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Well, bought new in March this year and I'd already clocked up 13k miles. A really great car and highly recomended. I've used it as my only car and not really struggled. Tyres still fresh and an average of 30.5 mpg. I guess I might drive sedately! My son is in the Army and it easily took all his kit on motorway runs up to Harrogate, or, down to Bovington. Shame his mates couldn't fit in also!
A slight disapointment when it came to the sale - nobody wanted to buy it. Three OPC actually refused to bid, apparantley they have a glut of ex manager/demo cars. Annoyingly one of those that didn't bid was the dealer that I bought it from eight months ago. Two others bid at three thousand pounds less than wewillbuyyourcar.com. This despite the car being in absolute showroom condition, not a mark. I was amazed how it avoided stone chips. One well known Independant also didn't want to bid because at that age they thought that the cars value is too volatile.
Reason for sale. I live down a farm track and at this time of the year the farmer visits daily to feed his cows - lots of mud and it was breaking my heart to see the thing get so dirty so quickly. I also have to get to the office every day and wasn't totally sure how they perform in snow. It can't be that good with the size of the tyres.
As said, an absolutley fabulous car that seemed to eat the miles effortlessly. My only two gripes; I don't like the way they change down a gear so readily on the motorway. The slightest squeeze on the peddle and it can be a bit over dramatic, not relaxing at all. Secondly the front boot mechanism. Pushing down so firmly with the palm of my hand on the bonnet just didn't seem right. Two very minor points though.
Changed for a MY12 RRS TDV6 HSE. Credit to the dealer he worked by far the hardest to get a better bid for mine and in the end I didn't feel quite as abused at the price it went for.
Cheers
A slight disapointment when it came to the sale - nobody wanted to buy it. Three OPC actually refused to bid, apparantley they have a glut of ex manager/demo cars. Annoyingly one of those that didn't bid was the dealer that I bought it from eight months ago. Two others bid at three thousand pounds less than wewillbuyyourcar.com. This despite the car being in absolute showroom condition, not a mark. I was amazed how it avoided stone chips. One well known Independant also didn't want to bid because at that age they thought that the cars value is too volatile.
Reason for sale. I live down a farm track and at this time of the year the farmer visits daily to feed his cows - lots of mud and it was breaking my heart to see the thing get so dirty so quickly. I also have to get to the office every day and wasn't totally sure how they perform in snow. It can't be that good with the size of the tyres.
As said, an absolutley fabulous car that seemed to eat the miles effortlessly. My only two gripes; I don't like the way they change down a gear so readily on the motorway. The slightest squeeze on the peddle and it can be a bit over dramatic, not relaxing at all. Secondly the front boot mechanism. Pushing down so firmly with the palm of my hand on the bonnet just didn't seem right. Two very minor points though.
Changed for a MY12 RRS TDV6 HSE. Credit to the dealer he worked by far the hardest to get a better bid for mine and in the end I didn't feel quite as abused at the price it went for.
Cheers
IPK said:
Changed for a MY12 RRS TDV6 HSE. Credit to the dealer he worked by far the hardest to get a better bid for mine and in the end I didn't feel quite as abused at the price it went for.
Cheers
All relative I'm afraid, do you know how much discount you can get on a new RRS ?Cheers
Therefore the LR dealer probably has your car stood at less than what was already offered by the OPC's
Peely said:
All relative I'm afraid, do you know how much discount you can get on a new RRS ?
Therefore the LR dealer probably has your car stood at less than what was already offered by the OPC's
I left the Cayman out of the negotiations until the end. The price offered for it came after any maximum discounts had been applied to the Range Rover. I wasn't complaining about the offers, or lack of offers. I was just suprised that hardly anybody wanted it! A derisory offer would have been better than no offer at all.Therefore the LR dealer probably has your car stood at less than what was already offered by the OPC's
Spy said:
Well glad to hear it ended well.
Out of interest, how are you finding the TDV6 RRS in terms of performance and were you not tempted by the TDV8 ?
Only done a hundred miles! It's very smooth. I set myself a limit with the TDV6. As you would imagine it was a far old loss on the Cayman and so I wouldn't have wanted to spend anymore. The TDV8 is supposed to be a fair beast but not sure if the handling would be up to the extra power? I didn't mean to buy the RR, I actually went to look at a Defender for winter use with the intention of keeping the Cayman. It was then that I got thinking about the rapid rate of mileage piling up and the things mentioned before. I just figured the RR was the best option for me at this particular time.Out of interest, how are you finding the TDV6 RRS in terms of performance and were you not tempted by the TDV8 ?
IPK said:
Three OPC actually refused to bid, apparently they have a glut of ex manager/demo cars.
From what I have seen - I probably would never touch an ex-manager/demo car as it is likely to have been thrashed at Silverstone. At least that is what I was told would be the fate of the car that I thrashed at Silverstone.... :-)Gassing Station | Porsche General | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff