« Reply #18 on: 04 February 2012, 05:57 »
I like ex-demo cars personally, when the car isn't a newly released model (which the mk6 isn't any more) they tend to just be sales managers company cars so don't lead too bad a life, depending on the dealer in question.
You normally get a reasonable deal for them once they've been hanging around a while and I notice that a lot of R demo cars are hanging around quite a long time so there must be deals to be had on these with a bit of patience and persistance.
I did consider an R when I was looking around last summer, but when it came to it, apart from a few year old ones that appeared for sale at around £23k (and got quickly snapped up) most were nearly £30k which was darn near double the trade value of an average mileage 2009 GTI. So thinking about it in clear terms, you could in theory go to an auction and pick up two 2 year old GTIs for less than the price of a new R. Is the R that much better than a GTI?
I'd wait for the run out model deals in a year's time if you're not too fussy on spec.
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