Results tagged “bmw” from Liverpool Echo - Driving Passion

"Friends of mine who own a Q7 report high levels of disaffection from fellow road-users, including the steely, competitive refusal to let them out at junctions that used to be known only by the drivers of box-fresh Ferraris," writes Giles Smith in the Times.
Giles is making the point with regard to the bloated proportions of the Audi 4x4. Wrong. It's the badge.

You know, in these hard times main dealers can be their own worst enemy. First a tale of two prices, the one discussed to sell a car and the one representing reality.
Let me explain. A friend bought an new Audi TT four years ago and the sale swung on the promise that if the car was traded in at the same outlet in four years they would assure a value of over half the original price, 'not like those BMWs.'
My mate licked his beloved Audi clean once a week and kept his mileage low. At the weekend he went back to the same Audi dealer to chop it for an A3. Guess what? Much sucking of air through teeth, difficult climate sir, South Osetia, Hurricane Gustav, global warming, that man Darling....only worth a third of its original value I'm afraid...
Deciding, and saying as much, that he did not like being lied to when he bought the car my friend now owns a BMW 1 Series. The BMW garage gave him well over half the Audi's original value.
Tale number two involves a woman who took her VW into a Manchester dealer for its first MOT. All hunky dory except the headlights were off target. £30 each to reset, please.
That alone is a joke, but what happened next was simply hilarious.
She decided to involve a mechanic friend. Who got into the driver's seat and moved the dashboard adjuster from three back to zero. This is a handy tool for carrying heavy loads... just make sure your dealer knows his cars come fitted with it. Dipsticks.

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What’s in a badge? More than a happy car owner like yourself may realise until you come to sell up.