to own a brand new A8L 4.2 (loaded).
About $250,000 for W12.
There.

I will taking delivery next month of '07 w-12. negotiated deal at 7.3% below MSRP out the door at $125,000(US) tax tag & title.

It's nothing unusual. Lexus LS430 is about $135,000, A6 4.2 is about $100,000 to $130,000 over in Korea. MB E350 go for about $100,000. Thank god I'm in US.

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Price before tax (all cars are loaded with options)
MB S500 (550 here) - $218,376
E350 4Matic - $110,879
Porsche Boxster - $97,666
Cadillac CTS V6 - $58,038
Honda Accord V6 - $41,117
and etc....

My mother just bought a pre owned 2004 MB E320 4matic (10000 miles on) for yes you guessed it, $74,000 (in Korea).

Repeat. That piece of financial/consulting advice will cost you 12% off the top gross number.

so that car would be 45% more expensive in Holland..
For example:

A8L 6.0 full options = E260,000 = $335,000

Sometimes I believe that it is not fair...

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Depreciation is a suxor for the people who actually buy Audis.

somewhere around $120,000 before tax.

If you think Audi depreciation is bad, schnellmb (which it most definitely is, at least in North America. For the most part, depreciation for Audi's is much better overseas based on what I have read on here), you haven't seen anything until you have seen Jaguar and Land Rover (save for the possible exception of the Defender 90) depreciation anywhere outside of the United Kingdom (which makes Audi depreciation, as bad as as it is-really bad-again, primarily in North America, look great by comparison). Don't ever lease or own a Jaguar or Land Rover, schnellmb. The bad or awful expericnces you have had with Audi will most likely be substantially worse with Jaguar and Land Rover.

I am concerned about Audi. I've lost too much $$$ on them--so drawling a parallel with other brands and offshore markets really doesn't jog too well when it's your U.S. dollars.

Norway has a progressive tax rate according to engine displacement and output as well as car total weight. A small car with a weak engine will come out rather cheap, but the same car with a bigger engine will be much more expensive. As a result, we get lots of decent cars with much equipment but tiny engines.

Denmark has a flat tax rate according to the price the importer pays the factory.

Looking at which engines the Mercedes SLK is delivered with illustrates the difference.

In Denmark the SLK200 is very expensive as Mercedes charges a lot for it. Getting a bigger engine like the 350 doesn't add much (30%) to the price as Mercedes doesn't charge much extra for the bigger engines. The SLK is uncommon, but those who are sold often have big engines.

In Norway the SLK200 is relatively cheap. Light car, small engine, not much tax. Getting a bigger engine triggers a lot of extra displacement/output tax, so the 350 is 70% over the 200. The SLK is common here, but just 1 out of 30 has more than the 200 engine.