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no golf clubs at all:
Been around a few Stealerships recently, BMW/Mini, VW, Audi looking for a new car for my wife.  I've got itchy feet right now too but not entirely sure what to replace the GTI with.....anyway....

NOT ONE LAZY BARSTEWARD SALESMUPPET has bothered to come talk to us when we are browsing.. :booty:

....is this a new strategy? mind you I guess Id rather that than being jumped on the minute you walk into a showroom.

btw She is looking at a mini, or a 1 series (some cracking deals out there), a 1 series coupe caught my eye....but if I do change it will be for an ed30 or go down the economy route...I am stumping up over £140 a month at the moment just to get into work and back with hardly any fun....

vRStu:
I think contrary to the media hype car dealers are having a good time of it at the moment.

Ifti:
Yup, I was spending about £220 a month, just getting to work and back!! And that was with normal driving, trying to keep my mpg at decent levels so the fuel would last me the week at least!

Was spending silly money on fuel, and with the rising costs there was, and still is, no drop in sight!

Hence I was forced to buy a 1.9TDI, and althought its no fun to drive, Im very happy with it in terms of fuel costs! £50 keeps me going for an easy 2 weeks - so about £100 a month, leaving me with over £100 a month saved - thats not including the saving in tax, and the fact that insurance was half the price over the ED30! 700 miles to a tank!!!

Even when I was looking for a replacement - the guys at the dealership clearly saw me parking the ED30 outside, and I walked in to..........well nothing. I actually had to WAIT a good 5 mins or so for a saleperson to even come out from the back, and then I had to approach HIM!
Left with no further help or advice, only a couple of brochures. They were no help whatsoever.
Hence I just purchased private in the end!

VW build great cars, but their dealer service (well the ones Ive been to) are shockingly poor.

keith:
An Ed30 is for life not just Christmas :mad:

seriously though if you go into any mini dealers you will see they aren't toiling they look to be doing fine, espec 2nd hand ones, folks i know who have their mini on finance got told to bring it in for valuation even thought they are only 2 years into a 5 year deal and got a brand new cooper S.
But i prefer the low key sales rather than in your face selling.

GTIjames:
imo its best to book an appointment with them, in my case been quite young (26) i don't always get treated like a serious buyer, but bmw on park lane were very helpful and the sales lady was a right cutie

1 series coupe is what im seriously considering, 135i pretty basic spec apart from the new 7 speed dtc (dsg), not bad for £31k, and if i was willing to put pen to paper that day I could of had it for less than 30 and delivered by July..

dont see VW offering those timescales or discount on a new mk6gti, also having come from a mini to my golf i have been shocked at how bad vw's after-care/service is compared to bmw
  

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