1 hour ago, Mickey43 said:

 A Dragon Green Superb overtook me yesterday.  Looked very nice actually.

Some guy enjoying his drive back from Mansfield 😆

15 minutes ago, penguin17 said:

Some guy enjoying his drive back from Mansfield 😆

 

 

 

 

Up north near Inverness actually.  

 

 

Hard luck OP, if still looking don't discount Wheat Beige, though they are hard to find.  Terrible name, lovely colour!

Indeed, and I have a slim window to do the same to another person today.

 

I'm not sure I've ever seen that Wheat colour either. Wonder if it's one of the many we don't see in the UK

According to SWMBO I started this decision in June 2018.

 

I think it was more like 2012(ish) when I sat in a 3.2v6 elegance and drove it around a car park.

Edited 28 July, 20196 yr by ColinD

OMG 😨!

More than a year to decide / search / look / compare / srutinize forum threads / hesitate / ask again/ think about new argues / hésitate again!

But how do you do, not to get nut😯😱 !?!

The last three cars I've brought on the spot.

 

I'm a recovering impulsive buyer.

 

My recovery expert advised I try to sleep on decisions at least once.

 

It works, something else crops up and steals my attention. 

 

After two sleeps, the impulse is waining and normality returns.

 

Eventually the impluse engine spins up again.

 

 

8 minutes ago, ColinD said:

The last three cars I've brought on the spot.

 

I'm a recovering impulsive buyer.

 

My recovery expert advised I try to sleep on decisions at least once.

 

It works, something else crops up and steals my attention. 

 

After two sleeps, the impulse is waining and normality returns.

 

Eventually the impluse engine spins up again.

 

 

I think you are my long lost younger brother from a fling my Dad must have had. Been having those impulses since 1983.

Well how about this turn of fate

 

Was chatting with a suspension 'dude' today... sees a few DCC failures so the advice for a longer term keeper is avoid it. More so if the non dcc one is significantly less, i.e that buys you some suspension mods, if you feel the need.

 

Went out in a std sportline one today over some nice roads, yes a bit skitty and the odd rebound bounce. Nothing too panic inducing. Drove the same route in the v50 and got similar results, albeit I was going a bit quicker

 

Then I have an email when I got home about a DG one... seems I must of left my details scattered around the network  

2 minutes ago, ColinD said:

Well how about this turn of fate

 

Was chatting with a suspension 'dude' today... sees a few DCC failures so the advice for a longer term keeper is avoid it. More so if the non dcc one is significantly less, i.e that buys you some suspension mods, if you feel the need.

 

Went out in a std sportline one today over some nice roads, yes a bit skitty and the odd rebound bounce. Nothing too panic inducing. Drove the same route in the v50 and got similar results, albeit I was going a bit quicker

 

Then I have an email when I got home about a DG one... seems I must of left my details scattered around the network  

Dragon Green 220 at Derby dealer for £20,850 if that interests you.

Not really in a 220, if it had a trick diff maybe. It's a lot of car to keep straight. 

 

At the 26k mark I can keep the sportline plus 7spd dsg, which means looking at a 18plate/3-7k miles hatch, canton, other bits n bobs or a 12week old 190 estate 4x4 with canton and other bits n bobs. 

 

Just been thrown a curve ball of a tesla lease... got some reading material for tomorrow... I'm wary of electric for where I go and hang out, i.e mountains and scotland 4up with another 80 in the boot of tat

7 minutes ago, ColinD said:

. I'm wary of electric for where I go and hang out, i.e mountains and scotland 4up with another 80 in the boot of tat

 

Just make sure you park at the top of the mountain, then you can recharge by going downhill 

9 hours ago, ColinD said:

Not really in a 220, if it had a trick diff maybe. It's a lot of car to keep straight. 

 

At the 26k mark I can keep the sportline plus 7spd dsg, which means looking at a 18plate/3-7k miles hatch, canton, other bits n bobs or a 12week old 190 estate 4x4 with canton and other bits n bobs. 

 

Just been thrown a curve ball of a tesla lease... got some reading material for tomorrow... I'm wary of electric for where I go and hang out, i.e mountains and scotland 4up with another 80 in the boot of tat

Tesla model 3? I have seen leases for 430/month with 3k down. 36months. 8k miles per annum.

 

Expensive motoring. 

Seen a few lower, circa 12k all done per annum. The savings come if electric v petrol. Till the loop holes close.

 

Problem is a lease on a mileage, I feel trapped, my mileage whilst fairly stable could be extratic as heck. Four Scotland trips rather than one would see 3k extra. It's not impossible I'll do one of those as a mad dash weekend.

 

So no lease deals have a bit of a rough ride with me. 

 

No idea what the real value of a 1yr old, 2yr old is... For a 38k superb to sell 'new' at say 30k, six mth ex demos then down to 25k... I'm sure after two more years it's worth more than a grand 😁 where as the lease car goes back. 

Leases are perpetual if you need a car. Buying outright or loan gives options after to reduce costs. Over short term leasing probably saves a small amount or works out same. 

 

End of the day it depends if you are willing to continually lose on depreciation. To me, choosing the right car in the beginning and keeping it 5 or more years is cheaper and better. 

That's my plan.  I think thats why I'm thinking about it too much Of course I've sort of done it publically, I'd run out of paper keeping notes

 

A friend of mine does 200k over 5years just going on walking holidays, he's retired southhampton to scotland eery two weeks. He just recycles hyundai's and kias now. You get alot of kit on them! His tricked out i30 had all you'd need. Of course he's diesel and does not care so long as he has a place to keep his post hill pepsi

 

 

The DG loaner is back, as my car is still causing trouble. 

 

I picked it it up this morning and I’ve got it until at least tomorrow. 

 

My other half said “can we keep it?”  She hasn’t been in it, but likes the colour. She also asked if I could respray her car that colour!

 

I have to say, the Sportline seats are very good. Much better than mine. 

On 30/07/2019 at 09:56, ColinD said:

Seen a few lower, circa 12k all done per annum. The savings come if electric v petrol. Till the loop holes close.

 

Problem is a lease on a mileage, I feel trapped, my mileage whilst fairly stable could be extratic as heck. Four Scotland trips rather than one would see 3k extra. It's not impossible I'll do one of those as a mad dash weekend.

 

So no lease deals have a bit of a rough ride with me. 

 

Octopus EV are doing some pretty good deals when I looked

 

£2,500 deposit 

£430 PM

 

Those were on 5K miles PA, but this was the cheapest way as they only charge 4.4p per excess mile.

 

These prices were with £1,450 pearl white paint (which is now free) and before they dropped the price on the Model 3!

So after a period of reflection and contemplating...

 

how to live with dragon green...

 

for me it's buy a hatch in velvet red or brilliant silver.

or buy an estate in moon white/business grey.

 

Those combo's I've seen and liked. I say a VR estate but it's too much red.

 

Now the MY20 books are open I could be bold and go for a race blue one, but you pay for it, like VR.

 

I know I'm not getting Dragon Green, it's just a bit too loud to be quiet.

 

Pretty sure I'm rounding to brilliant silver, swmbo car is silver, it's a grey of a kind.

 

That said the failsafe car is a MG hatch, which also works very well for me, no one else in the family, but no one else is paying for it

 

 

Wife wanted a boring Rio Red Spaceback in 2015 so I went along when we were at the Dealership. Next day I went back on my own and told the salesperson to amend the order to Rallye Green. Salesperson said will your wife not be annoyed and my response was well I'm the one paying for it so she better learn to like it. All turned out well because she really did like it when we collected it.

2 hours ago, ColinD said:

 

 

I know I'm not getting Dragon Green, it's just a bit too loud to be quiet.

 

 

 

 

TBH I quite liked it for two days, but the novelty soon wore off. 

 

Back to boring silver again 😁

@ColinD It should be time for you to decide and sign your order, otherwise, Superb IV will be released and you’ll have to start all your reflexions from the very beginning... 😂

Just kidding... 😉

@Bap33 wait, there's a superb IV?

 

TBH two sales guys have blown deals just by being pushy, I really don't respond to pushes.  Another pushed me to make an offer, so I did, and I only got a terse reply saying good luck.

 

Having had a good neb at some MY20 offers, tempted as I am to stretch myself out to a new, 32/33 for new with options... I can't quite bring myself to that, 5k just to have new, no.

The net price hikes and 'bump' fo the MY20 is quite a bit over a late  '18 ordered '19 reg. On paper I'm seeing nearly 3.5k difference in the same car/options at list price! Kind of negates the savings and makes the forcourt exdemos more attractive. But a dwindling supply, no 'new' MY19 stock left.

 

Have 2 '19s now that are 90% right and two more '18's like 70%... just all 3+hours away.

 

Getting there

For me, I like a light interior and in many ways that has always driven my choice of exterior colour. 

 

Im not a fan of white or silver derivatives with a light interior so I tend to go towards darker exterior colours, or at least colours that on configurators look good with my choice of interior.

 

dragon green is IMHO a great colour but demands a black interior, principal reason why I didn’t go for it. (Plus would have to have been sportsline instead of L&K)

 

i figure that I mainly spend time looking from the inside of the car to the outside, so it’s more important to get the inside spec right.

 

a spanner in the works might be metallic brown (magnetic brown?) with cream leather - I was seriously tempted when I got mine...