New car time in the autumn, need something dull

Superb and the Octavia no go - spec all the stuff the Exeo has and the prices are daft. Plus with the Octavia you can't have black leather - it's light leather (inc some fake leather) or black alcantara. The Superb is also dog slow in 140bhp guise.

Aint happening.

Mondeo next up.
 
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mikeh501 said:
That's utter cobblers... 4wd makes a huge difference.
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Not if you've got crap tyres. There's a guy up my road with a subaru legacy who couldn't get anywhere last winter because he'd just stuck with the factory tyres. Check out videos on youtube if you don't believe me. My car's got a good AWD system and relatively new tyres, but I still have a set of winter ones in the garage ready for the snow.
 
Those Golf's are short of leather and Nav I'm afraid.

Mondeo Titanium with leather and nav also silly price.

Passat I'm not even going to consider.

Going to mull over Volvo's but again they seem pricey once spec'd up.

I only see this heading one way.
 
If everything is a 'silly price' have you considered the fact you've underestimated just how much a brand new car with Nav costs these days?
 
[TW]Fox;20042004 said:
If everything is a 'silly price' have you considered the fact you've underestimated just how much a brand new car with Nav costs these days?
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Yes. But also it underlines the Exeo being mega value for money - £20k for a car with cruise control, leather, nav, heated seats, decent wheels, bose sound system, heated jets, heated & folding mirrors, auto-dimming mirror, ambient lighting, 60/40 seats, remote windows/locking, follow me home lighting, lumbar adjust, tyre monitor, i-pod, blutooth prep, parking sensors, mf steering wheel, dual zone climate, isofix and anti-whiplash headrests.
 
Because it's a full generation (arguably perhaps two) behind everything else on the market - it's a rebadged version of an A4 which originally appeared in 2000. The Mondeo, Skoda Superb etc are more expensive but they are also more modern cars. Seat can't sell them - nobody wants them - so the discounting is the inevitable result.

I like the idea of the Exeo - the old A4 was far from a bad car - but the idea of spending £20k on one, new or not, seems kinda daft. It's the sort of car that'll be a cracking buy at about £7k but £20k?!

Most of those options you list are surely standard on everything these days - surely every car of this type has follow me home lights, dual zone climate and parking sensors...? Heck even my 1994 Xantia had an MF steering wheel so impressive as the list sounds most of it is totally bog standard stuff you'll find on everything?
 
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If this was my cash I'd buy something completely different and maybe two years old to get something a bit more fruity, but it isn't my money - company car and the rules are such that I have to buy new so that's the line in the sand drawn.

I get it's old tech but does it really matter? 90% of this forum drive old tech.

This isn't my £20k - that's the important bit. My £20k would go nowhere near it - for the reasons you state.
 
[TW]Fox;20042139 said:
Most of those options you list are surely standard on everything these days - surely every car of this type has follow me home lights, dual zone climate and parking sensors...? Heck even my 1994 Xantia had an MF steering wheel so impressive as the list sounds most of it is totally bog standard stuff you'll find on everything?
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Hell no - roundness of wheels seems a tickbox option from the research I've done over the last 2 days. You have to up-spec or tick box every car mentioned here to get the niceties needed and the price is inching up accordingly.

You've been around BMW's too long!
 
merlin said:
I get it's old tech but does it really matter? 90% of this forum drive old tech.
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They do, but they didn't pay £20k for it. Besides - I was simply explaining why the Exeo stands out in terms of value - it's cheap for a reason. If you are entirely satisfied with this reason, then go for it.

Personally I'd rather just buy the Audi, albeit a bit older, for circa £10k if this was the sort of car I wanted. It is essentially a downgrade to an older design than your E90. If this doesnt bother you, then great.

It's an E46 generation car. Many of us happily drive cars of this generation, so it's not neccesarily a problem, but for £20k I'd want more.
 
Go an hammer some of the broker sites like drive the deal as the Volvo for example can be had spec'd up for 5K off list, mondeo 2.0 TDCI Titanium X with Nav 3.5K etc. You then use that to beat up the local dealers and if they won't play ball then try a couple of other dealers.
 
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