New car

[ShockDiamonds]

This one was £31k or something like that RRP, sold for just over £28k.

[Broccers]

Spendy for a mini innit.

[Carlos]

Yes the thing is mini size is a bit like a golf now. Our r55 with 220 ish bhp is quite fast enough and fun.

How much is one on these with options? High 20s?

Same size as a Golf, same price as a Golf.

[Simon]

Yes the thing is mini size is a bit like a golf now. Our r55 with 220 ish bhp is quite fast enough and fun.

How much is one on these with options? High 20s?

Same size as a Golf, same price as a Golf.

Is it though? Really? I remember the back of the Mk7/7.5 Golf as a reasonably decent place to sit. Can't imagine there's the same room in a Mini.

[ShockDiamonds]

Our daughter is 10 and just under 5 ft tall and sits ok in the back with plenty of room, but by the time she gets to 13 or 14 we’ll be moving on I suspect.

[Rich B]

Our daughter is 10 and just under 5 ft tall and sits ok in the back with plenty of room, but by the time she gets to 13 or 14 we’ll be moving on I suspect.

i trust you've gone for a 5 year finance deal with hefty penalty clauses for stopping it early then?

[Broccers]

Yes the thing is mini size is a bit like a golf now. Our r55 with 220 ish bhp is quite fast enough and fun.

How much is one on these with options? High 20s?

Same size as a Golf, same price as a Golf.

Is it though? Really? I remember the back of the Mk7/7.5 Golf as a reasonably decent place to sit. Can't imagine there's the same room in a Mini.

Same height and width but slightly shorter. Certainly not small.

[drcarlos]

Our daughter is 10 and just under 5 ft tall and sits ok in the back with plenty of room, but by the time she gets to 13 or 14 we’ll be moving on I suspect.

i trust you've gone for a 5 year finance deal with hefty penalty clauses for stopping it early then?

Oof! Spicy.

SD - Does it mean the Panamera is going now and you are downsizing a bit?

[ShockDiamonds]

Panamera still here, actually had a few people look at it in recent weeks but time wasters ultimately. It goes back to Porsche at the end of the year (PCP ending).

That dull thud you’ve just heard is Rich falling off his chair.

Will probably take it off sale soon as I’ve had enough of dealing with muppets. Most of them don’t even know what they were allegedly buying.

[JonMad]

Panamera still here, actually had a few people look at it in recent weeks but time wasters ultimately. It goes back to Porsche at the end of the year (PCP ending).

That dull thud you’ve just heard is Rich falling off his chair.

Will probably take it off sale soon as I’ve had enough of dealing with muppets. Most of them don’t even know what they were allegedly buying.

How much higher than the balloon payment have you got it up for? I guess it'd be worth selling at anything above that if you're otherwise just going to give it back?

[Rich B]

That dull thud you’ve just heard is Rich falling off his chair.

[ShockDiamonds]

Panamera still here, actually had a few people look at it in recent weeks but time wasters ultimately. It goes back to Porsche at the end of the year (PCP ending).

That dull thud you’ve just heard is Rich falling off his chair.

Will probably take it off sale soon as I’ve had enough of dealing with muppets. Most of them don’t even know what they were allegedly buying.

How much higher than the balloon payment have you got it up for? I guess it'd be worth selling at anything above that if you're otherwise just going to give it back?

Exactly. But truth is even though it’s a hybrid and they’re supposed to be getting more popular, the market has woken up to these Panameras and whilst £28k to £29k is supposed to be the going rate and sees me a little in the black, I suspect most people just take the £23k or whatever trade in value as what they’re actually worth and walk off, despite the Porsche warranty. Dunno, haven’t sold a car privately in years and won’t again, too much aggro in the end, although my leg hasn’t helped

[integrale_evo]

Have you put the reg into We buy any car to see what they’d give?

Seems to be a lot of private buyers also use it as a valuation tool and expect to buy stuff at trade prices.

[ShockDiamonds]

I haven’t, no. May do that later although needing to give them my mobile number sucks a bit.

[Mito Man]

Put it in, let their offer expire, wait a week and they’ll make a new offer £500-£1000 more.

[ShockDiamonds]

Harry was right - £23.5k

[JonMad]

Seems to be a lot of private buyers also use it as a valuation tool and expect to buy stuff at trade prices.

Certainly use it to compare to asking prices.

[Matty]

Don't like that jutting chin, looks tacked on - and the track is way to narrow. Colour looks great to me though.

And as the owner of a car with deck chair seats, those chairs look great.

[ShockDiamonds]

Currently sat outside having a cigar and sat behind the car and it does indeed look a little high at least from the rear. No plans to go modding crazy but I’m surprised there appears to be nothing on the Mini website along the lines of the various cosmetic but also mechanical changes you can make to BMWs for example. Given the work Lohen do on these things I’d have expected something.