I'll start the story from the beginning. I had a 2014 '64 a3 s-line 2.0tdi but after leaving uni landed myself a pretty decent job with the company I had been an intern with. It's a well paying job on an s3 was on the cards. I visited my local dealer a month ago and was talked into test driving an RS3 as on a PCP its was do-able. However, being 23 and a clean license my insurance was still a joke. I was gutted. I'd have to wait till September 2016 to get another years no claims.
On Saturday I rang the salesman I'd been dealing with and asked with the current lead times when should I order. He said I can order at anytime and change the date of requirement. With that in mind I went along on Saturday afternoon to place my order for 2016.
Whilst sat there drinking all the free tea and coffee I could (typical northerner) the sales manager appears to say they have a cancelled customer order, he cancelled after the cut off date so the car was delivered. I again explained my predicament with my insurance and he agreed to discount the car the difference between my insurance now and with another years to claims. The spec wasn exactly was i was hoping to order but pretty much bang on. Sensing a deal was on the cards I played on the fact it's wasn't the perfect spec. In the end they let me take out their demo again to make sure it was the perfect car for me. Once I got back to cut a long story short the dealership were 4 cars short of their November targets, knowing this I went for the kill asking for a huge discount hoping we could meet in the middle somewhere and to my shock they agreed.
I had to sweat it out with VW finance Sunday as it's not normal for a 23 year old lad to want a £46k car. I didn't find out till 1pm on Monday the deal was on. I had to quickly escape from work to collect it.
I can't get over the car, the looks, sounds, feel of the alcantara steeting wheel. Anyways here it is...
On Saturday I rang the salesman I'd been dealing with and asked with the current lead times when should I order. He said I can order at anytime and change the date of requirement. With that in mind I went along on Saturday afternoon to place my order for 2016.
Whilst sat there drinking all the free tea and coffee I could (typical northerner) the sales manager appears to say they have a cancelled customer order, he cancelled after the cut off date so the car was delivered. I again explained my predicament with my insurance and he agreed to discount the car the difference between my insurance now and with another years to claims. The spec wasn exactly was i was hoping to order but pretty much bang on. Sensing a deal was on the cards I played on the fact it's wasn't the perfect spec. In the end they let me take out their demo again to make sure it was the perfect car for me. Once I got back to cut a long story short the dealership were 4 cars short of their November targets, knowing this I went for the kill asking for a huge discount hoping we could meet in the middle somewhere and to my shock they agreed.
I had to sweat it out with VW finance Sunday as it's not normal for a 23 year old lad to want a £46k car. I didn't find out till 1pm on Monday the deal was on. I had to quickly escape from work to collect it.
I can't get over the car, the looks, sounds, feel of the alcantara steeting wheel. Anyways here it is...
