THE 50K CHALLENGE: NEW MUSTANG ON THE WAY, BUT WOULD 50K BE BETTER SPENT ON ANOTHER MARQUE?

Glanza said:
That Jag sounds awesome, if you get the Jag would you be keeping the golf or is that going either way you decide as I think you mentioned it was a stop gap until you could get the Mustang?
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Golf has to go, already advertised it on the Golf forums and facebook page at £21,000ono. :)

I will buy an SVR if they give me the deal I have requested, now it is just waiting on there move to be honest, they gave me the whole the car is already at a loss so no movement in price. Got them down to 5.9% on finance, I can get it privately for less, but would prefer to do in one, so gone back to them saying list price is fine but drop your 5.9% down to 3.9% which would be about 2% flat. Also requested 4 new boots, new rear wheel, full service and a service pack. In short if they don't want to discount the car, they can discount the interest on finance, they can also throw in lots of stuff.

Anyway I believe they can discount the car, so I am sitting tight, plus I am not in a rush, there are more SVR's for sale and more will come admittedly at the price this is a good one and its in the exact spec I would pretty much option too, but at somepoint the brain has to engage when such vast amounts of money (to me) are involved.
 
wedrum said:
you lost any money on the golf ?
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Sold it to a mate at 20k. What it owes me pretty much with what I had done mods/service wise to it. :)
Happy for my mate to have it, he works here too so the car will still be here and it has to be one of the best cars I've owned, huge credit goes to VW on making them, proper fun, seriously quick and extremely capable road car. My only complaint on the car, DSG could do with 7 gears, not 6 and on MK7.5 they added the 7th, definitely required for cruising. I'd advice anyone to drive one, if you like it, then just imagine how it feels with the ECU&DSG mapped and its in another league of performance.
 
hilly said:
I'm sure you can retro fit, but surely that would cost a huge fortune and likely cost more than it would to buy a PDK car and wrap it yourself?
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Just like the Jag, if I get one, it has to be the real deal, SVR and same with Cayman, real deal proper GT4. There is far more done to the underpinnings that transform the drive and performance, plus make them feel so much special.

The moment I drove the SVR it felt super special by the way it went, steered and rode. :)
 
Begbie said:
I do. Only suitable for us abroad, but still tempting.
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Do it mate, I've got guys in the forces who do this, buy brand new cars to enjoy and then sell them once the contract is over as you do have to keep it for a minimum of 12-18 months I think, but even still at that age your gonna get around 23-25k for the Golf R, so you'd make a profit from the deal. Well worth it, get it done, awesome cars!
 
hilly said:
That's the key to the right car isn't it - the way it makes you feel, whilst you drive it. Everything else is relative to you.

I don't think buying a none pdk version, then adding pdk into it is practical. Especially when the manuals are relatively rare and therefore have a premium attached to them
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Yep I was not being serious anyway, because it would be huge money and not easy to do, though the only PDK GT4 in the UK would probably make it worth more anyway, as I cannot be the only person who wished GT4 had came in PDK too. :)
 
Begbie said:
6 months IIRC, because of VAT reasons. But I have 18 months left abroad anyway. I was tempted with a VRS245, but the residuals on the R are now very very tempting.
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Get it done, you live life only once and your guaranteed a profit, let alone break even. Just make sure you get a desirable colour, it makes reselling so much easier. Red and white MK7 Golf R's are sitting around not selling, the Lapiz blue ones come and go so fast. I'd get blue, followed by gunmetal, they seem to shift the quickest come sell time.

That was why I went DSG, 3DR, Lapiz blue, such an easy car and spec to sell on, plus it just happened to be my favourite colour and spec anyway. :)
 
Lustral said:
Gunmetal = Limestone Grey :)

The Rs that are sitting around as they are pov spec ones or ones that are released from a lease. The ones that sell have the options that people want. DCC / 19s Nav Leather etc etc.

My local Merc dealer could give me £27K for my R (sniffing around a C43 AMG atm) as it had quite a lot of options on it.
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Leather is over rated, the cloth seats in the R are lovely and in my opinion I'd take them every time over the leather.
DCC means 19" wheels, kind of defeats the point, the stock suspension on 18" wheels rides great and handles nice, but yes a DCC on 19" when turned up to firm will be sharper, but that firm setting won't get too much use unless your on nicer roads (smoother).

I think they all have NAV, or most anyway, even rentals. No idea if mine was a rental, but first owner had it two years and did a lot of miles in it, so my guess is it was and it just sat on motorways. Second owner did as me, serviced it, new tyres (junk ones) and enjoyed it as a weekend car. Mine had no options from what I can see, it was just ordered in right specification, DSG, 3DR, Lapiz, though it has got NAV, but I assumed that was standard.
 
Drove another SVR today as the other was sold. This one though more miles was nicer and had a lot more options:
- Carbon roof
- Carbon design pack
- Uprated meridian sound
- Gloss black wheels (not sure, think I prefer satin grey the other had, but these wheels had zero marks whereas other was curbed)
- Rear traffic / BLIS
- Powered tailgate
- Heated seats
- Heated screen
- Adaptive headlights

£11,434 in options.

Car drove same as last one, as you would expect and could not push due to snow, slush and freezing temperatures but car felt good.

I tried to barter, most I could get from them was 12 months road tax and a full tank of fuel. They offered me finance at 8.5% APR to which I laughed and said Land Rover on the one I missed offered me 5.9%, they said low rate they have to subsidise and not enough profit in car. So I said let me think about it as I can get around 4% APR. We started chatting, turns out he buys stuff from OcUK and also has a few M3's over years.

Had another look around the car trying to find issues, failed, came back in and said can I hold the car, he said I need a deposit, gave him a deposit on cc. He then says right it is yours and I am glad you put the deposit down as a guy was coming Monday for test drive, so he will give them bad news now.

He then said also please wait, 20 minutes later he comes back with a new finance quote, 4.9% APR (2.5% flat), I said much better, lets catch up next week on finalising payment/finance and delivery.

I also visited a couple of Audi dealers, had a go in an R8 V10 Plus and an R8 V10, both S-tronic. As per Housey says the plus is better and felt more in between road and race car, bit like SVR, when in their firmer modes. But the regular one just felt more road car, both hugely quick and capable though today was really bad for anything proper fast. But hugely capable, insanely quick and great noise, but the want is not there, I really don't know why as I love a good engine and that V10 is a master piece but to me the car felt more capable, easy and not so special. In today's weather the SVR was scrabbling at the road, sliding around, the R8 just went, the Plus was more playful. But I just did not feel them as much as I hoped not helped by being in dull boring colours and at this money its got to look bonkers. That is why as amazing as a 911 turbo and AMG GT is, the 911 turbo is way to easy and the AMG GT looks boring as hell though beautiful but does not excite me.

Mustang, SVR, GT3 styling excites me as such I guess if after this I am not back in a Mustang then GT3 is definitely what is next in line.


The SVR is a me car and the spec I've got I feel is one of the most desirable as very few have carbon roofs and no others are for sale, in short all this car needs to be ultimate spec is ceramics which if the car becomes a very long term keeper or permanent there are a few Jaguar lightly used ceramic caliper and brake kits on ebay for sale at around £5000. :)

I also like the fact I have never ever seen an SVR on the road before, so seems Stoke is about to start seeing one and absolutely hearing one, its so loud it is naughty.
 
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