New member..& £75k impulse buy of the best car in the world?
Discussion
nigelpugh7 said:
Well done to you on your purchase and welcome to the mad house!
Sounds like a good deals to me too.
I always try to buy my cars new as well, and negotiate the best discount I can get from the repos time dealer.
People (who think they are smart) always say oh yeah you could have saved another 10K by buying a nearly new one.
And yet when you do try to look for a 12 month old example they all,seem to be advertised for more than I just paid for the new discounted model,I just bought!
So enjoy it, and please do post pictures too, I bet it will be a cracking car!
I vary. Last one was 12 months old, one before that new. All down the the deal around and usually, the keenness of BMW FS to incentivise new car sales.Sounds like a good deals to me too.
I always try to buy my cars new as well, and negotiate the best discount I can get from the repos time dealer.
People (who think they are smart) always say oh yeah you could have saved another 10K by buying a nearly new one.
And yet when you do try to look for a 12 month old example they all,seem to be advertised for more than I just paid for the new discounted model,I just bought!
So enjoy it, and please do post pictures too, I bet it will be a cracking car!
6-12 months old examples of similar specs were £50-55k, 12-18 month old ones £46-52k.....all with double the APR and no material discount!
epom said:
Good stuff Sir, they are lovely 
You should have bought the 335d but thats for another day
Looked at the 335d, 435d and factored in the 435d Gran Coupe. All lovely, but all would have been no material amount cheaper (and more expensive like-for-like) and looked very low rent by comparison. You should have bought the 335d but thats for another day Plus 3-series don't float my boat. Been there, done that, etc.
holes!markmullen said:
Since when did people have to act like such bellends?
If the chap is happy with his purchase then good for him, why come over all clever telling him how much it'll depreciate or which alternative model he should have bought? What does it achieve?
OP, enjoy your new car.
After years of membership on PH I've come to learn that there is a nasty minority on here, sad individuals who probably hide in their little bedrooms until Mummy calls them down for their supper.If the chap is happy with his purchase then good for him, why come over all clever telling him how much it'll depreciate or which alternative model he should have bought? What does it achieve?
OP, enjoy your new car.
davyvee said:
Ares said:
Really? Strange. Are you Harry Enfield? "Richer than yaw...etc".
Discounts make me smile.
£21,800 ones (especially off nice cars) can make me hard.
Just seems a bit Everest windows. You know? "Normally 20 grand but today we have the chairman's special offer of 10 grand" type of thing.Discounts make me smile.
£21,800 ones (especially off nice cars) can make me hard.
Did you have to haggle or was that the window price?
Offer now finished in terms of BMW's contribution. But others available. See here: http://www.bmw.co.uk/en_GB/topics/owners/offers/cu...
6-series offer is on a soft-top this month: http://www.bmw.co.uk/en_GB/topics/owners/offers/6-...
cjb1 said:
markmullen said:
Since when did people have to act like such bellends?
If the chap is happy with his purchase then good for him, why come over all clever telling him how much it'll depreciate or which alternative model he should have bought? What does it achieve?
OP, enjoy your new car.
After years of membership on PH I've come to learn that there is a nasty minority on here, sad individuals who probably hide in their little bedrooms until Mummy calls them down for their supper.If the chap is happy with his purchase then good for him, why come over all clever telling him how much it'll depreciate or which alternative model he should have bought? What does it achieve?
OP, enjoy your new car.
Man-Hugs all round.
Is the depreciation on a 6 series that bad if the discount is 20k+ ??
It's all relative to me I suppose - car is marked up at 65k, you get it for 44k - you've already taken a vast part of the depreciation out via the incentives (yes I know the car's RRP is over inflated to start with).
End of the day hats off - that kind of money could have bought a hugely specced A6 Avant, which, nice as it is, isn't a 640d GC.
I think the days of people saying "haha you bought new haha you lose money haha I will get it cheap in a year" are long gone - dealer incentives now are so great on new models that the second hand ones cost the same or even more in some cases.
Example: Alfa Giulietta - get 5k off easily, taking a brand new 21k car down to 16k. Now go look at the almost-new models - they will be within that 16k range by a close margin - finance not as good, possibly engine/options not as good, already been driven by someone else. For me these days it's either buy brand new or get somethign 3 years old or more that has truly dumped its depreciation curve.
In my house we have a new mazda 2 because it was cheaper with incentives than used, and a 120d coupe that is a 2008 because it has done the vast vast bulk of its original cost and is specced to the moon and back.
OP, well done, 640d is a momentously nice motor, the discount is huge, and frankly, if you can afford it, why not? if you take home 3k a month after tax, why not have a decent car - it's not a 200k Mclaren after all.
It's all relative to me I suppose - car is marked up at 65k, you get it for 44k - you've already taken a vast part of the depreciation out via the incentives (yes I know the car's RRP is over inflated to start with).
End of the day hats off - that kind of money could have bought a hugely specced A6 Avant, which, nice as it is, isn't a 640d GC.
I think the days of people saying "haha you bought new haha you lose money haha I will get it cheap in a year" are long gone - dealer incentives now are so great on new models that the second hand ones cost the same or even more in some cases.
Example: Alfa Giulietta - get 5k off easily, taking a brand new 21k car down to 16k. Now go look at the almost-new models - they will be within that 16k range by a close margin - finance not as good, possibly engine/options not as good, already been driven by someone else. For me these days it's either buy brand new or get somethign 3 years old or more that has truly dumped its depreciation curve.
In my house we have a new mazda 2 because it was cheaper with incentives than used, and a 120d coupe that is a 2008 because it has done the vast vast bulk of its original cost and is specced to the moon and back.
OP, well done, 640d is a momentously nice motor, the discount is huge, and frankly, if you can afford it, why not? if you take home 3k a month after tax, why not have a decent car - it's not a 200k Mclaren after all.
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