2023 VW ID.4 will get Canadian pricing, plus new luxurious tax particulars

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Welcome to our round-up of the most important breaking tales on Driving.ca from this previous week. Get caught up and able to get on with the weekend, as a result of it’s arduous retaining tempo in a digital site visitors jam.

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Right here’s what you missed whilst you had been away.

VW costs the all-electric 2023 ID.4, together with new entry-level trim

There’s a brand new trim degree for the 2023 ID.4, Volkswagen confirmed this week, whereas additionally sharing Canadian pricing for the electrical automobile. The ID.4 will carry over its rear- and all-wheel-drive choices paired with an 82-kWh battery, but additionally add one other mannequin with rear-drive and a smaller 62-kWh battery. 

North of the forty ninth, this new smaller choice will begin at $43,995, which is $4,000 lower than the opposite rear-drive mannequin and $9,000 lower than the all-wheel mannequin, however a good bit greater than the 2022 ID.4 with the identical setup, which offered for $44,995. (Shocker: the money saved by making the automobiles in North America and never having to ship them from Europe is seemingly being utilized by VW and never handed alongside to the shopper.)

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Manufacturing of the 2023 ID.4 is about to start at Volkswagen’s manufacturing unit in Tennessee. 

Canada automobile luxurious tax may even cowl equipment and add-ons

New measures set to come back into impact this September and retroactively hit any purchases since January 1, 2022 will add slightly further for the Fed to the value of luxurious autos in Canada. The brand new automobile luxurious tax will apply to the import or buy of any automobile over $100,000, and even embody some after-purchase additions akin to stereo upgrades and aftermarket physique modifications made as much as a 12 months after buy.  

Customers can pay the lesser of 10 per cent of the overall automobile value or 20 per cent of the distinction between the fee and $100,000. So, on a $150,000 Mercedes-Benz, the federal government will take an additional $10,000, which is 20 per cent of $50,000 and fewer than the $15,000 different. Fortunate you. 

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Authorized battle involving Mississauga auto physique store accused of fraud continues 5 years later

In 2017, Aviva Insurance coverage Canada enacted ‘Challenge Bumper sting’ and, via the usage of secret cameras, caught a bunch of auto-body retailers doing shady enterprise. However not all the responsible events confronted penalties. Mississauga’s McLaren Collision has considerably efficiently drawn out its authorized battle with counter-action in opposition to Aviva, which initially sued McLaren Collision for $100,000 for the price of its undercover investigation; and $200,000 in punitive damages, insisting the store invoiced for work they didn’t do and even “intentionally broken” the staged automobile so it could require a whole bunch of {dollars} in repairs.

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The store’s declare that Aviva’s actions constituted a “legal enterprise” has been denied by a decide. Years later, a tribunal will now collect to determine whether or not to impose a one-year insurance-repair ban on McLaren Collision.

Watch: Russian stomach dancer falls from shifting automobile window

All of us have a number of songs that actually make us need to dance and sing, however the social contract that’s maturity dictates which you can’t bust a transfer any-old-where simply because ‘your jam’ comes on the radio. Breakdancing at funerals, for instance, is mostly frowned upon. So is stomach dancing out of the window of a automobile that’s travelling down a roadway.

However the memo didn’t attain one younger lady in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, in southern Russia, who, as per a video shared by the Every day Mail, by chance flipped backwards out of the open rear aspect window of an SUV she was hitching a journey in whereas attempting to ‘get low, get low,’ belly-dance model. 

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The 24-year-old driver recounts the incident: “I gave a elevate to a younger lady, and as I drove I put the music on too loud… I missed the second [she started dancing], so the younger lady fell out. In future, I promise to make use of seat belts and observe site visitors guidelines, and counsel others do the identical.” That, or don’t play such bangers. 

Avenue Outlaws star Ryan Fellows dies in crash

Driver, presenter, and commentator of Discovery+ TV Sequence Avenue Outlaws Ryan Fellows handed away final weekend when the gold Nissan 240Z he was driving flipped and caught hearth. Fellows was driving the automobile within the eighth of 9 sanctioned filmed races happening outdoors of Las Vegas, Nevada when the incident occurred. Emergency help couldn’t reply in time. 

TMZ shared a picture of the fiery wreckage, and you’ll discover the hyperlink within the unique protection right here, however be warned: it’s stunning. 

“The Avenue Outlaws household is heartbroken by the accident that led to the tragic dying of Ryan Fellows,” Avenue Outlaws stated in a Tweet. “We prolong our deepest sympathy to Ryan’s family members as they course of this sudden and devastating loss.”