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[pscocoa]

I bit the bullet and bought a Phaeton today but what an education. The one from last week (£30,000 - 1 month old) in respect of which on friday I was told I was the only person interested and it was agreed THEY WOULD RING ME on Monday this week to follow up. No phone call but garage is 100 yds from my office - went in Monday lunch - it has been sold for £36000 - that is the South for you.  Told them what I thought and their offer to look round for another was not appreciated.

Being a northener I followed up another contact north of Watford and now getting new one in March for less than £30000 with extras and £99 total for 2 years servicing. Paid deposit today to big VW dealer. I hope they don't go bust.

Near where I live they are asking £32000 to £34000 for 5000 milers.

[tunnie]

damn nice cars, i just worry about the deprecation, it makes the Omega look good 

[pscocoa]

yes it is heavy depreciation but hope I have read market ok - suspect they will be more in demand. The A8 is just so much money - they look for £38k for an 09 with 10000 miles and lower spec. I will try to lock in the 4th and 5th year warranty as well. VW do a "back to invoice scheme" - if it gets nicked or written off in 2 years you get the original invoiced value back (in theory - needs further scrutiny)

[Lazydocker]

yes it is heavy depreciation but hope I have read market ok - suspect they will be more in demand. The A8 is just so much money - they look for £38k for an 09 with 10000 miles and lower spec. I will try to lock in the 4th and 5th year warranty as well. VW do a "back to invoice scheme" - if it gets nicked or written off in 2 years you get the original invoiced value back (in theory - needs further scrutiny)

Do some online research... I got RTI Gap insurance for the wife's Panda for less than half what Fiat wanted

http://www.click4gap.co.uk were who I used but don't know how they'd match up on a higher value car :-/ :-/

[Squealey]

My old man was in a similar(ish) situation earlier this year. He didn't have your sort of budget, his was around the £17,000 mark. His choice was:

Jaguar XJ 2.7 TDVi
Phaeton
Audi A8
S Type (6 months old with a full bodykit, did look the nuts tbh)
He doesn't like Mercs & BMW's

In the end he found out the S type was the only car he could fit a pikey bar to and he'd heard so many horror stories that it put him off.

I rang him one day and told him about a Lexus RX300 i'd seen on the net, he had never considered one. Within an hour it was his. 24,000 miles, 06 plate, immaculate condition, every extra a car could have and it only cost him £13,500, plus the bloke gave him over £2000 more for his X Type than anyone else had offered.

Now, im not saying the bloke was desperate to get rid of a big, thirsty 4x4 but my dad had someone drive up his backside the morning he was meant to be doing the swap and the bloke just said no problems, the deals still on. It needed both rear wings, boot, bumber, one light and god knows what else!!!!

Since he's had it he's added a pikey bar and had it LPG converted. He's now on the lookout for a bigger caravan as he has a car that can pull it. He says it is the best car he's ever had. This car was knocking on £38,000 when it was new!!!

[pscocoa]

Yes I looked around but at 6ft 6in and on the generally large size the Jags and Lexus 4 x 4 not a good fit. Shame cause the XF was nice.

Also had a go at a 2006 BMW 7 but too much of a gamble on buying out of warranty - had some posts on this a few weeks ago.

VW have some sort of option to put Bentley badges on the Phaeton (was same stable at one time) but I would get a lot of stick from everyone if I did that!!!

[cruisetopoland]

I demo'd a Phaeton which was superbly made but a little soul-less.

A colleague runs an XF which has been back for glitches endless times, but he loves it.

A few clients run RXs and swear by them-after having LRs and swearing AT them

I was truly staggered at the Skoda Superb Elegance 3.6-and even the CR TDI 170 with DSG was fab.  Small wonder so many limo fleet are ditching Mercs, Audis etc for these.
Why is a budget brand going at Audi??  I don't see the point of using the same tech and undercutting your own firm?
Magnificent bit of kit at any money, the Superb-my dream car 

[Squealey]

One of my customers has an XF, he brought it because he needed to downgrade from his 6 series BMW. Its only 8 months old but he's forcing Jaguar to take it back as it spends more time with them than anyone else.

Must admit that new Superb is something else, and they are releasing an estate very soon, just a bit too 'taxi' for me though.

I think when my Omega dies it will be a 4.2 A8 Quattro with LPG conversion. You can pick them up for well under three grand nowadays

[cruisetopoland]

Must admit that new Superb is something else, and they are releasing an estate very soon, just a bit too 'taxi' for me though.

Yeah-the saloon looks a bit awkward at the rear.  The Wagon looks much better and the overall appeal does grow on you.  They do have a distinctive look which some adore and some dislike.

I'll go check the lottery ticket..

[Squealey]

My dad did (briefly) look at a previous shape Superb in black with a 2.5TDi engine and quite a lot of toys, it was huge in the back and my dad was quite impressed but the dealer wanted a price to change from his 2.0D X Type estate of £8000. The Skoda was 3 months older than the Jag and had 15,000 more miles. There was no way on earth my old man could have done that!!!!

[cruisetopoland]

My mate runs a (old shape) 2003 1.9TDi Comfort and had it powerchipped.  I goes very well at 150BHP and he gets 70mpg on a run.  I was doubtful of this being a true figure so challenged him and off we went, brimful.  It was right on refill!!  Jesus-amazing for a big heavy car.

The old one is very dated but worthy, the new Superb is in a different league quality-wise.