Cheapest lease car with EA888 engine?

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Would you say at £2800 deposit and £316 a month for 3 years, the TRoc R is the cheapest car with the EA888? How can you tell if £14k total cost is s good/bad deal?

The Leon Cupra and Golf R seem to be a lot more expensive now.
 
How can you tell if £14k total cost is s good/bad deal?

What could you buy a new T-Roc R for (Note: The answer to this is not the list price)?

What could you sell a 3 year old T-Roc R for?

What is the difference between these two numbers?

If its more than £14k, then its a bad deal. If its less than £14k, its a good deal.
 
What could you buy a new T-Roc R for (Note: The answer to this is not the list price)?

What could you sell a 3 year old T-Roc R for?

What is the difference between these two numbers?

If its more than £14k, then its a bad deal. If its less than £14k, its a good deal.
Seems very bad indeed, used prices are crazy high, and a new one can be had for 37k potentially. I can only find 2019 cars and they are 33K.
 
Do people really start with an engine and then go and find the car that fits around it and their budget afterwards? Seems like an unusual way of shopping for a car.

Anyway to answer the question OP, a Polo GTI seems to be cheaper at £195.98 per month over 3 years with a £2591.81 deposit.
 
Troc interior is really crap. Because it’s a hardcore 4x4, it’s full of cheap scratchy plastics. Surprisingly poor considering how nice the Golf 7 is.
 

Just in case you need a refresher on the difference:

Hardcore 4x4

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Bobbins crossover that would die if it got two wheels up on the pavement outside the shops

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Hardcore 4x4? Good luck taking it across anything more than a dry, reasonably level field :D

To be fair the VW SUVs generally do alright if you put them on the right tyres (at least the ones that actually have 4Motion, etc. and one of the better engines for power) - but they are no hardcore 4x4 LOL. I'm not even sure I'd call my Navara a hardcore 4x4 :s

Do people really start with an engine and then go and find the car that fits around it and their budget afterwards? Seems like an unusual way of shopping for a car.

Anyway to answer the question OP, a Polo GTI seems to be cheaper at £195.98 per month over 3 years with a £2591.81 deposit.

Personally engine is a strong consideration and I tend to look for cars around the kind of engines I find interesting.
 
Just in case you need a refresher on the difference:

Hardcore 4x4


Bobbins crossover that would die if it got two wheels up on the pavement outside the shops


:p
Oh dear, I thought you knew I was joking. Dude..
 
Yeah that was the point. But the T-Roc is just a jacked-up Golf with a **** interior for yummy mummies.

The Mk2 Golf Country was more of an off-reader than the T-Roc :p
 
Unsure will find a "cheap" lease for new cars with that engine. Golf R has gone up about 3k for the Mk8. Just ordered one on a lease. :p

FYI when I was looking the deals went up about 60 quid a month overnight from 30th June to 1st July. Assume some kind of targets?
 
Unsure will find a "cheap" lease for new cars with that engine. Golf R has gone up about 3k for the Mk8. Just ordered one on a lease. :p

FYI when I was looking the deals went up about 60 quid a month overnight from 30th June to 1st July. Assume some kind of targets?

I think we've seen the last of bargain leases for a while, personal leasing is back to being just about the most expensive and least flexible way to get a car.
 
Is there a specific reason you want to a brand new car?

Personally I'd be looking at getting a loan and buying a 2-3 year old approved used car. If you always lease then you'll never accumulate money towards your next purchase. If you buy a car and eventually own it, then when you come to your next car purchase you have something to use towards the cost. Do this over 3-5 "cycles" and you'll be able to move into better and more expensive cars eventually, the same expensive cars that would be a huge monthly cost on a lease.

Leon Cupra would be my recommendation.
 
After my EA888 had a catestrophic failure and then reading up about it not being uncommon I wouldn't have another EA888 unless I really liked the car first. Mind you that was an early version of the engine (mk6 GTI) so hopefully they are more reliable now.
 
After my EA888 had a catestrophic failure and then reading up about it not being uncommon I wouldn't have another EA888 unless I really liked the car first. Mind you that was an early version of the engine (mk6 GTI) so hopefully they are more reliable now.
There must be millions of cars running the EA888 as VAG use it in EVERYTHING now.
My parents have a 10-year-old Mk6 GTI and the engine is fine. You must’ve been unlucky.
 
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