Blogging now resumed as we switch to a new site and a lot has happened in 3 weeks! The urge to buy a car overcame me and I bought a Land Rover Defender last week – a diesel of course. So cute. And practical where I live out in the country – yes it has real mud from a real field. And with so many advocates locally that I ended up testing one.
The 911 is up for sale ( call me if you want to benefit from the low low price I can get from a dealer! ) and a Mini Cooper S beckons next if it goes. If it doesn’t fetch a proper price then I won’t be sad to keep it. Just unlikely to upgrade based on depreciation. But that’s not really fair – I’ve suffered far worse with other cars eg an Audi A8 that lost 28k in 12 months!
So from passionate advocate to neutral seller? Not really – still a mad fan as I have the 22 year old one to fall back on. But no longer an advocate. Ultimately the service experience has been very good, the product is brilliant. But the sales experience has resulted in the opposite result from that desired. Emotions are funny things but ignore them at your peril !
Now the Land Rover and the Mini buying experiences…. I’ll save that for tomorrow
