Soldato
No wonder used car prices are on the up, manufacturers are taking the mick!
My point is that new/used cars are so short they are even selling courtesy cars now.
They've always sold courtesy cars! I've often had courtesy cars that were also advertised for sale on the dealers website - its how it works. They register them, use them as part of the service loan fleet and then retail them.
They've always sold courtesy cars! I've often had courtesy cars that were also advertised for sale on the dealers website - its how it works. They register them, use them as part of the service loan fleet and then retail them.
Most manufacturers seem to be the same, not sure you are going to get anywhere with another manufacturer (unless can find stock/pipeline order somewhere with a spec you want)
Annoyingly though that is exactly why I ordered my car 6 months ago in order to try and avoid these shortages, with hindsight I would have grabbed something off the shelf.
And double annoyed that my original build date was 12th August with deliver on 15th November and its taken Mercedes until now to tell me its going to be late and missing half the stuff!
How can they leave out so many items and not reduce the price?
Well just had Merc in touch saying they now have a build slot available for my GLE but it will be built without the following features
upgraded Burmester sound system
Multibeam LED headlights
Wireless charging
Energising Comfort
So around £3k of equipment missing. No offer of a reduction in the price.
No way am I having a premium £80k car without even multibeam LED lights and upgraded stereo!
Even the AMG cars cant have LED headlights atm!
Guess I need to go with a different manufacturer. Wish had grabbed that BMW x5 45e when it was in stock last week, I see its gone now.
A lot of the high end luxury cars being delivered from now onwards are going to be so poor in spec, its no wonder the price of second hand ones with full specs will hold their value better.
And in 3 years time the second hand value of 2021/22 delivered models is going to be so much lower than slightly earlier ones with all the toys.
It's similar with other manufacturers. I have placed an order for an Audi Q4 50 Sportback Vorsprung through work (not with Audi yet) but have now been told that the following have been removed from the spec.
Was there any talk of reducing the lease price, of course not. So I am still at the will I or wont I stage and am considering just cancelling because this is a £65k lease car over 3 years. The probem is that cancelling now means no replacement at the end of my current lease.
- Wireless phone charging
- Advanced Bluetooth. So only one phone connected at a time and not able to assign a different phone for different user profiles
- No longer comes with 360 cameras and the dealer saying it never did despite me showing him links from UK press sites showing it did. His defence was it is not an official Audi site but I distinctly remember reading about them on an Audi spec brief.
- No longer comes with parking assist
- Only 1 key (which they can at least fix later)
AT least your still getting led headlights and a better stereo!