Do your US prices include sales taxes ? If you took the French & UK prices off the configurator then they will include VAT (value added tax) of about 21%.

Within Europe prices will vary pretty significantly as well. The UK just gets ripped off without any clear explanation (excl taxes UK is one of the most expensive countries to buy a car, Ireland is bad as well)

In Holland on top of the VAT of 21% the goverment also adds a 25% BPM tax (no idea what it means but it certainly helps contain the dutch budget deficit).

Also I presume you've used a recent USD/Euro exchange rate. As the bottom seems to have fallen out of the dollar this also gives a bit of a skewed comparison.

Did quick comparison between base price for my 3.0d between Belgium and Holland and the dutch are 36% more expensive (eg USD 29.000)