Time to chop the Touareg

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Our current Touareg has just turned 4 and is at the end of its service pack & warranty. We bought it new for cash (only the second brand new car out of 30-odd). It's our third so it's time to look at something else and the Jag F-Pace is likely top of the list. We need plenty of space for camping & skiing trips so the Jag is marginal on size but on boot room it works.

My dilemma now is what spec and how to finance it. We've had V6 diesels for the run of Touaregs and I'm really not a fan of 4-pots despite the developing tech. My concern is that with the diesel witchhunt and immaturity of e-power in this segment, I could end up with a poor purchase decision down the line. I'd happily buy a V6 petrol despite the slight economy delta but again its about residuals. We do 9-10k per year in this one of the fleet.

Given the above uncertainty I'm looking at PCP for the first time to mitigate some risk. I've previously only ever bought by cash (or loan years ago) as I've always liked to keep my debts/commitments to a minimum and being one to look after cars, I've never had a problem selling at a decent price. We'd get about £20k for the Touareg so I'd just invest that for the term of the lease and treat that as a monthly outgoing.

Speccing a V6D S on Jaguar Configurator with the preferred options comes up with about £54k, young ones under 10k are all £40k-something so not a huge discount to new. PCP deal I've initially found is £29k over 3 years so I'm guessing £20-25k residual.

What are the thoughts of the PH "experts" ?

[anonymous-user]

Why not be a little bit different and have a look at the Maserati Levante, bit bigger than the Jag, gets good reviews by owners.

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MonkeyMatt said:

Why not be a little bit different and have a look at the Maserati Levante, bit bigger than the Jag, gets good reviews by owners.

I have looked at that, probably number two on the shortlist. Not greatly dissimilar on PCP.

[ZX10R NIN]

Have a look at the Jeep Grand Cherokee there are some very good deals out there on the nearly new ones as they're backed up getting the different models through the WLTP tests so there are some nice contributions on ex demos:

Night Eagle

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Summit

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

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Never really considered a Jeep, similarly not the Disco. My wife drives it 90% of the time so need to run it by SWMBO, she's not a fan of X5's as an example.

I like the Levante but it might be ruled out due to a need to have roof rails for a box and towbar for bike carrier. Stowaway towbar also makes any used buy pretty difficult. The V6 TD F-Pace looks pretty compelling at the mo', still pondering the lease/buy.

[ZX10R NIN]

The Jeep will do everything you require as well as being reliable too, whilst keeping the expenditure sensible or the Discovery which has the same drivetrain but is more practical.