so we can sue you, which they have done three times since 1995.
Where part of the problem with Sprinters being sold in the US was management, Chrysler US division has to spend the money to promote not Daimler AG
Dealership franchises also have to foot the bill for the license to sell the said products, train staff in sales as well as all levels through out it's management.. to be fully successfully.
In fairness when you look at the size of the USA and it's population the sales are very small in comparison to other brands and makes local or imported, It simply comes down to what the dealerships want to do with the Sprinters! sell them or leave them in the back lots ? If they intend to promote and sell the said Sprinters! Then a massive amount of money will have to be invested to make a mark for Commercial sales in the US , this starts with Cerberus and it's Chrysler division of management This is now stickily a US management learning curve .
like a transvestite! or better still.. take a walk on the wild side of 
!/#3 price difference 
