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  • #5702
    Wailin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,446 ✭✭✭Wailin


    This looks like a cracking little car and a better alternative to the Fiesta ST maybe?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TxW4AU6IaM


  • #5703
    opinionated3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,190 ✭✭✭opinionated3


    Priced at around 50000 euro here in Ireland according to Dave Humphreys.


  • #5704
    vintagevrs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,398 ✭✭✭vintagevrs


    Wailin wrote: »
    This looks like a cracking little car and a better alternative to the Fiesta ST maybe?

    No doubt better but prob 20k more! Looks great, love the approach they take on this stuff.


  • #5705
    hooch-85
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,904 ✭✭✭hooch-85


    Its an awesome little car but it will be bonkers money here, like just about everything else on the market now.

    €30k for a Fiesta ST is a relative bargain now. But these could go up in 2021 also. WLTP is going to kill everything fun.
    I suppose we have dieselgate to thank for it all.


  • #5706
    Wailin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,446 ✭✭✭Wailin


    Wow did not imagine it was priced that high, that's mental money.


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  • #5707
    carsfan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,834 ✭✭✭carsfan2


    Looks like the new vrt bands are really pushing up prices of fun petrol cars. Going by the golf gti thread anyway.
    Pushing us into electric and hybrid cars.


  • #5708
    vintagevrs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,398 ✭✭✭vintagevrs


    If you man maths it though, it's going to hold its value very well relatively I would guess......so a bargain really?


  • #5709
    GustavoFring
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭GustavoFring


    I'd say if any make their way here they'll be living in a garage or shed for the most part at that money.


  • #5710
    maddness
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,841 ✭✭✭maddness


    Wailin wrote: »
    This looks like a cracking little car and a better alternative to the Fiesta ST maybe?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TxW4AU6IaM

    I absolutely love that. That’s a modern day Impreza type of car.


  • #5711
    Wailin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,446 ✭✭✭Wailin


    Interesting look at the new m3/m4.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxo5A1CPH7s


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  • #5712
    carsfan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,834 ✭✭✭carsfan2


    I love that isle of man green.
    I wonder how much the M3/4 will end up costing here?


  • #5713
    bazz26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,609 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    I'd say 95k to 100k easily. Sure the M340i starts @ 76k and that's before the latest VRT changes or any factory extras.


  • #5714
    carsfan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,834 ✭✭✭carsfan2


    bazz26 wrote: »
    I'd say 95k to 100k easily. Sure the M340i starts @ 76k and that's before the latest VRT changes or any factory extras.

    I reckon you're talking 110/120k easily due to vrt increases and a general price increase due to equipment improvements.


  • #5715
    JoeA3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,566 ✭✭✭JoeA3


    A friend of mine is taking delivery of an m340i in the next couple of weeks. It's a March 2020 car with a big spec. He's anxious to get it VRT'd and registered before the end of the year due to the pending VRT changes. I don't know the exact numbers but he reckons the savings are huge.

    I can't wait to get a spin in it!!


  • #5716
    chalky_ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 344 ✭✭chalky_ie


    Yeah, I can't see it being under 6 figures, sickening money.


  • #5717
    Leonard Hofstadter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Leonard Hofstadter


    carsfan2 wrote: »
    Looks like the new vrt bands are really pushing up prices of fun petrol cars. Going by the golf gti thread anyway.
    Pushing us into electric and hybrid cars.

    It's beyond a scandal, a big heavy SUV can have a really low CO2 and VRT figure all because it's a plug-in or an EV, but a nice light hot hatchback gets absolutely clobbered under the new regulations.

    Better for the environment my arse:rolleyes::rolleyes:!


  • #5718
    Top Dog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,176 ✭✭✭Top Dog


    carsfan2 wrote: »
    I love that isle of man green.
    I wonder how much the M3/4 will end up costing here?
    Wasn't the run out of the last M4 in Comp spec something like 120k? So the new one will likely be even more :(


  • #5719
    Wailin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,446 ✭✭✭Wailin


    The seats in that m4 are something else. With the various options available to potential buyers, rear wheel drive, x drive, manual, auto etc, BMW are really pulling out all the stops to blow away the rivals. The looks are polarising, but I think they look extraordinary, particularly the m3.


  • #5720
    carsfan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,834 ✭✭✭carsfan2


    JoeA3 wrote: »
    A friend of mine is taking delivery of an m340i in the next couple of weeks. It's a March 2020 car with a big spec. He's anxious to get it VRT'd and registered before the end of the year due to the pending VRT changes. I don't know the exact numbers but he reckons the savings are huge.

    I can't wait to get a spin in it!!
    This the same guy who was pricing m135i?
    Where did he get it do you know?


  • #5721
    JoeA3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,566 ✭✭✭JoeA3


    carsfan2 wrote: »
    This the same guy who was pricing m135i?
    Where did he get it do you know?

    Not the same fella no! These 2 lads are a bad influence on me - hence me pricing GTI Clubsport’s that I can’t afford and don’t particularly need....

    He’s sourced it from a BMW dealer in London. Getting it shipped over here in the next week or so.

    The m135 hasn’t been ordered yet. He’s hesitating and needs to offload his current car first.


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  • #5722
    carsfan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,834 ✭✭✭carsfan2


    JoeA3 wrote: »
    Not the same fella no! These 2 lads are a bad influence on me - hence me pricing GTI Clubsport’s that I can’t afford and don’t particularly need....

    He’s sourced it from a BMW dealer in London. Getting it shipped over here in the next week or so.

    The m135 hasn’t been ordered yet. He’s hesitating and needs to offload his current car first.

    Dangerous influences indeed.
    A bit like this and the golf gti thread for me I’m afraid. Putting ideas in my head.


  • #5723
    Wailin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,446 ✭✭✭Wailin


    New M3 to start at €122k, m4 is €124k.

    https://www.completecar.ie/car-news/article/10416/All-new-2021-BMW-M3-and-M4-get-510hp


  • #5724
    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,106 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    JoeA3 wrote: »
    The m135 hasn’t been ordered yet. He’s hesitating and needs to offload his current car first.

    Is he offloading anything tasty?


  • #5725
    hooch-85
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,904 ✭✭✭hooch-85


    drunkmonkey wrote: »
    Is he offloading anything tasty?

    He is actually.

    https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/seat-leon-cupra/26439025


  • #5726
    Top Dog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,176 ✭✭✭Top Dog


    Wailin wrote: »
    New M3 to start at €122k, m4 is €124k.

    https://www.completecar.ie/car-news/article/10416/All-new-2021-BMW-M3-and-M4-get-510hp
    Competition spec only for both, and no manual option.


  • #5727
    carsfan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,834 ✭✭✭carsfan2


    hooch-85 wrote: »
    He is actually.

    https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/seat-leon-cupra/26439025

    Wow that is some car he’s selling.
    How can he offer trade in and dealer finance though?


  • #5728
    JoeA3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,566 ✭✭✭JoeA3


    carsfan2 wrote: »
    Wow that is some car he’s selling.
    How can he offer trade in and dealer finance though?

    A long standing good relationship with the dealers so they’re helping him out if he gets a buyer. He took a deposit on it lastnight.


  • #5729
    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,106 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    Balls, If his dealer had a buyer for an ID we could have brokered something. It's better looking than an R estate.


  • #5730
    carsfan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,834 ✭✭✭carsfan2


    JoeA3 wrote: »
    A long standing good relationship with the dealers so they’re helping him out if he gets a buyer. He took a deposit on it lastnight.

    So VW dealer helps him get into a BMW?
    Hard to see what m135i offers over what he has to be honest. Less practical and will lose a ton more money in depreciation. Nicest Cupra I have seen.


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  • #5731
    hooch-85
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,904 ✭✭✭hooch-85


    carsfan2 wrote: »
    So VW dealer helps him get into a BMW?
    Hard to see what m135i offers over what he has to be honest. Less practical and will lose a ton more money in depreciation. Nicest Cupra I have seen.

    Yeah to be honest I don't see how the M135i is an upgrade on the Cupra either, especially with the few tweaks he has done. It's good value for whoever bought it.


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