@hantsarchitect@AutoPap You're right - pricing them too cheap was their biggest failing.
So cheap they couldn't keep up with XJ demand at launch.
If they'd priced it right they might have had money for new product and (as Ford were dismayed to find) to modernise the factory.
@fr1tzthecat@adrianfclarke@flaneurUK Jag will be fine as long as they resist the temptation to distress the car. Which of course will be the biggest break with tradition in their recent history 😃
@fr1tzthecat@adrianfclarke@flaneurUK Cheap Leases kill residuals. If a new £100k car is £1000pm on OEM subsidised lease deals the 2yr old £75k car ends up the same or more on unsub'd finance. So the price has to become £50/60k to get the £/m sufficiently less to be attractive. Punchline below 👇
@adrianfclarke Yes, like you said about re-doing retro, the larger one suggests they want to show that MINI not reliant on being something that reminds you of a Mini.
@adrianfclarke@GhostOfFrederic I sold these new. Audi's competitor info focussed on very rational benefits vs MB A-Class but few enquirers also considered the MB.
Most sales came from those also considering Golf / A3 & were usually bought with emotion rather than logic.
Fun specs would have made a difference.
@sniffpetrol Umm, I don't know either of them but is Marcus' shade directed at Louis? Louis wasn't claiming the car was his, only that he knows who has it / had it.
@ListerLawrence Have you considered that the 78% business regs will include those cars invoiced & reg'd to leasing companies which are then leased to retail customers and car allowance recipients as well as end user businesses?
@adrianfclarke You didn't need aircon with these, they often came with an unintentional swimming pool in the boot that you could use to cool off instead.
@JonTonge Has Crampton considered that the 7 who claimed not to know about the election just didn't want to engage with him?
RC 'Can you tell me the time please?' Public 'Er dunno mate, sorry'.
RC writes 'Some haven't even got a clue what time of day it is'
Congrats to @Johnny_Marr
not just for making it to Number 1 but for being (I think) the only person to make it on the list more than once. Will there be a collab with Clive?
@TheRockRevival_ Congrats to @Johnny_Marr not just for making it to Number 1 but for being (I think) the only person to make it on the list more than once.
Will there be a collab with Clive?
@sniffpetrol Filling out the yellow V5 trade slip (or online equiv) is what puts the car into that 'no keeper limbo', but tickets etc then get sent to the named trader courtesy DVLA.
Got a call once from Merseyside Police after a £500 Mondeo V6 we'd sent to BCA was used in an armed robbery!