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Post by lygonos on Sept 15, 2017 15:29:21 GMT
Kizashi £12,499 - 3yrs and 27k miles later £8,000 to WBAC of all places
Forester XT £14,500 - 2 years and 20k miles later £12k trade-in on an already hugely discounted Shogun (tiresome as it had been written down to £8k and I had extra tax to pay!)
Merc B250e £20,700 (list £35k)
Run out models FTW!
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Post by Humph on Sept 15, 2017 16:33:04 GMT
I haven't won the lottery. But if I had, and could afford to retire. I'd definitely buy my own E class estate or just maybe a CLS shooting brake. I'd not want a sitty uppy car, and I'd not want a "look at me" supercar either, except maybe for high days and holidays. But I'm so pleased with my E that I'd be fairly certain I'd just have another one. Perhaps, and I wish I could whisper this bit, I'd go for the bigger Diesel engine than the more tax efficient one fitted to my company car, but otherwise I'd be happy enough to have the same again. It just does everything I want a car to do, really really well. Might be slightly tempted by the new, ever so mildly rufty tufty, 4x4 ish estate though.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2017 20:12:24 GMT
Ah ha! I knew I'd get to agree the V6 was the best engine....
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Post by WDB on Sept 16, 2017 21:21:58 GMT
Did that weeks ago. The 250 is grumbly, and driving my 220 fully-laden on the Autobahn convinced me it's short of the power that would make it properly relaxing.
The 350, in contrast, has power to spare. I was on familiar roads yesterday, and the couple of times I came up behind something slow - stereotypically so: a red Jazz, and a Toyota towing a caravan - a squeeze of the pedal had us past in no time. No histrionic kickdown, no need to flap a paddle, it just went. In fact, although I had a go at selecting gears manually, nothing I did seemed to improve on the computer's own selection, so before long I gave up trying.
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Post by Humph on Sept 16, 2017 21:43:20 GMT
That sounds great, hope you got a chance to open the roof? Improves the experience of a cross country blast...
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Post by Rob on Sept 16, 2017 22:02:48 GMT
If I had to transport a car full of passengers with luggage on the motorway, there is no way I'd currently have a 1.4 turbo petrol.... and not in the next car.
But I rarely go on vacation in the UK (once in ten years), rarely have more than 2 passengers. So a small efficient petrol turbo saves me money. Heck I was close to ordering a PHEV because most of my miles could be done on electric.
But if I was not in save the planet/money mode, I'd have a 3.0 turbo petrol/diesel of some sort and maybe with AWD. Maybe an Audi A5?
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Post by WDB on Sept 19, 2017 14:08:18 GMT
Not buying the pale blue CLS. Couldn't agree a price that reflected the downward value trend in big diesels. My suspicion is that the dealer paid too much and wants to recover that from me. It's a nice colour, with a great interior but no hard-to-find options, so there'll be others.
Echoes of the process when I bought the E220; I walked away and left it to take its chances with 'another buyer' at a different branch. The dealer called four weeks later to offer me the car for £1,000 than I'd previously offered for it. We'll see.
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Post by Humph on Sept 19, 2017 14:11:02 GMT
Shed load of money to spend on a car in a yucky colour anyway ! 🤢 |
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Post by WDB on Sept 19, 2017 20:55:47 GMT
Happy to let the me-toos snap up the black and silver ones. Would still leap at a red one, though.
Spoke to my BMW man today. Going to talk 5s with him in the morning.
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