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Wanting to know how much VW are charging for the new version of my car, I went on their online configurator.

 

A few minutes of options box-ticking later, I came up with the following... For a frigging Golf! :o

 

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I invite others to post up screen grabs of online car configurators with all the options ticked. :LOL:

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£9,750 of options? What on earth did you select? Moleskin seats? A diamond encrusted gear knob? A weekly pass to the local escort service?

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In the village where I work there's a KIA garage, they have a saloon in the window with a price ticket of

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

£26,000.

 

 

For a fucking KIA :nonono:

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£9,750 of options? What on earth did you select? Moleskin seats? A diamond encrusted gear knob? A weekly pass to the local escort service?

 

Morgan's already got that last option covered. :teehee:

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Erm, please Sir how do you get a screen grab ?

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Morgan's already got that last option covered. :teehee:

 

Cos let's face it, at £37k for a Golf they're screwing you, so why not return the favour? :teehee:

 

 

Erm, please Sir how do you get a screen grab ?

 

In the absence of a screen grabbing program you can press the otherwise completely useless "Print Screen" button to copy a snapshot of your entire screen to the clipboard, then paste it into Paint/Photoshop etc, crop and save it as a jpeg then post it in the normal way. A bit of a faff I grant you.

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That sounds too much like hard work, so I got a Giulietta to £33,800, that's with the 235bhp 1750 engine, 8c paint and horseshoe alloys. :)

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Had a look at the Kia site, there's a Cee'd on the main page (next to the prices from £13k) for just shy of £20k.

 

£20k for Top Gear's reasonably priced car.

 

http://www.kia.co.uk/new-cars/range/mid-sized-cars/new-ceed.aspx

 

WARNING!! Their site is far to noisy, makes beeps, bangs and gongs when you move your mouse/pointer over a picture link.

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That volvo i had as a courtesy car was around £40k,i worked out how much my Mito was & i think thats was 22k new. i dont think i'll ever buy a brand new car as you lose so much money.

 

Id rather buy a 1-2 year old car & let someone else get hit with the shitty stick we call depreciation :LOL:

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I like to buy mine about 10 years old, but fortunately I'm not a million miles from Smaky, although the bugger did move further away, but I found him :LOL:

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Waiting for a 3.2 166 to depreciate into my price range.

 

 

(and a SAAB 9-5 Aero 2.8T V6 XWD)

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I'm waiting for fuel prices to come down so I can afford to run my 166, think it may be a long wait. :(

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My BMW 320 coupe SE was over 30 grand - but actually looked it! :LOL:

 

That was in my Princess days......*sigh*

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You could spend that kind of money on a Golf but its still only a VW Golf.

 

Ive driven a mates new model Gti recently it was nippy seemed ok but you know what when i parked it up i never looked back at it once.

 

Not for me.

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I mean look at the bloody thing in Morgans first post.

 

And to think we moan about the Giullietta looks wise :LOL:

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The fact you can stack on £10k's worth of options is nuts! :tut:

 

There was stuff like "communications pack", "winter pack", "summer pack", "styling pack" and other such guff.

 

I ticked ALL the boxes for the purposes of this exercise. :thumbs:

 

:LOL:

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I've just got a Hyundai i30 Tourer up to £21,645 on the Hyundai website.

 

And there wasn't even an option for leather interior. :nonono:

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With the new smart car (might be all new mercs, im not sure) power steering cones as an optional extra :wtf:

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Must only be the Smart car... I can't imagine an E-Class without power steering! :LOL:

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I had a quick look on Autotrader to see what could be bought for the same money as a Golf.

 

Not really my type of car,m but I bet the extras are great, fuel economy may be a little worse than the Golf. :LOL:

 

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201230479987151/sort/default/usedcars/fuel-type/petrol/price-from/25000/price-to/35000/onesearchad/used/onesearchad/nearlynew/onesearchad/new/radius/1501/page/230/postcode/ba140ds?logcode=p

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It staggers me that people spend so much on specced-up new cars. :o

 

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad they do... So I can scoop them up 10 years later for next to nothing. :LOL:

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As for the relative fuel economy figures:

 

Bentley Continental GT 6.0 W12 - 15mpg

VW Golf GTD 2.0 TDi DSG - 65mpg

 

But then, if you're in the market for a Bentley, you ain't bothered about the cost of fuel. ;)

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