The 45k golf R

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Wills2

22,669 posts

174 months

Friday 21st September 2018
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mcg_ said:
Scootersp said:
Thornaby said:
How is an 8 year old Porsche comparable to an 18reg Golf?
It is comparable in cost, therefore is an option for someone with this specific amount of money available?
Not comparable in maintenance costs though is it?
Well to be fair it's actually 11k cheaper than the 45k Golf as it's priced at 34k and the 997 isn't that expensive to run either.



MitchT

15,788 posts

208 months

Friday 21st September 2018
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Dermot O'Logical said:
Bramley.

'Nuff said.
I can recall as far back as my teens (late '80s) noticing how much more the cars being sold by Bramley were than other dealers' vehicles when I was perusing the classifieds in Autocar.

mcg_

1,445 posts

91 months

Friday 21st September 2018
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Wills2 said:
mcg_ said:
Scootersp said:
Thornaby said:
How is an 8 year old Porsche comparable to an 18reg Golf?
It is comparable in cost, therefore is an option for someone with this specific amount of money available?
Not comparable in maintenance costs though is it?
Well to be fair it's actually 11k cheaper than the 45k Golf as it's priced at 34k and the 997 isn't that expensive to run either.
ok heres another 8 year old one

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...



This is a waste of time argument. It's quite obvious that maintaining a new golf r is cheaper than an 8 year old 911, I'm sure you'll agree.

ericmcn

1,999 posts

96 months

Friday 21st September 2018
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Wills2 said:
Well to be fair it's actually 11k cheaper than the 45k Golf as it's priced at 34k and the 997 isn't that expensive to run either.
you could probably buy 2 x Maseratti quattroporte for that price - keep one as a back up for when either go tits up. Thats the seating issue sorted plus you get a fantastic V8 Ferrari engine thrown in for good measure. You may even recover some costs when you shift them on again and have some cash left over for the petrol outlay.

More exciting than owning a Golf, no?

here is an 07 with low milage for about 15k, ample money left over for some fuel and for when it goes tits up

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

Wills2

22,669 posts

174 months

Friday 21st September 2018
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ericmcn said:
you could probably buy 2 x Maseratti quattroporte for that price - keep one as a back up for when either go tits up. Thats the seating issue sorted plus you get a fantastic V8 Ferrari engine thrown in for good measure. You may even recover some costs when you shift them on again and have some cash left over for the petrol outlay.

More exciting than owning a Golf, no?

here is an 07 with low milage for about 15k, ample money left over for some fuel and for when it goes tits up

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...
Not if you don't want a quattroporte, what part of other people want different things to you don't you understand? It's really not that hard.

How many people want to buy two cars one to run and the other to break for spares? Seriously?

Odd really odd.

Wills2

22,669 posts

174 months

Saturday 22nd September 2018
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mcg_ said:
Wills2 said:
mcg_ said:
Scootersp said:
Thornaby said:
How is an 8 year old Porsche comparable to an 18reg Golf?
It is comparable in cost, therefore is an option for someone with this specific amount of money available?
Not comparable in maintenance costs though is it?
Well to be fair it's actually 11k cheaper than the 45k Golf as it's priced at 34k and the 997 isn't that expensive to run either.
ok heres another 8 year old one

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...



This is a waste of time argument. It's quite obvious that maintaining a new golf r is cheaper than an 8 year old 911, I'm sure you'll agree.
There is no argument the Porsche is irrelevant to the sale of the golf to person who will buy it.

It's just another case of PH posters that cant get their around others preferences.

Francis85

176 posts

67 months

Saturday 22nd September 2018
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You could have like 20 cars far way cooler & better than this overpriced girly fantasy.

Edited by Francis85 on Saturday 22 September 00:14

mcg_

1,445 posts

91 months

Saturday 22nd September 2018
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Why not even buy a boat

mcg_

1,445 posts

91 months

Saturday 22nd September 2018
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Wow Just had a look at that quattroporte posted above, that really is a nice car for the money

Baldchap

7,510 posts

91 months

Saturday 22nd September 2018
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Francis85 said:
You could have like 20 cars far way cooler & better than this overpriced girly fantasy.

Edited by Francis85 on Saturday 22 September 00:14
Perhaps the people that buy them already do.

DukeDickson

4,721 posts

212 months

Saturday 22nd September 2018
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Francis85 said:
You could have like 20 cars far way cooler & better than this overpriced girly fantasy.

Edited by Francis85 on Saturday 22 September 00:14
When in the memory of the world has an ostensibly riskily priced quick hatch ever been a girly fantasy? Tea leaf fantasy maybe & car park Sennas everywhere more likely.

I can only assume your knowledge is so much better than the average Joe, based on your obvious detailed ownership history of obviously superior cars over an extended period with a rich history of contribution here.

As it happens, I wouldn't spend that kind of cash on a Golf R either, or indeed a decent amount less, but some would, either based on individual desire or sufficient funds to decide that it is what suits their needs.

Even without knowing what your 'like' 20 more exciting & cooler cars are, I'm reasonably sure that as a sort of quick & sort of exciting, but not obvious car that as a daily driver is a good option, your equivalent or alternatives would be pretty thin, or the usual ignoring X, Y and Z.

Sa Calobra

37,011 posts

210 months

Saturday 22nd September 2018
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cheesesliceking said:
What kind of halfwit would pay 45k for a VW??
Drugs money

selym

9,539 posts

170 months

Saturday 22nd September 2018
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Sa Calobra said:
cheesesliceking said:
What kind of halfwit would pay 45k for a VW??
Drugs money
Yeah, PCP.

BenjiS

3,707 posts

90 months

Saturday 22nd September 2018
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Whilst this example is obviously chancing it due to the spec, people are completely forgetting, as always, inflation, when they make their ‘a Golf is never a 40k car’ comments.

Last time I bought a Golf was a GTI in 2002. It was £16000 which according to the Bank Of England inflation calculator is around £24000 now.

At the same time, an R32 listed at £23000. This is now £36000. So stick a few options on, and easily 40k. Given that an R lists at around 32k, in real terms Golfs have actually got cheaper in the last 20 years...

Baked_bean

1,905 posts

191 months

Saturday 22nd September 2018
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I work for a VW and customers do occasionally spec Golf R’s to ~£50k and this is usually people who want something capable/fast & well specified but not flashy for client meetings etc.

I have to admit that even with that specification the linked Golf sounds abit high on the pricing side.

morgrp

4,128 posts

197 months

Saturday 22nd September 2018
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It'll be nicked and used in an armed robbery within a week or so of buying it so personally I wouldn't bother

Herman Toothrot

6,702 posts

197 months

Saturday 22nd September 2018
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Hackney said:
.to not turn up at a customer meeting looking like someone rich enough to own a Porsche.....
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Brilliant instead you look want to look like some one who buys a Golf R, as accurately described above “a scrote magnet’.

ToothbrushMan

1,770 posts

124 months

Saturday 22nd September 2018
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BenjiS said:
Whilst this example is obviously chancing it due to the spec, people are completely forgetting, as always, inflation, when they make their ‘a Golf is never a 40k car’ comments.

Last time I bought a Golf was a GTI in 2002. It was £16000 which according to the Bank Of England inflation calculator is around £24000 now.

At the same time, an R32 listed at £23000. This is now £36000. So stick a few options on, and easily 40k. Given that an R lists at around 32k, in real terms Golfs have actually got cheaper in the last 20 years...
if only wages had kept pace......

TooMany2cvs

29,008 posts

125 months

Saturday 22nd September 2018
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ToothbrushMan said:
if only wages had kept pace......
UK average weekly earnings at the end of 2002, £343. Post-inflation equivalent is £540.
UK average weekly earnings now, £520. Not a big difference, is it?

https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/p...

mcg_

1,445 posts

91 months

Saturday 22nd September 2018
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Herman Toothrot said:
Hackney said:
.to not turn up at a customer meeting looking like someone rich enough to own a Porsche.....
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Brilliant instead you look want to look like some one who buys a Golf R, as accurately described above “a scrote magnet’.
Most people don't really have a clue what a golf r is though I don't think

The internet also sensationalises the theft of them (I hope!)