graeme4130 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 04, 2018 7:39 pm
RS4LAD wrote: ↑Sun Feb 04, 2018 5:35 pm
Pricing on these are absolutely horrendous when you can get into an rs6 for the same money! They need to offer much better deals to get these sold or they’ll sit there like the new rs5’s.
That's not a great comparison though as the RS6 is about to be replaced and production has stopped, so they're clearing out dealer and network stock, which is why they're so cheap right now.
The RS4 is brand new, and people always like to go for a brand new model
The big issue here is the options. As previously mentioned, my B8 in Jan 2015 had a list of £62k new. From that £62k, £5k was options. To spec a B9 in exactly the same way today I would need £10k of options (a 100% increase!), and that takes the OTR cost of the B9 to £72k, another ten thousand pounds.
Nobody can justify that sort of increase. The cost of the options are obscene, especially when you compare it to other manufacturers. Show me a BMW or MB where to go up 1" in wheels size costs £2k, or £2k for adaptive suspension. Then look at their own options, £1250 for ACC which was free on our Golf! £950 for carbon inlays that used to be standard/free. then their new way of only seeing options in packs, so if you want B&O you have to spend £1300 on a pack.
Audi are taking the piss with their pricing. It started with the SQ7, and is now manifesting itself through all the new cars.
Each to their own, but I can't quite get my head around how anybody can rationally sit there and say, "
£75k for an A4 estate, that's reasonable, I'm going to buy one". Not unless that person is in the fortunate position of not having to worry about money.