Good evening all :smile:, i was just wondering, it can be dangerous when i start this :D:D, if anyone here has sold their JCW, not because they don`t like it or anything but to buy a another car that they thought out of their reach in a normal " financial climate " but have found that it may be possible the way things are at the moment.

I know that now when i get the chance to have a rake through PH & AT i sit at the computer quite amazed sometimes with how affordable some cars seem to have become, it is tempting and i have thought about a go at trying to sell the mini to see if i can make something happen, and i love the mini to bits, just wondered if anyone else was the same or am i just a sad git :D:D

Cheers :cool:

I keep looking a F360's and thinking ....

i'm always on the browse on pistonheads... there are some very affordable cars that normally would be out of reach, but it's one thing buying exotica... it's another thing running them!

I bought a different car when I got fed up of the delays to the UK JCW Clubman - though the situation was largely forced upon me, as my old Cooper S wasn't going to last until this July (when I got rid of it in January there were real signs of it not lasting until February).

But in a different climate I might have been tempted to buy a car to "tide me over" until the JCW was available; in the current climate, I bagged a brand new Golf R32 for exactly the same money that I was going to spend on the JCW. VW had R32s unsold, with high fuel prices, high road tax prices, a new model of Golf arriving and the credit crunch all contributing towards an environment that meant they had to give DEEP discounts of the old model R32. Much as I loved the MINI's size, shape, handling and overall character, have no doubt that the current climate has put me into a bigger, better car.

Though I believe the tide is turning. With the big cutbacks in production everywhere and the Government's scrappage scheme providing the one big bargaining tool, I hear that most dealerships are now unwilling to cut a good deal, and as stocks have run lower the waiting time on new cars has now increased significantly.

I bought a different car when I got fed up of the delays to the UK JCW Clubman - though the situation was largely forced upon me, as my old Cooper S wasn't going to last until this July (when I got rid of it in January there were real signs of it not lasting until February).

But in a different climate I might have been tempted to buy a car to "tide me over" until the JCW was available; in the current climate, I bagged a brand new Golf R32 for exactly the same money that I was going to spend on the JCW. VW had R32s unsold, with high fuel prices, high road tax prices, a new model of Golf arriving and the credit crunch all contributing towards an environment that meant they had to give DEEP discounts of the old model R32. Much as I loved the MINI's size, shape, handling and overall character, have no doubt that the current climate has put me into a bigger, better car.

Though I believe the tide is turning. With the big cutbacks in production everywhere and the Government's scrappage scheme providing the one big bargaining tool, I hear that most dealerships are now unwilling to cut a good deal, and as stocks have run lower the waiting time on new cars has now increased significantly.



I can remember reading your posts about the delays that you were facing getting a confirmed delivery and finally your decision to go for the golf for the reasons you have mentioned above, it was about the same time that i got mine.

As i said earlier when i see some cars which i would really quite like to own, and not many of them being as new as the mini i find it tempting to have a go at changing, it seems that in and around the 30k mark now gets you a hell of a motor for your money.

I don`t regret buying the mini one bit, it is my first one and i have found it to be a briliant and exciting little car, but there is this bit niggling away at me that if i knew at the time that what i spent on the car could get me something or certainly go further to getting me into a car that i thought was out of my way, would i have bought it ?:hmph:

I agree with you on your last point that things do seem to be turning now , so after all it could be too late to get the real benefit out of the situation, we will wait and see, i am still tempted to dip my toe in and see what happens...:D

Cheers :smile: