"Monthly from"... surprise

[Moonpie21]

I shouldn't be so naive.

I was doing my usual play with the car configurator for whatever flight of fancy is keeping me distracted at that particular moment when I got to the options section.

Skoda now provide the price for options with a "monthly from" price, so now you can see that keyless entry a £210 option will add approximately £4.91 to your monthly.

I get that this is the way new car buying is headed, in that the question manufacturers now ask is; how much can you afford a month? But I didn't realise it was so obvious... it makes it incredibly easy to ignore the overall commitment or true cost and justify oh it's only another £5 a month without actually thinking.

I guess the end result will be that proposed Volvo model "Care by Volvo subscription ownership plan", it was available on the XC40 and I assume every manufacturer will end up offering something similar to this and you just choose a subscription level.

Edited by Moonpie21 on Monday 20th August 19:02

[Moonpie21]

Hub said:

Ah, great - back to the old days (L, GL, Ghia etc!)

Anyway, in terms of the last bit of the OP - I hope not! I dislike how everything in life is moving to a subscription model.

This is where I'm at, the premise of ownership even if a distant one (PCP,HP) is what makes it special.

Lease or even as far as Volvo go subscription, with a what looks like limited perceived ability to individualise from the manufacture, would likely take any emotion out of owning a brand new car. Something I find sad.

If it ended up all the way to subscription, would there be a market of cheap end of subscription cars and the resurgence of max power and stick on bits?

I do like the idea of Bosozoku for that very reason. I'm just trying to imagine a UK high-street or car-park playing host to a Tiguan SE painted in a garish colour, adorned with fairy lights, ridiculous exhausts etc.