I have a budget of £350 per month plus VAT and haven’t made a decision yet. One car I’m considering is the Qashqai Tekna + which is coming in below that figure.
The QQ is the only car that is coming through as good value on all the lease sites. Everything else seems to be silly money. I like it, looks good in a kind of steady pulse way.
I like the spec of it including the Bose music system. Ticks all of the boxes for me as a company car. There were a few other good value cars, but they seem to have been snapped up now including Kia Sportage’s and Hyundai Tuscon’s.
Hi Elliot. That MG didn’t last long then? As you are a fellow BMW driver, I will be very interested to hear how you find the Qashqai in terms of drive and refinement which, as you know, are BMW strengths. I must say that I really like the look of the new Qashqai from all angles and it comes in a much better choice of colours than you get from BMW. We don’t need to start looking until 12-18 months time and it could be that the Qashqai is too small for us but, if it’s big enough and reports are good then I will certainly take a look at it before throwing in the towel on Motability.
We are getting rid of the MG due to the poor range it offers. When I’m out and about it adds up to 3 hours to my working day. It’s fine for someone who doesn’t do the journeys that I have to and I would certainly recommend it for normal use. After saying that, it’s certainly no BMW and you can tell that it’s built to be a low priced car. There are days when the dashboard lights up like Blackpool Illuminations with warnings about everything failing then goes totally blank, So I don’t trust it either. My 3 series is almost 2 years old and as yet I’ve not had one single issue. If the premium brands don’t come back to the scheme then I will simply get one elsewhere. I know it will cost me more but I can tailor a deal with an upfront cost that suits me. When we are talking almost £10k for a Nissan and almost £3k for a Fiat 500, it’s obvious the scheme has lost the plot.
As for the Qashqai, I probably wouldn’t get one as my own vehicle but as a company one it ticks most of the boxes. I do have a bit of time to carry on looking around, so I may find something else as cars are becoming available for immediate delivery all of the time.