chicken george wrote:

Disco sport looms , had a revisit of the dealers yesterday showroom car looked well. not sure if the LUX is worth the extra pennies or not.

I'm 'warming' to the DS and was going to pop over 't dealer on Sat to have a look at their stock.
But decided that all the extra cash involved wasn't worth me changing....... so I put my 'stash' away and nailed the floorboards back down.
And I was only looking for the SE Tech, which has all the bits I need.

 FL2 now gone and have a couple of items left for sale:-

Brodit active iPhone holder + Brodit dash clip,
Bluetooth Music Streaming Module.

The Skodia Kodiaq looks a bargain.

i probably just but one on the bubble finance thingy, but adjusted to leave as small a final as I can, once you take that plunge you can choose any spec you like it barely alters the monthlies, but its buy now pay later At work
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Any 40K car is going to take a massive hit on residuals down the line from April 2017.

That said anyone buying outright should be able to get a fair wedge off a 40K car that is in a design that has been around for a while. CARWOW have been offering some Mercs at 25% off list for several months.

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/syst...dustry.pdf FL2 MY10 TD4 GS traded in at 2 years
FL2 MY13 TD4 GS Current

I get a decent NFU discount on new car plus dealer finance incentive, makes a new one more tempting than the over prices young used ones on the lot At work
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ronp wrote:

But decided that all the extra cash involved wasn't worth me changing.......

My reasoning behind this is:
The DS SE Techs I was looking at are priced around 30k, that's with around 10 - 12k on the clock.
Now Ive got a perfectly good Dec 2010 [MY11] that's exactly 6 years old.
It's a GS but with upgrades- heated & electric leather seats/interior, Sat Nav, Bluetooth phone integration, tints, 20" Evoque alloys and loaded with lots of other LR oem bits.
Owned it for just over 2 years and bought it with just 10.5k on the clock, it's now got only 45k.
Hasn't cost me a penny in repairs [apart from usual service, plus wipers & tyres]
Now if I traded it in against a DS I'd no doubt be very lucky to get £10k for it.
That would leave me to pay and addittional £20k ....... but for what extra benefit is that 20k worth?
In a few months time that 'showroom shiney' car would be sitting down my drive caked in mud & road grime, just like every other and be 'just another car' .... but with 20k to pay out over the years.
Doesn't add up for me.  FL2 now gone and have a couple of items left for sale:-

Brodit active iPhone holder + Brodit dash clip,
Bluetooth Music Streaming Module.

You have just summed up what car owning is all about - trying to fill an Olympic sized swimming pool with £20 notes in a gale - but sometimes it's just nice to own nice things irrespective of logic and economics.  MY 09 GS manual in Lago Grey, Wood Co arm rest and side bumper strips - now sold.

MY 15 SD4 SE Auto Orkney Grey with colour coded Bumper Door Mouldings

chicken george wrote:

I get a decent NFU discount

Do two allotments qualify.  FL2 MY10 TD4 GS traded in at 2 years
FL2 MY13 TD4 GS Current

Fully agreed Ronp and with that flag and your location it goes without saying.  FL2 MY10 TD4 GS traded in at 2 years
FL2 MY13 TD4 GS Current

Yorky Bob wrote:

chicken george wrote:

I get a decent NFU discount

Do two allotments qualify.

If nobody bought new cars there wouldn't be any secondhand ones  Do it now ! Your a long time dead !!

Land Rover Military Sales offer discounts for export and UK use but only to serving service people.

NFU gives 5% manufacturer discount and the promise of atleast 5% dealers discount, mind you I pay £800 p.a to be an NFU member although it is more than just car discounts At work
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On the builder the price for the discover sport is now from £28,995. I didn't realised it now is technically LR's most affordable model. MY14 Kahn Converted Dynamic - Fuji White Ebony/Pimento Interior
MY15 Xenon Headlight Conversion

MY17 RRS SVR - Estoril Blue Cirrus/Ebony 🪣💺’s

Happy Land Rover Day Nut.

I think the word is un-affordable compared to what these used to cost. Mine was not the basic model and with a few extras was well still short of 30K. We managed to avoid things like boomerang / balloon payments and the like so I have no idea about the following.

Say you had a average priced model on a factory funded pay off the the balance in 3 years time funding from 2007 and changed it as you went along and had now moved now to a DS I wonder how that settlement figure has risen ? I suspect it could tell us an awful lot about the true affordability of these motors now as most people I come across have seen their spending power / investment returns flounder dramatically over the same period.

I had better go and entertain the mother in law Ba humbug. FL2 MY10 TD4 GS traded in at 2 years
FL2 MY13 TD4 GS Current