Anyone Sold Or Thinking Of Selling Their JCW ??

[alymac]

Good evening all , i was just wondering, it can be dangerous when i start this , 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

Cheers

[Wish]

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

[FunkyMunky]

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!

[ViscountCharles]

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.

[alymac]

Quote: Originally Posted by ViscountCharles (original)

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 ?

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...

Cheers