Thank you, Mr Darling

[TW]Fox · 4 Sep 2008 at 00:50

Your ridiculous war against proper cars with your silly CO2 based taxation has actually made some rather good things happen.

http://www.bmw.co.uk/bmwuk/auc/car_details/0,,1260_159980106__,00.html?currentCh=WBSDU92070LF78906

Check THAT out. Thats a 300 mile BMW Z4 M Coupe. £47,000 on the road.

Except that one, an approved used car from a BMW Main dealer, is yours for just 26k. You'd get it for £25k after haggling. It's even got Navigation and Bluetooth.

All because the bottom has dropped out of the market. It'll cost 430 quid a year to tax, but the £22,000 saving might go some way towards offsetting that.

Why do people buy new cars again when things like that exist?

Can anyone provide me with one good reason to have bought the Z4 Coupe new, instead of used?

The person who spec'd that was given kind enough to pick the most desireable colour scheme inside and out, and every single must have option.

Begbie · 4 Sep 2008 at 00:51

Incredible, times like these are great for petrol heads.

It well outways the cost in petrol.

rG-tom · 4 Sep 2008 at 00:53

:O

*dies*

Simon · 4 Sep 2008 at 00:57

Awesome!

mejinks · 4 Sep 2008 at 00:59

pffft, the previous owner traded it for a Golf Bluemotion.

jongeeone · 4 Sep 2008 at 01:07

No doubt ^^

Probably bought 2 actually, 1 for a weekend toy.

gareth.e · 4 Sep 2008 at 01:18

Thats madness!

Rotty · 4 Sep 2008 at 01:28

OMG

and just had £25k transfered into my account about an hour ago ( sale of my share of a property I owned )

my favourite colour too

must resist

Anders0n · 4 Sep 2008 at 01:29

Is that price including VAT?

If not it goes up to nearly £32k.

Rotty · 4 Sep 2008 at 01:30

Anders0n said:
Is that price including VAT?

If not it goes up to nearly £32k.

thats the full price ( 26800 )

Anders0n · 4 Sep 2008 at 01:31

Rotty said:
thats the full price ( 26800 )

Christ, saving and a half then.

Do it.

Rotty · 4 Sep 2008 at 01:54

had a look round the bmw approved site and seems very underpriced, wonder if they have mileage or price wrong, £31k seems more the norm

MagicBoy · 4 Sep 2008 at 02:20

It's got ISOFIX.

LOL

MikeHunt79 · 4 Sep 2008 at 02:24

MagicBoy said:
It's got ISOFIX.

LOL

Isofix?

Phate · 4 Sep 2008 at 02:26

Nor · 4 Sep 2008 at 02:46

Anders0n said:
Is that price including VAT?

If not it goes up to nearly £32k.

VAT isn't applicable on second hand cars afaik, it's paid for once when new.

MagicBoy · 4 Sep 2008 at 02:51

MikeHunt79 said:
Isofix?

Mountings for a kiddie seat. It's an M car not a bleedin MPV!

MikeHunt79 · 4 Sep 2008 at 03:12

MagicBoy said:
Mountings for a kiddie seat. It's an M car not a bleedin MPV!

Ahh, gotcha. Yep I guess it's not the ideal car if you've got a child... Saying that they also do an M5 estate which would be ideal for carrying furniture at high speed.

cheets64 · 4 Sep 2008 at 03:17

[TW]Fox;12429092 said:
Why do people buy new cars again when things like that exist?

Because they can you look into other peoples purchases far too much.

Anders0n said:
Christ, saving and a half then.

Do it.

but "but think of the children" if someone can afford to pay £43k for a car or £26k they would, probably the car was sold back to the forecourt at a lost "credit crunch" nobody wants to touch a performance car, I really doubt double of even triple tax is going to put someone off when they own a very nice piece of engineering. Unless they read the paper and see what 1 gram of CO2 is doing to the World and not bothering to read up at what Indian or China put out a day.

blueboy2001 · 4 Sep 2008 at 06:58

358 miles in 14 months surely isn't right?

Cheap performance car though, no doubt about it.