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After renting both the Beach and Ocean last 2 years a couple times and having decided to sell my regular estate car and make the Cali mine and my wife's daily driver.
I started the search in August / September and have resisted to buying a new partially due to the prices but also in a conviction that I actually prefer the looks and the insides of T6 enough to warrant it over a T6.1 + figured a higher spec T6 would be of much more value (>to me<) than a lower spec but new T6.1
Long story short, it hasn't been an easy search, had two cars snatched almost hours/minutes before I decided to pull the trigger and I am now extremely close to getting one.. But need some tiny validation of whether that makes sense.
There is no question that instant availability trumps a 5-7months of waiting, especially where I live (as we can move around rather freely but not abroad..), so even with the price slowly approaching a lower-specced new car, I think I am happy to buy used.
I am planning on using the car both in wintertime (European Alps and Czech mountains for backcountry skiing) as well as longer roadtrips around Europe during the next couple years.
What I am currently looking at is a 2019 T6 199PS 4MOTION, with differential lock, DCC, Dynaudio, Alcantara seats, all drivers assistance systems (Side/Front/Lane and ACC), larger screen and even faux-wooden flooring and two sets of tyres and rims (winter/summer). The car has a 37kkm (23k miles) mileage and still has a warranty. GBP 56K.
I could possibly find almost similarly prices newer cars (8k mileage 2020 T6.1s) as well as lower specced cars for slighly less, but I have to say that I am planning on keeping this car for a couple years. Also, because my current car is a 2017 estate car with <60kkm mileage (so fairly fresh), I wouldn't want to 'downgrade' into a T5 experience for all my trips, especially with things like lack of Carplay, a high mileage or whatnot. Just a personal preference and maybe less things to worry about.
I also think that with the summer approaching, there might be even more demand (more people will want something for the summer) with a smaller supply (as less cars will be sold because people might want to be using them?).
I know it's not an 'investment' and I understand the market is inflated, but I feel like if I could drop the differential lock, or the DCC or maybe the Alcantara, I'd still have to pay circa 53-54K so it's not a crazy difference in value + the car is 1.5 years old..
Any of you has ever been in a similar situation (maybe recently?) and has decided similarly or otherwise and is a happy customer / or has regrets? Or maybe something in this plan simply sounds really bad / good to you? Any feedback would be appreciated cause my wife slowly is drawing up divorce papers after all my California versions/engines/etc.
I started the search in August / September and have resisted to buying a new partially due to the prices but also in a conviction that I actually prefer the looks and the insides of T6 enough to warrant it over a T6.1 + figured a higher spec T6 would be of much more value (>to me<) than a lower spec but new T6.1
Long story short, it hasn't been an easy search, had two cars snatched almost hours/minutes before I decided to pull the trigger and I am now extremely close to getting one.. But need some tiny validation of whether that makes sense.
There is no question that instant availability trumps a 5-7months of waiting, especially where I live (as we can move around rather freely but not abroad..), so even with the price slowly approaching a lower-specced new car, I think I am happy to buy used.
I am planning on using the car both in wintertime (European Alps and Czech mountains for backcountry skiing) as well as longer roadtrips around Europe during the next couple years.
What I am currently looking at is a 2019 T6 199PS 4MOTION, with differential lock, DCC, Dynaudio, Alcantara seats, all drivers assistance systems (Side/Front/Lane and ACC), larger screen and even faux-wooden flooring and two sets of tyres and rims (winter/summer). The car has a 37kkm (23k miles) mileage and still has a warranty. GBP 56K.
I could possibly find almost similarly prices newer cars (8k mileage 2020 T6.1s) as well as lower specced cars for slighly less, but I have to say that I am planning on keeping this car for a couple years. Also, because my current car is a 2017 estate car with <60kkm mileage (so fairly fresh), I wouldn't want to 'downgrade' into a T5 experience for all my trips, especially with things like lack of Carplay, a high mileage or whatnot. Just a personal preference and maybe less things to worry about.
I also think that with the summer approaching, there might be even more demand (more people will want something for the summer) with a smaller supply (as less cars will be sold because people might want to be using them?).
I know it's not an 'investment' and I understand the market is inflated, but I feel like if I could drop the differential lock, or the DCC or maybe the Alcantara, I'd still have to pay circa 53-54K so it's not a crazy difference in value + the car is 1.5 years old..
Any of you has ever been in a similar situation (maybe recently?) and has decided similarly or otherwise and is a happy customer / or has regrets? Or maybe something in this plan simply sounds really bad / good to you? Any feedback would be appreciated cause my wife slowly is drawing up divorce papers after all my California versions/engines/etc.
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