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Post by Humph on Mar 18, 2021 14:23:04 GMT
Silver wheels can also date a car. Of course black wheels emphasise driving god rim markings mere mortals don't have   |
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Post by WDB on Mar 18, 2021 14:37:54 GMT
Assuming your purchase price is >GBP35k that's going to stuff a lot of manufacturers with pre-reg's to shift. The grant is (or was) only on new cars. Pre-registered cars either will have received it already (claimed by the dealer if that’s allowed) or will not qualify for it. I’ve already let the dealer know this causes us a problem. Now we get to find out how keen he is to sell us one this quarter. |
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Post by bpg on Mar 18, 2021 15:49:19 GMT
I imagine a lot of emergency sales staff meetings were called after that little gem was dropped.
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Post by WDB on Mar 18, 2021 16:06:08 GMT
Let’s hope something helpful comes out of the one in Maidenhead.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2021 16:23:02 GMT
Have you tried playing them off against the bigger boys in Reading?
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Post by WDB on Mar 18, 2021 16:29:08 GMT
Not yet.
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Post by WDB on Mar 20, 2021 13:03:22 GMT
Well, I have some revised numbers. So far, of the £3,000 hit to the deal, I get to bear all but £348. I've said no, thank you. As I have a viable walk-away option, I can afford to test how keen they are to do a deal this month. There are two more quarter-ends to go through before the final payment is due, so there'll be a chance to try again.
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Post by WDB on Mar 30, 2021 12:37:58 GMT
Dealer called yesterday. It’s not going to happen this quarter but he’s hopeful (well, he would be) of something turning up in April. In the meantime, I have 36 hours of i3S playtime to look forward to this weekend.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2021 12:58:32 GMT
Yes but you have to stay local still, right?
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Post by WDB on Mar 30, 2021 13:15:22 GMT
Yes. Fully intending to.
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Post by dixinormus on Mar 30, 2021 18:56:13 GMT
Can’t go too far eh, what’s their range?! 🤣
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Post by WDB on Mar 30, 2021 20:00:01 GMT
Ho ho. It can go three times around a circle 15km in radius. (And take in a bit of M40 in the process, as motorway stability - not our i3's strongest suit - is one of the things I want to try out.)
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Post by EspadaIII on Mar 31, 2021 18:00:16 GMT
Just driven down from Manchester to London (on business) and was followed by two i3s. They kept up a reasonable speed as I was maintaining 'good progress'.
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Post by bpg on Apr 1, 2021 2:21:14 GMT
Well, I have some revised numbers. So far, of the £3,000 hit to the deal, I get to bear all but £348. I've said no, thank you. As I have a viable walk-away option, I can afford to test how keen they are to do a deal this month. There are two more quarter-ends to go through before the final payment is due, so there'll be a chance to try again. BMW are cutting the price of the i3 in response, could be what the dealer was hinting at: www.autoexpress.co.uk/bmw/i3/354617/bmw-i3-price-slashed-response-new-plug-car-grant |
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Post by dixinormus on Apr 1, 2021 2:36:18 GMT
Not the first manufacturer to realign their prices since the subsidy was reduced. Call me cynical, but this infers that their prices were inflated before, to capitalise on the subsidies available?
Bit like scrappage - give everyone a thousand quid and prices rose commensurately, or rather the usual discounts disappeared.
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