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Post by WDB on Apr 8, 2021 18:10:40 GMT
Are you a vampire or something? Let me check: ✅ impeccably presented ✅ sexually irresistible ❌ prefers pizza without garlic bread Oh well, two out of three... I suppose that leaves ‘something’.
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Post by dixinormus on Apr 16, 2021 23:10:12 GMT
Unsurprisingly, Renegades are rare over here. Looks like they ceased importing them altogether in 2018. Not quite my cup of tea, and the handful of used ones for sale are priced around the same as the brand new Kia Stonic (my vfm benchmark).
If I ever (need to) replace my redundant A1 then at present the VW T-Cross would be on my shortlist.
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Post by bpg on Apr 16, 2021 23:39:58 GMT
If I ever (need to) replace my redundant A1 then at present the VW T-Cross would be on my shortlist. I could relieve you of 20 or 30 grand if you don't have need of something but feel you have cash burning a hole in your pocket. I don't need the cash but always happy to help someone out. 😁
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Post by dixinormus on Apr 16, 2021 23:55:16 GMT
Au contraire, bpg; much as I like cars there is no way I am spending money on a new one that I won’t use..!
And if I did, ex-demo T-Crosses go for about 15 grand £ in these parts!
Feels odd. Like voluntarily becoming a vegetarian but then drooling over the steak in the butcher’s window regardless 😂
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Post by bpg on Apr 17, 2021 0:01:59 GMT
Is that Chinese built? How do VW get T-Cross models to ANZ cheaper than from Wolfsburg to Cologne?
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Post by dixinormus on Apr 17, 2021 0:29:29 GMT
Different specs for different markets? Different pricing strategy for different countries too I guess. VW have been steadily increasing their sales over here for the past few years - guess sharp pricing helps.
The £15k ex-demos are all 1.0 turbo DSGs...
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Post by Humph on Apr 21, 2021 12:02:58 GMT
Took the Jeep for a longer business related run today. Just to see how it was really. Not too far, a short 100 mile round trip.
Anyway, it was very comfortable, nippy enough too, 44mpg which felt OK for a petrol. You forget how smooth petrols are. Well, by comparison to four cylinder diesels anyway.
Hmmm
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Post by Alanović on Apr 21, 2021 12:07:46 GMT
So you're going to have 3 Orangeades on the driveway soon? Italian Job colours?
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Post by Humph on Apr 21, 2021 12:13:03 GMT
Funnily enough, and I didn't previously know this, the guy I went to have a meeting with this morning has one. His is the 2.0 diesel 4x4 but he does use it for towing a trailer. He's had his since 2016 and says he probably ought to be thinking about changing it, but encouragingly enough, he was saying that it has been no trouble and he's really enjoyed it, so he's in a bit of a dilemma as to what to do. Stick or twist decision again.
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Post by WDB on Apr 21, 2021 13:37:31 GMT
First question should always be, “What do I need that what I have doesn’t give me?” So a five-year-old car that still runs well and still has enough space is probably good for another five, certainly three. This may be overtaken by increasing restrictions on diesel — in the news again today — but probably not much else.
Humph, Norm and others will be familiar with the term ‘compelling event’, the change in circumstances that requires a buyer to make a decision. Without that, sales people have to rely on whims, caprices and outright follies — none of which looks good in a sales forecast. A car that’s too old to be reliable, or too small to be useful, constitutes a compelling event, but not much else does. (I’ll leave it to others to judge how compelling the removal of congestion charge exemption from our i3 really is, but wife-pleasing has its compelling side too.)
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Post by Humph on Apr 21, 2021 14:04:23 GMT
I suppose I'm just mulling over what to do for the next two to three years. My Merc is perfect for what I use it for. For now. I know that I can load it up, use it all day and all night if required and get out of it feeling fresh. Can't fault it, and I really like it.
But, if it started to be a burden in any way, would I really go to the expense of replacing it with a similar but updated model, at not inconsiderable expense, or would I just get something I hadn't previously realised I liked that would just about do, for £10-£15K to take me through until retirement.
Hence the mild pondering about a second ( probably diesel ) Renegade. The loadspace is theoretically much smaller, but the square shape of it just about swallows the kit I need with me, mainly because of the additional capacity in load height.
Inertia will almost certainly result in a status quo decision ( or lack of one ) but if it came to a distress purchase decision, at least I'm now open to a cheaper but useable alternative that I know I wouldn't feel too short changed by.
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Post by Humph on Apr 21, 2021 14:12:11 GMT
Come to think WDB, if you spent that eleven grand that's burning a hole in your pocket on a similar car to my wife's, you'd get a 2018 low mileage one with a manual box and a petrol engine. Ideal for teaching beestlings to drive. Tons of headroom and some engines are pretty low insurance groups.
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Post by WDB on Apr 21, 2021 15:52:44 GMT
Erm, thank you. I’ll pass. 🤠
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Post by Humph on Apr 23, 2021 7:18:21 GMT
Having mulled. I think I'm going to keep the Merc long term. I'm inclined to treat it taxi driver style. If I return to high annual mileage it'll only be for a year or three at most. If it needs a repair in that time, well, so be it. I now know I could use the Jeep in an emergency, and we also have the Toyota kicking about for now, if my son and my wife needed to share that for a day or two, so the risk of hanging on to what seems to be a reliable car seems low enough to live with.
The Merc is just too good at what I need it for, and was such a bargain it seems daft to not capitalise on that and run it while it's legal for the usage it's so good at.
Whole question of what the "fleet" looks like to be revisited if/when I retire or if/when my son moves out.
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Post by bpg on Apr 23, 2021 9:18:51 GMT
Hard to argue with that logic. You’ve had the car from new and know its full history. Not buying someone elses potential issue. Other than the odd tracking check and reset it should do what you need it for.
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