Nissan launches online pricing calculator

By Matt Brogan | August 20th, 2009

Nissan has today launched an online pricing calculator that enables customers within Australia to determine the purchase cost of a vehicle in their locality.

With the introduction of regulations for published pricing in the motor industry, local product pricing has become harder to define, so with that in mind, Nissan created the online tool to help customers closer determine a driveaway price.

“Nissan continues to be innovative when is comes to customer relationships and this latest initiative creates another level of convenience.” said Andrew Holbrook, Nissan Marketing Manager of SUV’s and Commercial Vehicles.

The Nissan Pricing Calculator has been designed to take into consideration all of the various statutory charges around Australia. It provides customers an estimated driveaway price for their vehicle of choice.

The calculator will work out an average estimate for each individual State or Territory based on the following components:

RRP or for Business reg “ABN” pricing for Navara and Patrol C/C
Dealer Delivery
Statutory Charges and whether business or private registration including LCT and any other stated variable charges.
CTP is based on an average of high and low risk insurance areas and Private/Business rates for individual States and Territories.

The Calculator is very easy to read and gives customers the choice to select their model and whether they want standard, metallic or premium paint.

The customer also nominates whether they intend to register the vehicle in a business or private name which, determine what statutory charges are applicable to them.

The calculator is now available on Nissan’s website which can be accessed by clicking here.

Gilly

Just used it and it is simple and brilliant!
The other manufacturers have been caught sleeping with no solution other than calling the dealers!
Brett

If Nissan can do it why can’t the other manufacturers?
Jake02

I was using it last night – it’s pretty handy. Skoda Aus had their on-road prices on the website from the beginning of this new law, as did Mazda Aus so Nissan isn’t the first.

And stupid Ford Aus still have their Configurator up but it can’t be accessed because of the lack of pricing. Fix it or get it bloody well off!
thenameless

Mazda’s one is useless unless you know what your states statutory charges are.
Paulo

Used it this morning … Nice!

But I still don’t know how much I SHOULD pay for the 2WD Dualis CVT I’ve got my eye on … Website quotes more than 31k for the base model, which is more than I hoped and expected!
milobob

Kudos to nissan!
http://Caradvice.com.au Baddass

Mmm, getting the Dualis just became a whole lot easier.
NacaYoda

Nice tool. Inability to change between vehicles is a shame, but it isn’t too hard to click around on a broadband connection. I feel sorry for the dialups.

Is a Diesel X-TRAIL (auto) really worth $43,500+?
I’ll forego the slight size advantage, ditch 4wd and settle happily for the Diesel Hyundai i30CW (auto) and pocket close to $18,000 thank you very much!!

Maybe 2nd hand they make economic sense to someone…
DipStiK

The online prices are the maximum the dealer can charge not including any options you may want. I would go in to dealers and offer $2000-$4500 less than that price. On 08 units for some manufacturers you can even try $10,000 less.
Alex

Well that’s good. I’m sick of every car website not having pricing.
Alex

Why do they even bother listing prices before on road costs are included? You have to pay them, so surely it should be part of the listed price? That’s what it’s like in the UK and it’s much better that way. I just don’t see the point in advertising a car as $19,990 when there’s still the compulsory other $3,000 still to pay.
observer

Why has it taken so long to legislate this simple and transparent “driveaway prices”.

When I was in Italy in 1987 I remember popping into an Alfa Romeo dealer just to have a quick look at the then Alfa 164.

They were quoting driveaway prices back then and it wasnt voluntary from brand to brand but legislated as “Key In Hand” prices on any advertised vehicle, other-wise known as “Driveaway prices” here. Yep that was 22 years ago!
Flying High

This should be mandatory in Australia. Good on Nissan for having the conjoles to do it and not hide the blatantly obvious ‘extra’ cost. Amazing eye opener for even some people who frequent this site and seem to have complete blind ignorance of hte difference twixt the list price as compared to on road price.

The great thing about this feature from Nissan is you know if you actually paid that price for the car, you were done. Well and truly.
DG

Audi says contact dealer for pricing! ahhh they used to have the RRP around 3-6 months ago, who knows where its gone
Alex

DG, most brands are telling you to contact a dealer. I think it’s to do with the whole stupid LCT thing. BMW took down their whole configurator which is pretty annoying.
Jon Leong

I don’t think its just the dealers and the manufactures fault for the confusion in pricing. Some of it has to come down to the State Governments and Commonwealth Government. I really hate the Governments just passing legislation to regulate this and that without thinking about the consequence.
Yes, Clear pricing is good, I see no problem with Local car dealers advertising a “key-in-hand price” @ their own website or News Paper ads. But for manufactures, i do see it can be hard to display correct pricing. Especially European brand who has massive model range and options list where GST, LCT, Stempduty, needs to be calculated on top of them. (BMW 3 series has 4 body shapes, 7 engines to chose, 3 Preset equipment grades, 8 Different tax rates to calculate)
Government on the other hand just sits there and wait for your money and don’t care if their legislation is crap. (LCT!!!) Remember when Swanny tries to increase LCT, how Sh!t every thing went?? Every one is confuse and miserable.

I Hates it when they think we should try and work it out (encourage manufacture to have national pricing on cars) and they on the other hand (created the problem of different stempduty) just sit there and do nothing.
Why dont it be done the other way around where they nationalise stempduty rates and let the ATO collect it?? They already had GST + LCT to collect when a car is sold. Then a commonwealth gives those money to the particular states. Then no one will have excuse not to display “key-in-Hand” price.
Utterly rubbish Government.
AAA

Waste of time…. the actual price for a Nissan is about $3000+ less than the RRP ~
Yianni

I can’t believe how manufacturers were cought sleeping. They knew the regulations would be changing and did nothing about it.

It’s been months now and most of them still have no prices online. This is plain stupid and a lot of people wont bother researching a car to simply get a price and will just move on to the next car that has a lot more detail online including pricing.

They all better hurry up and offer online pricing again as its sure to hurt them.
Boggy

I have been in the motor industry for around 15 years and doing a quick calculation in NSW alone there are approximately 2025 different combinations of “on road $ amounts” due to the variances in registration charges,ctp greenslip charges,mcis levy charges and plate fee charges.This creates an “on road price” mine field for potential misquotations for the manufacturers and the retailers.This makes it even more confusing now to the consumer as the advertised ” drive away price” will not be applicable to each individual purchaser therefore it is worse than before because it is even more misleading.Thank for making it easier for everybody federal government.. Not !!
Oh and did i forget to mention members of the public and certain goverment departments that are exempt of some of these charges ie pensioners and ex pats… it gets worse
Mike

I have a Nissan Navara D40 and the clutch has gone twice with less than 48000KM. The product is rubbish and I would never buy a Nissan agian.