Hi everyone,
I have been reading this forum for ages now trying to make up my mind about what car to treat myself with???
The list has got loads smaller over the last month or so, and was cemented on a Z4C 3.0Si sport. Me and the missus went around the local dealers together, usually a big mistake as the missus is not interested in cars at all, and the scene is usually the same scenario as when she drags me to the clothes shops. But on this occasion she seemed mildly interested. We went to Audi, BMW, VW, Mercedes, and an independent dealership, which are all in the same area in Portsmouth. I test drove an Audi S3 which was great if not a little boring. The missus said "Just looks like any other hatchback to me!".
I had been looking at the Z4C and lusting over JDM's beautiful example, but thought it was a little impractical, not that I cared but I thought Sarah would never agree.
But, whilst in the BMW dealers, she said "That looks nice" and pointed at a Midnight blue metallic Z4C with cream leather. When I pointed out that it was in fact a two seater she said "So's your motorbike but that didn't stop you buying it!" At this point I did need to check that this was in fact my missus so went into the normal bank security clearance questions "What is your mothers maiden name?, When is your wedding anniversary? What is your date of birth?" If only I knew the answers!!
So from that point it was full attack search for Z4C's. I have a budget of around 12K but the longer the search goes on the higher the budget will be.
There aren't any in dealers in my area for me to have a drive, the one that was at snow's wasn't ready and sold within three days and was £17K for a 56 reg with 44K miles no sat nav, extended storage etc.
So the search continues.....
I have been reading this forum for ages now trying to make up my mind about what car to treat myself with???
The list has got loads smaller over the last month or so, and was cemented on a Z4C 3.0Si sport. Me and the missus went around the local dealers together, usually a big mistake as the missus is not interested in cars at all, and the scene is usually the same scenario as when she drags me to the clothes shops. But on this occasion she seemed mildly interested. We went to Audi, BMW, VW, Mercedes, and an independent dealership, which are all in the same area in Portsmouth. I test drove an Audi S3 which was great if not a little boring. The missus said "Just looks like any other hatchback to me!".
I had been looking at the Z4C and lusting over JDM's beautiful example, but thought it was a little impractical, not that I cared but I thought Sarah would never agree.
But, whilst in the BMW dealers, she said "That looks nice" and pointed at a Midnight blue metallic Z4C with cream leather. When I pointed out that it was in fact a two seater she said "So's your motorbike but that didn't stop you buying it!" At this point I did need to check that this was in fact my missus so went into the normal bank security clearance questions "What is your mothers maiden name?, When is your wedding anniversary? What is your date of birth?" If only I knew the answers!!
So from that point it was full attack search for Z4C's. I have a budget of around 12K but the longer the search goes on the higher the budget will be.
There aren't any in dealers in my area for me to have a drive, the one that was at snow's wasn't ready and sold within three days and was £17K for a 56 reg with 44K miles no sat nav, extended storage etc.
So the search continues.....
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