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We have 25% VAT!!
It's disappointing to hear the Skoda equivalent to the ID.Polo is so expensive. I had hoped it would start $5k below that price.
That last part about saying the starting price and then showing a way more expensive model, sounds like it could be fined as illegally misleading marketing.
Here they always make such things very clear in reviews, and recently we have had influencers that had to pay pretty hefty fines for illegal marketing.
If they can do it to influencers, they can do it to reviewers too.
I had a similar situation with a popular site where some used cars were stated to have a Trailer hitch but hadn't.
I wrote to a couple of dealers and stated they were legally obligated to meet their advertising, and sell me the car with trailer hitch at no extra cost.
It was kind of hilarious the polite answers I got back, turned out it was the site that added it because of a bug.
If what you write is true, I think it's actually illegal by EU standards of consumer protection against misleading advertising.