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Model specific boards => Golf mk7 => Topic started by: wayne rooney on 05 June 2014, 07:25
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Hi Guys,
Excellent forum and have enjoyed reading all the posts.
Can anybody advise on what discount I could aim for on buying a new Golf R.
I am looking to buy a standard 5 door manual GTI R in red and intend to purchase outright without any finance.
On the VW site using the configurator the price quote is £30,555.00
Before I start negotiating at my local VW dealers, can anybody give me a realistic figure of discount I could achieve ?
Does anybody believe that a straight 27K is possible ?
Thanks for any replies....
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How long are you planning on keeping the car? There are some excellent lease deals about if you change every 3 years, with an average £320pm over 2 or 3 years and 10k miles per year allowance (taking into account the initial payment weighting upfront).
You can't beat that with a 3 year purchase right now. If you get a £30k R for £27k and it retains 51% of RRP (quoted GFV for an R) then it will still have lost £11700 over 3 years, or £325 a month. That's without taking any interest into consideration. Chances are there'll be about £3.5k interest to consider if you put £7k down to finance the £20k balance - Thats pretty much an extra £100 a month that buying with finance will cost you over the best leases you can find. 8p a mile excess charge is very reasonable if you need to do a bigger annual mileage.
With you not needing finance at all, that's £27k you could have sitting in the bank/ISA, earning interest for you if you leased on the same average monthly cost as an interest-free £27k loan.
If you were still wanting to buy outright and have nothing to part-ex you could just go straight to a broker and pay £27k.
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It's likely that Drive the deal will give you the best reference price, loads here have bought through them, myself included. My local dealer couldn't offer more that 8% whereas dtd was nearly 12%. Carwow are good too if you prefer a local dealer, should get up to 10% via them.
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As others have said have a look at drivethedeal.com
A golf R manual 5 Dr from them is
Drive The Deal Discounted Price: £26,729
Your Saving: £3745
So you could even throw in 1 option and still get it for your £27,000
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I went through DTD and got just over 12%. For a 3 door R with metallic paint it came to £26750ish.
I've gone down PCP route, only because I am going to try very hard to keep this car for 4 years +.
The lease deals are very good though, and are better if you have no interest in owning the car at the end of the term.