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19 days left till the new quarter, I’ve spoken to two bmw dealers and one Audi about their motability sales this current quarter and all of them said it’s been slow, hope that means prices come down in the next quarter.
Hopefully the fines dealerships get per electric cars not sold helps bring prices down
even though we’re looking to get an EV next, I would like to see more petrol options on the scheme eg the petrol ix1/2
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It would be great to see them put it on but with the Polo GTi being £3k I dare not imagine what the golf GTi would be if it came on the scheme 🙈 personally any cars like that would be welcome, I would like to see the i20/30 N models be added but I can’t see it ever happening
I see a few posts on here relating to the Abarth 695.. They are NOT available. Fiat are building Electric cars and have no date for any petrol versions.
Now, I don’t know if this is correct info or not, but a well known Scottish Seat dealership are posting this on motability related fb groups and other related socials:
If correct, quite a substantial rise!
I see a few posts on here relating to the Abarth 695.. They are NOT available. Fiat are building Electric cars and have no date for any petrol versions.
695, 695 Turismo and 695 Competizione have been available to order from 1st April this year, with deliveries starting July!
Now, I don’t know if this is correct info or not, but a well known Scottish Seat dealership are posting this on motability related fb groups and other related socials:
If correct, quite a substantial rise!I’d love to know how they work the AP out. There’s cheap cars that have a ludicrous AP and there’s dearer cars with lower AP!
Seems the amount of customers now being eligible, you’d think prices would be coming down not tripling. Or are they cashing in now thinking the government will be cracking down on PIP. Let’s face it, it’s coming.
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I’d love to know if anyone on here has ever kept a chart of how prices are, Im interested if it’ll show us which quarter has the highest APs and which the lowest. I’ve been on the scheme now for 11 years and I feel like Q3 in my head is always the highest, hope I’m wrong as we’re due to order
I’d love to know if anyone on here has ever kept a chart of how prices are, Im interested if it’ll show us which quarter has the highest APs and which the lowest. I’ve been on the scheme now for 11 years and I feel like Q3 in my head is always the highest, hope I’m wrong as we’re due to order
I don’t know about quarter to quarter, but how APs have sky rocketed in the last few years would be interesting to see on a chart. Our petrol BMW, which retailed at around £41k, had an AP of £2,749 just 3 years ago (that’s before the discount that I negotiated). If a comparable car was on the scheme now I suspect that the AP would be double that. Plus, of course, the value of benefits sacrificed has gone up quite a bit as well. Worry free motoring now comes at quite a cost!
‘At the start of 2018, the average new car cost £27,305. Fast-forward five years, and the average new car list price is a heady £39,038’
I’d love to know if anyone on here has ever kept a chart of how prices are, Im interested if it’ll show us which quarter has the highest APs and which the lowest. I’ve been on the scheme now for 11 years and I feel like Q3 in my head is always the highest, hope I’m wrong as we’re due to order
I don’t know about quarter to quarter, but how APs have sky rocketed in the last few years would be interesting to see on a chart. Our petrol BMW, which retailed at around £41k, had an AP of £2,749 just 3 years ago (that’s before the discount that I negotiated). If a comparable car was on the scheme now I suspect that the AP would be double that. Plus, of course, the value of benefits sacrificed has gone up quite a bit as well. Worry free motoring now comes at quite a cost!
the same thing with our current Audi Q3 Black edition, it was £1999 AP, went off the scheme for a while now it’s back in sport trim only for double the price!
‘At the start of 2018, the average new car cost £27,305. Fast-forward five years, and the average new car list price is a heady £39,038’
It’s just crazy isn’t it. I was watching an old Top Gear the other day and they had an original BMW X5 on it. They said it was £39k new. The same car nowadays is over £70k. Obviously the onset of EVs and PHEVs has pushed the average price up considerably (with many of these cars carrying as much as a £10k premium over the petrol equivalent). That price premium cannot be sustained, hence the heavy discounting of EVs at present. Another factor of course is that cars have massively more equipment as standard these days and that seems to improve with every model release, so is reflected in retail prices. My first car had manually operated windows and even the luxury cars of the day didn’t have a fraction of the things that the most budget car these days would have as standard!
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