My local dealer has promised to match / beat any genuine quote on a UK car, provided it's available etc etc.

The best price I have found so far is from drivethedeal.com, at just over

PS sorry if this has been discussed before, but it needs to be recent info!

It does sound fair and parking sensors are certainly a must. However, are you sure your dealer included internet based retailers?

Yes; drive the deal is acceptable, as the car you buy is supplied by a UK dealer. They'll match any internet "brokers".

Jim, that's a good price. I got mine for

A main dealer near where I live (check my details) offered me a black vRS with cruise, UK spec, for

Huck - care to name the dealer? That's a good price, as the drivethedeal doesn't include metallic (I want red!!).

Unless things have changed recently, red is one of the 'standard' colours (no offence, before anyone starts :eek: ) along with yellow and silver. When I got mine the only cost option on colour was black...

...and that's because it looks the dogs doodahs!!!

Originally posted by rich1068 in this post

...and that's because it looks the dogs doodahs!!!

Exactly - on a dog and not a car!

Metallic Silver is in fact an option @

Silver is also a metallic colour and therefore an "extra" , along with black .

No extra charge for red or yellow

Edited to say , beaten to it by Geoff

I was just testing you all and congratulations, you passed. Apart from Denis. He just bit

Try the dealer in Swindon he offered vrs for 13895 in July

Originally posted by rich1068 in this post

I was just testing you all and congratulations, you passed. Apart from Denis. He just bit

He did, but it was funny:D

Having sent out 13 e-mails, I have so far received 2 replies - I am glad to see that the motor trade is so bouyant that they needn't persue customers who want to buy, with cash, in the next 2 weeks!

Best price so far is 13,960 inc 12 months RFL, delivery last week in October. This quote is for a red VRS with cruise and reverse sensors.... bargain!

My black VRS estate was

The motor trade and e-mail have never been great pals - if you want to negotiate phoning is always the best way...

Rob.

I got best UK supplied price from Showroom4cars, then took it to my local dealer who not only matched it, but then bettered the deal!

John.

Originally posted by iambic in this post

Anyone got any ideas for antenna mounting on the estate?

Drop g7pkf (aka Dean) a PM. He's got more aerials on his Estate than GCHQ has worldwide!

Will do. Trying to keep it fairly low key on the car, the house is bad enough! Just a couple of smallish whips will suffice..... for the time being. Glad to discover the post here for the car kit antenna, that's one less for a start.

My beast, that weas delivered Sept was:

Black, parking sensors, thatcham cat 1 upgrade and a (nearly) full tank

Iambic,

If you are going to panel mount your antennas, it is very easy to get access to roof at rear - I have one panel mount base installed in centre of roof ahead of radio antenna, which I have also changed for a multiband GPS combination.

Not sure what you are going to use the whips for - you can have a look at our website if you want professional type antennas!

www.panorama.co.uk

John.

Only just noticed that my import also has ESP which according to other threads I've read isn't standard in the UK. I just presumed it was as everything else that's in the UK spec is there. Or is it a standard feature nowadays?