Seems the Golf R is the new M135i in terms of bargain lease deals at the moment. I was offering a 6+23 at £230 per month earlier in the year but didn't need a car at the time.

Our CRV goes back in April/May and the Golf R deals are back on, we are paying £6150 over 2 years for the CRV, for £6500 I can have a Golf R at the moment.

Question is, they have a 20 week lead in, which suits me fine, but what I don't want is to sign up now and be let down in 18 weeks time. Equally, I don't want the car before 20 weeks as the smaller the overlap of having both cars the better as we just don't need 2 cars. This is with Freedom Contracts, I've not seen mj1br around here for a while, but I know this is who he says are very competitive and great service (he has an E-class from there from memory).

I've never had a Golf and they've never been my sort of thing, but for a 5dr family hatch with 300bhp for that sort of money, it seems like an excellent deal to me! Plan to go and test one on the weekend and perhaps order up next week.

*just to clarify, I am not saying the Golf is better / comparable to the M135i, I would sooner have the M, but they are way more than the Golf.

Interestingly the GTD is more to lease? go figure.

 

GTD has huge gas savings over the long haul. I have a friend who gets around 600 miles to a full tank in the GTD.

 

I used to get nearly 700 miles a tank in my 330d. It was a manual and some grandad driving was required for the feat

 

I'd sign up now (with G2L if poss) assuming that now +20wks is when you want the car.
If they're a decent company they'll hold the car for a week or two until you want to collect - it's no issue to them as you'll have paid the deposit.

The company I ordered my M135i were a bit s**t about this, ordered in November and was told a couple of weeks, then very little communication.
When I checked with a BMW dealer for the build date was Feb or March. It was practically March before they stopped with the "these times always come forward"

Let me know if you want me to put the name of the leasing company on an PM 4 you so you can avoid them.

 

There's hardly any reason not to have one. I would if I was in a different position

 

They need to hurry up and do an estate in this. I'll be on it.

 

Like a car bonnet, innit

 

I just got prices for an M135i ... BMW this month have just launched some good deals to keep the car competitive. I spec'd a £38500 car (basically everything) and it got reduced to £31000. Then the APR rate was very low.

If you fancy an M135i pop over to Baby BMW forum and PM 'TRL'. His name is Tony and he works for Berry Heathrow BMW. If you do a search on the forum his deals easily beat others. The price I got from him was £2K cheaper than 2 others I went to and their attitude/service was excellent.

I would have bought from him but decided against the M135i. The Golf R was coming in for me at £4K dearer when speci'd with leather and the same toys for me.

Prices to buy privately - as opposed to lease obviously. I am not in the market to lease .... other than in the PCP way.

 

Thanks John, his name has popped up before, but I'v discounted the M135i due to cost. I am happy to lease and at around 3k a year to me, it's just the cost of motoring (in a nice ish / new car), but at say 4-5k, it's not how I want to spend my money.

The golf is significantly cheaper over the term and seems to offer excellent value for money.

The other option was to just get something big for the family (we are a 1 car household) and the new X-trail is also very cheap, but we had a nose around one and there is a good reason is it cheap... it was cheap to build. Possibly the cheapest feeling interior I've seen, not much better than a friends KIA. nasty.

The golf, did feel 'premium' by comparison.

 

oh no...

http://sniffpetrol.com/2014/10/16/ev...-has-a-golf-r/

going to look at an XC60 and GLA on the weekend... the wife isn't so sure the Golf will be big enough for the family transport...