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£10k for a new leaf in the uk , small catch.

  • 10-10-2013 6:15pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,946 ✭✭✭


    From autocar today ,http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/best-car-deals-nissan-leaf-ford-focus-audi-a3-volkswagen-golf

    Frankly, we couldn't believe our eyes when we saw this deal for the Nissan Leaf. Drive the Deal is currently offering a 5-door Visia Flex model for £10,831 - which is a massive saving on the £20,989 list price and also includes the Government's £5000 electric vehicle grant. If you can prove you own a previous-generation Nissan Leaf or Toyota Prius, however, things get even better, as you get an extra discount, which means you end up with a final price of just £9879.10.

    Remember that Flex models of the Leaf require you to lease the battery from Nissan, however, which starts at £70 per month for three years and gives you an annual mileage limit of 7500.

    These are just a selection of the best deals we found this week. If you find better, let us know by registering for the site and posting below.


    2013-nissan-leaf-01_2_0.jpg


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,769 ✭✭✭eljono


    Lease battery at 70 p.m. for 3 years add the initial price and it's still only £13,351, great value if you do low mileage. Though they do say "which starts at £70 per month", so there's probably an option to raise the mileage limit and pay more monthly. Running costs would be pretty minimal too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,017 ✭✭✭lomb


    Nothing great about that deal. I bought a MkIV golf new with an engine included for 10k stg 10 years ago. Today you can get something like a Fiesta diesel for 10700 or a Megane for 13k. Both of these will have engines that come with the car!
    http://www.motorpoint.co.uk/NewCars


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,208 ✭✭✭keithclancy


    Bigus wrote: »
    and gives you an annual mileage limit of 7500.

    Now not only do you have range anxiety, you have to much mileage anxiety also :pac::pac:

    "NO I CAN'T BRING YOU TO THE SHOPS ... I NEED THAT F&%^%NG MILEAGE TO GET TO WORK!!"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭corkgsxr


    Thats a nice bit lower than average milage.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,014 ✭✭✭Soarer


    lomb wrote: »
    Nothing great about that deal. I bought a MkIV golf new with an engine included for 10k stg 10 years ago. Today you can get something like a Fiesta diesel for 10700 or a Megane for 13k. Both of these will have engines that come with the car!
    http://www.motorpoint.co.uk/NewCars

    But what if you want a car without an engine?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    Bigus wrote: »
    From autocar today ,http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/best-car-deals-nissan-leaf-ford-focus-audi-a3-volkswagen-golf

    Frankly, we couldn't believe our eyes when we saw this deal for the Nissan Leaf. Drive the Deal is currently offering a 5-door Visia Flex model for £10,831 - which is a massive saving on the £20,989 list price and also includes the Government's £5000 electric vehicle grant.
    Car is STG£16k on the Nissan website: http://www.nissan.co.uk/GB/en/vehicle/electric-vehicles/leaf.html


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,017 ✭✭✭lomb


    Soarer wrote: »
    But what if you want a car without an engine?

    No thank you. I need the power. Bring on 200+bhp anyday with no range anxiety and total freedom.
    Why would anyone want to step so far down in the historic past is mind boggling.
    Saving the planet? Get a grip. Each human rapes the enviroment in food,fuel and resource use. If you want to save the environment have no/few kids.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,014 ✭✭✭Soarer


    lomb wrote: »
    No thank you. I need the power. Bring on 200+bhp anyday with no range anxiety and total freedom.

    So which of the cars you listed gives you 200bhp+?
    lomb wrote: »
    Why would anyone want to step so far down in the historic past is mind boggling.

    Have you ever bought anything handmade?
    lomb wrote: »
    Saving the planet? Get a grip. Each human rapes the enviroment in food,fuel and resource use. If you want to save the environment have no/few kids.

    Who mentioned anything about saving the planet? Most people that buy the Leaf do so for economic reasons, not environmental.

    You come across as the kinda guy that cuts first, measures second.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,017 ✭✭✭lomb


    Soarer wrote: »
    So which of the cars you listed gives you 200bhp+?



    Have you ever bought anything handmade?



    Who mentioned anything about saving the planet? Most people that buy the Leaf do so for economic reasons, not environmental.

    You come across as the kinda guy that cuts first, measures second.

    If I cant buy new Id buy used. The fiestas/ meganes listed have a reasonable amount of power and more than the leaf and are compartively priced.

    Most things handmade are overpriced rubbish. Perfection comes from repetition. On Industrial products like cars this can only come via machines with some human interaction. Besides the leaf is machine made Im assuming.

    Not really, I just dont think pretending you are socially conscious at dinner parties makes you .Fact is you are going to strip more KW/ resourse, food than someone in the Developing world. Of course if any of them were given a chance they would too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71 ✭✭EthicRanger


    lomb wrote: »
    No thank you. I need the power. Bring on 200+bhp anyday with no range anxiety and total freedom.
    Why would anyone want to step so far down in the historic past is mind boggling.
    Saving the planet? Get a grip. Each human rapes the enviroment in food,fuel and resource use. If you want to save the environment have no/few kids.

    These crazy people just don't want to strech their freedom in to exploiting (polluting , slowly killing those who are in poor regions, following "the right of the strongest") others.
    SOrry, why your freedom doesn't end, where others freedom ( to breath, have basic necesities ( rather than discount for you for your new car) ) begin?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71 ✭✭EthicRanger


    Soarer wrote: »
    Who mentioned anything about saving the planet? Most people that buy the Leaf do so for economic reasons, not environmental.

    Disagree.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    Disagree.
    I'm interested to know on what grounds?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,014 ✭✭✭Soarer


    Disagree.

    And you're perfectly entitled to do so.

    Genuinely don't understand how you think most people that buy the Leaf do so to be "environmental". Leaf owners aren't mental. They are saving money with every kilometre they drive though.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,892 ✭✭✭spank_inferno


    These crazy people just don't want to strech their freedom in to exploiting (polluting , slowly killing those who are in poor regions, following "the right of the strongest") others.
    SOrry, why your freedom doesn't end, where others freedom ( to breath, have basic necesities ( rather than discount for you for your new car) ) begin?

    Please.

    Tell it to the poor fu*kers working down a near toxic lithium mine to make batteries to fuel western eco-guilt.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,822 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    Anan1 wrote: »
    I'm interested to know on what grounds?

    ...ask how many people bought that bought new small cars since 2008 how many g/CO2 km their cars emit and I'd wager the majority of them wouldn't have a clue.

    Ask them how much their car tax is and their eyes will light up with glee as they tell you little it is.

    That's economics trumping the environment in Real Life. :D

    Ode To The Motorist

    “And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, generates funds to the exchequer. You don't want to acknowledge that as truth because, deep down in places you don't talk about at the Green Party, you want me on that road, you need me on that road. We use words like freedom, enjoyment, sport and community. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent instilling those values in our families and loved ones. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the tax revenue and the very freedom to spend it that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you pick up a bus pass and get the ********* ********* off the road” 



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,537 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    Most people that buy the Leaf do so for economic reasons, not environmental.
    there is no economic reason to buy a new car over a cheap used one.


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