I really should just buy the right car in the first place, e92 M3 gone, replaced with....

I didn't call him a fantasist, I asked him if he was fantasising when he described the awesome nature of the deal, in the same way that he was fantasising when he claimed that he was accepted onto the Euro Fighter squadron when he was 17, when it didn't even exist at that time.

Look you clearly all love this guy because he is loaded, has awesome cars, and hangs out with McLovin, but just ask yourselves this...if this had been a 17 year old posting about an awesome deal on his Saxo, would you have defended him from my questions so stoutly?

Going by hurfdurf's response, the answer would be no, and that we should treat people that live in America (which nobody here has a clue about the car market of apparently) with awesome cars much better than we should treat a 17 year old with a Saxo. This hardly seems fair. Everyone should be grilled equally.
 
Robbie G said:
Going by hurfdurf's response, the answer would be no, and that we should treat people that live in America (which nobody here has a clue about the car market of apparently) with awesome cars much better than we should treat a 17 year old with a Saxo. This hardly seems fair. Everyone should be grilled equally.
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Agreedo, where we differ how ever is that you asked in an obnoxious Robbie G esq terribad posting style.
 
Wow, what on earth happened here?!

Ok lets start in order.

The person in the pictures that you're commenting on Robbie is my adopted son, i'll be sure to relay the message for you.

Second, I always get good deals since I work with people who can buy cars at trade price from OVE. This however wasn't a good deal, it was *incredible*. I had no intention of buying it, nor did I even know the dealer had the car when I went there, I was actually looking at 370z's for my wife and saw they had a red GTR on the showroom floor.

The first salesman told me the car was an '11 with 900 miles on it for $76k which is bang on what you can buy one TRADE for, perhaps even a touch under so it instantly piqued my interest. After appraising my M3 and getting the numbers on the GTR, one of the sales managers comes over to assist on the deal to answer any questions I may have and to start the tedious negotiations. Naturally I wanted to know the in service date so I could know how long was left on the warranty. Well he comes back and tells me the first part of the warranty will expire in less than a year; cue shocked look on my wife and I's faces. Turns out the car's an '09 with 8k miles on it!

$76k for a dealer car is still a good price for an '09 in perfect condition with those miles, I was constantly calling my trade friend to make sure of what I was doing. We actually got up and walked away after they wouldn't budge on the price but the dealership principle stopped me before we got to the door and asked us to sit down. They sent the salesman home and I think let him go permanently too, then asked the old classic "what can we do to make this happen?"

I threw out a completely unreasonable offer, $70k WITH an extended warranty and a year's free servicing. It had already had a new set of tyres too which is $2k I don't have to worry about. Thanks to my wonderful English charm, I got the deal and signed immediately ;) . Still think it's not a staggeringly good deal? Oh and I only lost $8k on the M3 in 13k miles, to me that's pretty damn good too.

I'm pretty sure I don't post here just to show how I spent Daddy's money, as Gibbo said if my father were buying me a car now, it wouldn't be a GTR, it would be a 458 or an Aventador, unfortunately I'm poor and have to slum it in a Nissan ;)

I'm an honest poster, I simply post here because I like to share what I have with other like minded people; a good few of whom I know personally and even used to work with.

I think this clears everything up, I'll be sure to check this thread for the continuing inquisition when I'm done in surgery today being a selfish jerk.
 
Nice car but not to my taste, the 911 or 135i was more my thing hope you enjoy it.

But are you not doing your orthopaedics residency? if so do you even have time to drive the thing? My friend is in his 3 rd year a john hopkins and he is up for work at 3.30 am most days to be in by 4.45.
 
[ui]ICEMAN;20228712 said:
Wow, what on earth happened here?!

Ok lets start in order.

The person in the pictures that you're commenting on Robbie is my adopted son, i'll be sure to relay the message for you.

Second, I always get good deals since I work with people who can buy cars at trade price from OVE. This however wasn't a good deal, it was *incredible*. I had no intention of buying it, nor did I even know the dealer had the car when I went there, I was actually looking at 370z's for my wife and saw they had a red GTR on the showroom floor.

The first salesman told me the car was an '11 with 900 miles on it for $76k which is bang on what you can buy one TRADE for, perhaps even a touch under so it instantly piqued my interest. After appraising my M3 and getting the numbers on the GTR, one of the sales managers comes over to assist on the deal to answer any questions I may have and to start the tedious negotiations. Naturally I wanted to know the in service date so I could know how long was left on the warranty. Well he comes back and tells me the first part of the warranty will expire in less than a year; cue shocked look on my wife and I's faces. Turns out the car's an '09 with 8k miles on it!

$76k for a dealer car is still a good price for an '09 in perfect condition with those miles, I was constantly calling my trade friend to make sure of what I was doing. We actually got up and walked away after they wouldn't budge on the price but the dealership principle stopped me before we got to the door and asked us to sit down. They sent the salesman home and I think let him go permanently too, then asked the old classic "what can we do to make this happen?"

I threw out a completely unreasonable offer, $70k WITH an extended warranty and a year's free servicing. It had already had a new set of tyres too which is $2k I don't have to worry about. Thanks to my wonderful English charm, I got the deal and signed immediately ;) . Still think it's not a staggeringly good deal? Oh and I only lost $8k on the M3 in 13k miles, to me that's pretty damn good too.

I'm pretty sure I don't post here just to show how I spent Daddy's money, as Gibbo said if my father were buying me a car now, it wouldn't be a GTR, it would be a 458 or an Aventador, unfortunately I'm poor and have to slum it in a Nissan ;)

I'm an honest poster, I simply post here because I like to share what I have with other like minded people; a good few of whom I know personally and even used to work with.

I think this clears everything up, I'll be sure to check this thread for the continuing inquisition when I'm done in surgery today being a selfish jerk.
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Does not seem a bad deal, but here in the UK its average, an 09 GTR with sub 10k miles in the UK are selling between 40-45k and you've paid 45k after converting the dollars to pounds. :)

However I don't know what the GTR market is like in the USA as I don't live in the USA so maybe they sell for more.

However are you saying you could have had an 11 car for $76,000 ?

Because in my view an 11 car is worth $6000 more than an 09 car everyday.

09's - Are the earlier cars.
10's - Are earlier cars with some revisions, notably gearbox cooling I think.
11's - Are the ones with much better suspension damping, extra power extra.

So if you can buy a new 11 for $76,000 then to me it seems like a poor deal, but need you to clarify if a new 11 GTR is really only $76,000 in the USA?
 
In the US the '11 is the same as the '09. The new more powerful tweaked model is the '12 over here so don't get those confused! '12's are up for over $100k here now too because of the tsunami killing the supply, which is insane given the MSRP is only $92k for those.

An '09 with low miles here is worth mid to high 70's, so for me to walk out with a minter for $70k including a two year extended warranty is an incredible price. Even trade price dealer to dealer is 73-74k on a car like mine.
 
[ui]ICEMAN;20229393 said:
In the US the '11 is the same as the '09. The new more powerful tweaked model is the '12 over here so don't get those confused! '12's are up for over $100k here now too because of the tsunami killing the supply, which is insane given the MSRP is only $92k for those.

An '09 with low miles here is worth mid to high 70's, so for me to walk out with a minter for $70k including a two year extended warranty is an incredible price. Even trade price dealer to dealer is 73-74k on a car like mine.
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Thanks for the clarification, based on your market then and the deal done it seems very good indeed. Says to me you can add 10,000 miles to it and years ownership with little to no cost to yourself in depreciation or things breaking. :)
 
[ui]ICEMAN;20228712 said:
when I'm done in surgery today being a selfish jerk.
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*Criiiinge*

Anyway, I still don't understand why the dealer would sell you a car that's worth mid to high 70s for $70k. You say you get good deals because you know people, but the initial list price, available to the general public, was supposedly only $76k? It just doesn't add up, but hey-ho.
 
Robbie G said:
*Criiiinge*

Anyway, I still don't understand why the dealer would sell you a car that's worth mid to high 70s for $70k. You say you get good deals because you know people, but the initial list price, available to the general public, was supposedly only $76k? It just doesn't add up, but hey-ho.
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Basically, this guy has been here for a long time, is known to a lot of people here personally such as Spie (not me though) and used to work for OcUK back in the day. Even back then he had flash cars partly because he worked hard, partly because his family is megaminted.

This is vastly different from the usual tom/portable sun/c&p'd spec list/manual 535d/diamond dealer type crowd who tend to post stuff that rings all sorts of alarm bells.

If this guy is a blagger he is utterly gifted at it.
 
Robbie G said:
*Criiiinge*

Anyway, I still don't understand why the dealer would sell you a car that's worth mid to high 70s for $70k. You say you get good deals because you know people, but the initial list price, available to the general public, was supposedly only $76k? It just doesn't add up, but hey-ho.
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Honestly they should've let us walk out but the dealer owner is a very moral and ethical man. I'm sure they still made a couple of k from me given they bought the car from the widow of a friend of the dealership owner. I wasn't expecting a deal like this to come together but I'm not going to look a gift horse in the mouth.
 
By the way how is the medical training going?

I remember you wanting to be a (something)ologist can't remember exactly but something along the lines of radiographer or something?
 
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