There si currently, on National TV, and advert for the Kia Sportage, on special. R242000 with a R30000 cash back / discount / extras offer. Add R3000 to this for Lic & reg fees.Mentioned this in a previous blog.
Anyway, turns out it's a 2008 model actually, but brand new, so will be registered as a 2009 model. But it's also pre - facelift.
Not too many changed, headlights, front grill, twin exhausts as opposed to single, new style mag wheels. Internally much the same, small change on the aircon buttons, and the addition of an I-Pod jack, as well as a USB port (for charging stuff?). Oh, and the radio can also play MP3.
So, I go look at the new facelifted model.
R242000, but, they offer it with Nudgebar, tow bar, Anti smach and grab window tinting, as well as the Lic and reg fee, all thrown in, at the floor price.
Both dealers are offering R115000 for the trade in (2004 VW Kombi, 1.9 TDI, 118000, full service history, inc. towbar......).
So, do I get the new look model, with all the optional extras, or the older look model, with no extras. They just called to confirm I can have it for R207k! Another R5k off.
Seeing as I would be getting R35k (R242 - R30k cash back = R212k, -R207k = R5k. So R30k+R5k=R35k) back, it makes more sense to me to go for the old look, new car deal.
Just wondering what u all think?
Salagatle!
4 comments:
Not a Sportage fan myself having driven them here but I'm assuming you get a better spec'd one there - anyway I'd go new, new
I hear you, and I feel like it's the right thing too. However, R35k cash back will take care of some of the financial challenges we face due to the Princess being unemployed for the past 2.5 months, and extra expenses we have had with maintenance and repairs to the Kombi, as well as medical costs, cause our company medical aid is so kak.
So, I shall let my head and not my heart decide, and will probably take the pre facelift model, and the cash.
Salagatle!
Since when is a new car a better option than an old well maintained one. You are prepared to spend 212K on a new one. If you take 50K I am pretty sure that Kombi can be sorted out and all wear and tear parts replaced. What is the mileage on it? How often do you use it? What is the expected Lifetime? New cars are a waste of money! You should now that.
And then it is a KIA. Have a look at the JD powers client surveys. I am a firm believer if you buy a car you buy it from the big five. Merc, BMW, VW, Toyota and Ford. Part can be a problem on the imports.
And preferably a model that is assembled locally.
And as a last personal vendetta I try to avoid companies that had withdrawn their products during the apartheid years.
Fish, you just don't understand, do you? I think we need to meet, share a beer, and I will make you a bit wiser.
That, or we can just have the beer. Either way, I'm getting the deal done - I hope!
Salagatle!
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