C63s Buying Experience

[Aibonator]

New to the forum and just purchased a new C63s Premium. Diamond White, Black Wheels, Sports Exhaust plus a few more options. Thought I'd share my buying experience. It might help others.

List price on the MB website was £75,500. Went to three new car dealers, 2xStratstone (Nottingham and Derby) and a JCT dealer from Sheffield. All three offered discounts of 5% which felt a bit poor on such a large ticket price so said thanks but no thanks and left it for a couple of weeks.

Went onto the Buyacar website and saw a new car price with same spec from MB Sytner offering £8500 off the list price, more than double the discount. Both Derby and JCT refused to match the deal but Nottingham did and added an additional £500 on top of that if I did the deal that month.

As this was a PCP deal I was also looking at finance. Nottingham offered a ridiculous 11.9% over three years, guess they were trying to recoup some of the discount offered. Found a generic car website PCP calculator and typed in the details with an example discount of 4.9%. Took this to Nottingham and asked them to match it. They offered 4.7%.

There may be better deals out there but I was happy with this one. Just goes to show if you can do some homework and put it in front of the dealer larger discounts are still to be had. I also read that placing the order at the end of the financial quarter also helps - maybe an Internet myth but I placed the order this week for delivery in November.

Payed £66,500 in the end, a saving of £9000 with an APR of 4.7 over three years. Much better than the standard £3500 at 5.9%.

Now depress me and tell me this is actually a pretty ordinary deal
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[Fudger]

The thing to do is put the documents in your drawer, never look at prices and just enjoy the car which is going to be very very nice

 

[stevebgt1]

Comparing to 'deals ' i have done in the last few years , i think you have done ok ,. I run a company and put my staff in Audis . I only use one dealership near me and dal with the girl that runs corporate sales . Admitedly , staff cars are only A4's , A5's , TT's and the like , and i only manage about 9% discount , even when buying 2/3 at a time ! As for the finance , yeah you can do better outside the dealers options .


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[Little Lofty]

Comparing to 'deals ' i have done in the last few years , i think you have done ok ,. I run a company and put my staff in Audis . I only use one dealership near me and dal with the girl that runs corporate sales . Admitedly , staff cars are only A4's , A5's , TT's and the like , and i only manage about 9% discount , even when buying 2/3 at a time ! As for the finance , yeah you can do better outside the dealers options .


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They must love you, 9% on a A4/TT is poor. Drive the Deal were doing over 20% off TT's a while back. Only the A1 comes with sub 10% discount.

 

[stevebgt1]

I will be wary come renewal then ... Cheers dude !


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[Dave.tam]

I got 23% off both my C250d and A250 AMG. Saved about £18k in total.

Theses were pack cars though, but that only benefits me as the wait was......about 10 days

 

[Gene]

The thing to do is put the documents in your drawer, never look at prices and just enjoy the car which is going to be very very nice

Well said. No price on happiness. That's why I drag my self out of bed at all the ungodly hours. Put a bit aside and treat yourself with the rest.

 

[c32andy]

what wil your monthly payment be

 

[StuartK]

what wil your monthly payment be

This says so much about the state of Britain and how broken it is

10% is ok but to be honest I would be looking for 15%. M3/4 is circa 18% at moment.