Yet another car related one...
...seems to be somewhat of a recurring theme in this QOTW.

Not me this time but a mate.

Said mate is well into cars, and since before I met him, (around 6 years ago) has been driving Subaru Imprezas. For those with no interest in petrol powered vehicular transport; its fast. As fuck.

All those baseball capped cocks in Corsas with exhausts like an commercial sized can of baked beans?

They want to be driving one of these...things.

However, all this performance means that they are slightly costly to run, and said mate being slightly anal about servicing, warranties and the like, (a blown engine in the past has taught him to be cautious) spends a small fortune on keeping the thing in tip top order.

So, with a spring in his step, Hat's Mate takes his latest pride and joy to have her (yes - it's a female) annual check up knowing that she has only been fed the finest petroleum distillates and rubbed down up regularly with the highest quality soaps and waxes...




...and leaves the dealers an hour later with a new, higher spec pride and joy...




Apparently the cost of a full service as well as new brake disks and pads all round as well as the cost of and updated warranty meant that it somehow made better financial sense to get a new car.

Sounded like bollocks to me, and quite frankly listening to him explain the reasons behind his decision was akin to listening to an MP try to justify the rent boys, KY jelly and donkey porn recently claimed back on expenses as 'miscellaneous entertainment'.


18 months later?

Yep. exactly the same thing again.

The fucking dealer must be rubbing his hands together every time he sees that man pull onto the forecourt...
( TheMattInAHat has a particular... odour..., Fri 22 May 2009, 21:23, 3 replies)

Scoobys
Given the kick backs from Subaru in recent years, this is plausible....

I think Subaru only sold something like 16 of their top spec car so far this year...
(morse, Fri 22 May 2009, 22:00, closed)

this was a couple of years back mind...
...not much in the way of discount apparently (except the usual mats, flaps and a full tank as well as a decent part ex)
The latest one ("18 months later" above) is the last saloon model.

Apparently loads of the scooby aficionados hate the hatchback version.

Which is understandable cos it looks like an Astra with a bonnet scoop.
( TheMattInAHat has a particular... odour..., Fri 22 May 2009, 22:13, closed)

Not as unlikely as it may sound
My Jag is up for its first annual service and car tax renewal (ouch) in July. I can see the salesman beckoning me over: "tell you what, I'll take this one in part/ex, we roll the finance over and you can drive away today in that shiny new one in the corner." And that's six hundred quid or so "saved".

Also I am not entirely sure whether the Jag was actually a carefully thought out and planned purchase in the first place...
(AgeingGeek Father of Two, Sun 24 May 2009, 11:32, closed)