Best Lease Car Deals Available? (Vol 4)
Discussion
w8pmc said:
Actus Reus said:
The grey photographed above is the best colour for the estate IMHO - they look a bit s
t in white.
t in white.
Thanks
It's a bloody outrage how much they charge for other colours though. £30pcm is a lot of wedge just for a colour of a car that you'll give back in two years.
a311 said:
Thanks, I wish I'd have been home to look at the configuration tool earlier, the S- line Avant was about 1.5K more on the best deal I could find. I may add the optional extra of privacy glass or a blind in the back as it's handy with the little one on the odd occasion we get a bright sunny day....
The broker had a allocation of 60 and I was #57 if anyone is interested.
Total blind buy as per previous lease car deals I've jumped on, not sat in or driven one....
The Jags are great, I'm sure you won't be disappointed. It might not have as many options when you compare r sport to s line but what you don't get in options, you get back with a better engine, better handling and it's also a very nice looking car.The broker had a allocation of 60 and I was #57 if anyone is interested.
Total blind buy as per previous lease car deals I've jumped on, not sat in or driven one....
My quote on the a6 avant s line came in at £6.5k all in, Inc fees, for 5k miles. About £1k more than the a6 saloon se but £1k for avant and s line upgrades was pretty decent I thought.
soupdragon1 said:
The Jags are great, I'm sure you won't be disappointed. It might not have as many options when you compare r sport to s line but what you don't get in options, you get back with a better engine, better handling and it's also a very nice looking car.
My quote on the a6 avant s line came in at £6.5k all in, Inc fees, for 5k miles. About £1k more than the a6 saloon se but £1k for avant and s line upgrades was pretty decent I thought.
It is-who was that with?My quote on the a6 avant s line came in at £6.5k all in, Inc fees, for 5k miles. About £1k more than the a6 saloon se but £1k for avant and s line upgrades was pretty decent I thought.
a311 said:
It is-who was that with?
Bluechilli.It's £800 to upgrade from se to s line.
It's £700 to upgrade from saloon to avant.
But when you pay the £700 to upgrade to avant, s line is only another £300.
In that respect, the 2 best deals are either se saloon or s line avant. Rrp price difference is £5k between the 2 so it's a pretty good deal only having to pay £1k via the lease. The seats alone are worth the £1k, let alone getting a bigger car, full led headlights, body kit, bigger alloys to name a few....
Actus Reus said:
Sorry! I had a white one (a hatch though), but wished I'd had red or grey.
It's a bloody outrage how much they charge for other colours though. £30pcm is a lot of wedge just for a colour of a car that you'll give back in two years.
It's OK, i've very thick skin.It's a bloody outrage how much they charge for other colours though. £30pcm is a lot of wedge just for a colour of a car that you'll give back in two years.
The Solid White is certainly not the best colour, but it does offer an almost total Q car experience as the car really doesn't look Golf R like, in the same way the Metallic Blues shout "i'm a Golf R" & i'm tight so only considered the car as it was very cheap & discreet. I'm the wrong age side of 40 to be hooning around in a noisy & shouty hot hatch
zayn said:
That is a big increase from my 66 Plate R Estate, i am on a £190 (Total) . Not sure what to do when it goes back in September 2018
I feel your pain, I got the same deal due to go back in September and I'm kind of hoping they offer to extend it for another year at a reasonable rate. I'm amortised at about £296 because I went with Lapiz, but I've sort of made my peace at around £340-50 all in if I can get a 7.5 R in red to replace it. They way I look at it, 2 Golf R's over 4-years for an average of £325 p/m would be a cracking deal and the face lift car does look a bit fresher. I think I also heard that virtual cockpit will be standard soon too so there's a few things the new car has that ours don't that justify some extra cash.The big problem I have is I can't get anything noticeably faster without pretty much doubling the monthlies. I have a £400 JB1 in mines and it's sub 10s to 100mph, handles brilliantly and ticks sooooo many boxes. If I can't get a good deal I might actually just steal it from VWFS
Edit:
I've just read a few pages to catch up and see a few people fisting on considering it on the Golf R. I can't stress enough how good an all round car it is and if you are looking for something fast, with epic grip and the perfect dual character, you can't go far wrong. The only warning I will give is that while the chassis is adjustable, playful and engaging it won't give up it's goods until you are driving very unsociably. Sweeping 90° bends at 60mph are dispatched with ease and the car can feel planted and boring. Stick it through the same bend at 90mph and the whole car will dance on it's tip toes, waken up with feedback and allow some decent adjustability on the throttle. Make no bones about it though, the R Estate only becomes seriously great fun when you are driving like a total tool. Until then it's perfect at the every day tootling around thing and well appointed for a base spec car. I'm a spec junkie and I've never felt short-changed.
DSG is also a heavily misunderstood technology. I regard my Golf as a manual car with the ability to be switch to auto if I'm tired or can't be bothered. Without thinking I pull into D and knock over to manual every time I pull off. From there, every single gear change up and down is executed by me when I choose using the paddles (even in day to day driving). I'm in the right gear for every roundabout, junction or corner I approach because I planned and selected that gear just as I would with a full manual. I drive this way 95%+ of the time and rarely let the gearbox run the show. It's also worth noting that I view paddle extensions as essential to get the most enjoyment out of manual-mode DSG.
Finally, Haldex comes in for a bad rep but I have to say it's pretty good in the R Estate. You can sometimes catch it napping if you have lock on pulling out of a wet junction, but most of the time it grips and goes brilliantly. You can also bring the back end into play in these wet winter conditions; the second part of my start up routine just now is to back the ESC off to sport and this allows nice little waggles coming off roundabouts, etc. You'd almost call it a drift......almost.
The long and short is it's a cracking car. You'll gauge from the above that I do drive mines *ahem* enthusiastically and that certainly earns me the odd flash and w
ker sign. Here's the thing though, there's enough in this "softer" hot-hatch (i.e. not Focus RS/Type R) to keep me interested so there should be more than enough to keep more reserved drivers happy who only want solid handling and some power for the odd motorway slip-road.Hope that helps someone. For balance, my chief complaint is lack of interesting noise (it is just a 4-pot turbo) and fairly punishing fuel economy if you drive like me. That said, considering mines will keep up with the V8 M3 and car's of that nature, it's actually excellent fuel economy for the performance.
Edited by Splats on Friday 24th November 21:18
Can someone advise the best level of Gap insurance cover for a leased car worth £30,000 with 23 monthly repayments of £215. Don't quite follow what the Ala website states and I'm sure it is pushing you towards a higher/unnecessary level of cover
Do I just need to select an amount that covers my total monthly payments, £5,000? Or is there a bit more to it than that?
Do I just need to select an amount that covers my total monthly payments, £5,000? Or is there a bit more to it than that?
Splats said:
I feel your pain, I got the same deal due to go back in September and I'm kind of hoping they offer to extend it for another year at a reasonable rate. I'm amortised at about £296 because I went with Lapiz, but I've sort of made my peace at around £340-50 all in if I can get a 7.5 R in red to replace it. They way I look at it, 2 Golf R's over 4-years for an average of £325 p/m would be a cracking deal and the face lift car does look a bit fresher. I think I also heard that virtual cockpit will be standard soon too so there's a few things the new car has that ours don't that justify some extra cash.
The big problem I have is I can't get anything noticeably faster without pretty much doubling the monthlies. I have a £400 JB1 in mines and it's sub 10s to 100mph, handles brilliantly and ticks sooooo many boxes. If I can't get a good deal I might actually just steal it from VWFS
Edit:
I've just read a few pages to catch up and see a few people fisting on considering it on the Golf R. I can't stress enough how good an all round car it is and if you are looking for something fast, with epic grip and the perfect dual character, you can't go far wrong. The only warning I will give is that while the chassis is adjustable, playful and engaging it won't give up it's goods until you are driving very unsociably. Sweeping 90° bends at 60mph are dispatched with ease and the car can feel planted and boring. Stick it through the same bend at 90mph and the whole car will dance on it's tip toes, waken up with feedback and allow some decent adjustability on the throttle. Make no bones about it though, the R Estate only becomes seriously great fun when you are driving like a total tool. Until then it's perfect at the every day tootling around thing and well appointed for a base spec car. I'm a spec junkie and I've never felt short-changed.
DSG is also a heavily misunderstood technology. I regard my Golf as a manual car with the ability to be switch to auto if I'm tired or can't be bothered. Without thinking I pull into D and knock over to manual every time I pull off. From there, every single gear change up and down is executed by me when I choose using the paddles (even in day to day driving). I'm in the right gear for every roundabout, junction or corner I approach because I planned and selected that gear just as I would with a full manual. I drive this way 95%+ of the time and rarely let the gearbox run the show. It's also worth noting that I view paddle extensions as essential to get the most enjoyment out of manual-mode DSG.
Finally, Haldex comes in for a bad rep but I have to say it's pretty good in the R Estate. You can sometimes catch it napping if you have lock on pulling out of a wet junction, but most of the time it grips and goes brilliantly. You can also bring the back end into play in these wet winter conditions; the second part of my start up routine just now is to back the ESC off to sport and this allows nice little waggles coming off roundabouts, etc. You'd almost call it a drift......almost.
The long and short is it's a cracking car. You'll gauge from the above that I do drive mines *ahem* enthusiastically and that certainly earns me the odd flash and wker sign. Here's the thing though, there's enough in this "softer" hot-hatch (i.e. not Focus RS/Type R) to keep me interested so there should be more than enough to keep more reserved drivers happy who only want solid handling and some power for the odd motorway slip-road.
Hope that helps someone. For balance, my chief complaint is lack of interesting noise (it is just a 4-pot turbo) and fairly punishing fuel economy if you drive like me. That said, considering mines will keep up with the V8 M3 and car's of that nature, it's actually excellent fuel economy for the performance.
Virtual Cockpit is defo standard on the 7.5R, along with the other additions in the newer model such as the 7spd DSG, updated Infotainment, 4 working exhausts, revised front & rear styling & i think full front LED's were only introduced on the 7.5 (could be wrong on that).The big problem I have is I can't get anything noticeably faster without pretty much doubling the monthlies. I have a £400 JB1 in mines and it's sub 10s to 100mph, handles brilliantly and ticks sooooo many boxes. If I can't get a good deal I might actually just steal it from VWFS
Edit:
I've just read a few pages to catch up and see a few people fisting on considering it on the Golf R. I can't stress enough how good an all round car it is and if you are looking for something fast, with epic grip and the perfect dual character, you can't go far wrong. The only warning I will give is that while the chassis is adjustable, playful and engaging it won't give up it's goods until you are driving very unsociably. Sweeping 90° bends at 60mph are dispatched with ease and the car can feel planted and boring. Stick it through the same bend at 90mph and the whole car will dance on it's tip toes, waken up with feedback and allow some decent adjustability on the throttle. Make no bones about it though, the R Estate only becomes seriously great fun when you are driving like a total tool. Until then it's perfect at the every day tootling around thing and well appointed for a base spec car. I'm a spec junkie and I've never felt short-changed.
DSG is also a heavily misunderstood technology. I regard my Golf as a manual car with the ability to be switch to auto if I'm tired or can't be bothered. Without thinking I pull into D and knock over to manual every time I pull off. From there, every single gear change up and down is executed by me when I choose using the paddles (even in day to day driving). I'm in the right gear for every roundabout, junction or corner I approach because I planned and selected that gear just as I would with a full manual. I drive this way 95%+ of the time and rarely let the gearbox run the show. It's also worth noting that I view paddle extensions as essential to get the most enjoyment out of manual-mode DSG.
Finally, Haldex comes in for a bad rep but I have to say it's pretty good in the R Estate. You can sometimes catch it napping if you have lock on pulling out of a wet junction, but most of the time it grips and goes brilliantly. You can also bring the back end into play in these wet winter conditions; the second part of my start up routine just now is to back the ESC off to sport and this allows nice little waggles coming off roundabouts, etc. You'd almost call it a drift......almost.
The long and short is it's a cracking car. You'll gauge from the above that I do drive mines *ahem* enthusiastically and that certainly earns me the odd flash and w
ker sign. Here's the thing though, there's enough in this "softer" hot-hatch (i.e. not Focus RS/Type R) to keep me interested so there should be more than enough to keep more reserved drivers happy who only want solid handling and some power for the odd motorway slip-road.Hope that helps someone. For balance, my chief complaint is lack of interesting noise (it is just a 4-pot turbo) and fairly punishing fuel economy if you drive like me. That said, considering mines will keep up with the V8 M3 and car's of that nature, it's actually excellent fuel economy for the performance.
Edited by Splats on Friday 24th November 21:18
Fast Bug said:
I'm 40 in April and pick up an A45 next week, so I'm just about ok for a noisy and shouty hatch 
Just aboutI'm closer to 50 than 40. Not a hater of noise by any stretch, hell i've just ticked the box on a shouty exhaust for my next car. Just a very different look when the said cars are being ragged around by those let's say more Senior
Burwood said:
BlueMeganeII said:
mholt1995 said:
In-between all the A6 stuff..
Had an update on my A4 yesterday- was on last week's build quota and is due to arrive at the dealer mid-December!
What is flexibility usually like for delivery with Audi/VWFS? Say, for example, it arrived on the 18th but I wasn't able to collect until 8th Jan, how would that go down?
I doubt this will be too much of a problem but it’s dealer specific. The Christmas period will no doubt help. Had an update on my A4 yesterday- was on last week's build quota and is due to arrive at the dealer mid-December!
What is flexibility usually like for delivery with Audi/VWFS? Say, for example, it arrived on the 18th but I wasn't able to collect until 8th Jan, how would that go down?
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