Guys, I'm really sorry...this is a new car thread
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GransportFan1
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Not bad for an M3.
Palmball
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Thanks every - I appreciate your tolerance 
Dem....what is Adam on huh? We all know the M3 is the best small sports saloon out there
Dem....what is Adam on huh? We all know the M3 is the best small sports saloon out there
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Enjoy! I'm in Hamburg currently and the sheer volume of customized high-end German sports cars here makes me wonder whether we in the UK lack 'passion' about German marques only because we are a little slanted in our viewpoints.
Returning to the depreciation issue, let's not forget that mileage has a massive impact on this too, more so with Maseratis perhaps than with some other marques. I do around 16-18K miles a year on my travels, if I were to use a Maser as a daily driver then my car would depreciate much more over 18 months than someone who bought an identical new/pre-owned car at the same time but just uses it for weekends.
Common sense I know, but worth pointing out nonetheless since it hasn''t been given much prominence in this thread so far.
Returning to the depreciation issue, let's not forget that mileage has a massive impact on this too, more so with Maseratis perhaps than with some other marques. I do around 16-18K miles a year on my travels, if I were to use a Maser as a daily driver then my car would depreciate much more over 18 months than someone who bought an identical new/pre-owned car at the same time but just uses it for weekends.
Common sense I know, but worth pointing out nonetheless since it hasn''t been given much prominence in this thread so far.
Thanks every - I appreciate your tolerance
Dem....what is Adam on huh? We all know the M3 is the best small sports saloon out there
Kids hey andrew.....
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Yes, thanks for highlighting this MS because my decision really was pushed in the main by this one aspect (which I tried to make clear in my posts but maybe didn't get the message across succinctly enough).
It came down to a combination of knowing for a fact that my GT-S would have had in the region of 30k miles on the clock by December....and there are practically no others about with that kind of mileage and it's unlikely there would have been by the end of the year. I saw my £69k purchase price reduced to a £58k sale last week....that would have been easily been under £50k as a trade-in or sale to a trader with 30k+ miles on it and I wasn't prepared to lose anymore.
On top of this, I was also faced with having to pay £2.5k for a years warranty in 6 weeks so I can add that cost onto £20k's worth of depreciation...it didn't make sense. I wasn't going to have this car without a warranty - too many things were going wrong to take that risk....you may not know all of this but in the time I had the car I both sections of the exhaust, new door seals, new instrument panel, two new rear tail lights, new power steering pump, a new passenger door trim and one for the rear trims fixed under warranty. Now, I know I'm fussy and a lot of people may not have noticed the heavier steering or the rattling exhaust but this was an expensive car so I expected perfection and to have this in 5 months ownership....would you risk having the car outside of warranty with no back-up?
If I could have kept my mileage down to 10k pa like I was doing when I bought it then none of this would have been an issue and I'd have kept it for probably a year but I had to make a decision on hard financial facts. The fact that when I drove the M3 it instantly felt more up to the job as a daily driver sealed the Maserati's fate (this is not meant to be a derogatory comment about the GT-S and it's not really designed to be heavily used, 3-series BMW's are....although I have to admit that it really grates with me that a £100k car can't cope with being driven as well as one half it's price).
Now, I know the BMW will depreciate too but at the price I bought it for (and one of the reasons I chose the M3 was because of the stonking deal on it... £17k off list and cheap finance at the same time), I won't be losing £10k in the next 4-5 months....looking at prices of 12-18 month-old examples, I'll probably get this period out of it before suffering another £10k's worth of depreciation. It is an irrelevant point though....I won't have it in 18 months
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Hmm, disturbing to hear about those issues. Not acceptable on a 20K car, let alone a 100K car. My Kia, which incidentally cost me 4.5K new (govt scrappage deal - thx!) has had no issues whatsover in two years of hard driving. (And I mean wringing its neck: redlining it regularly at illegal speeds - 78 and sometimes 79mph).
Kias are good cars.....now 7 year warranty
I expect a car like yours at 4500k to still be running right after 2 years and not have niggly bits.....theres no such thing as a bad manufacturer nowadays so maserati at 100k need some german to do the quality control for them
I expect a car like yours at 4500k to still be running right after 2 years and not have niggly bits.....theres no such thing as a bad manufacturer nowadays so maserati at 100k need some german to do the quality control for them
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Absolutely, but, as Hammond alluded to last night, they seem to have lost the raw edge that made them what they were. Ze Chermans have polished off the rough edges and made it a better car but seem to have compromised the Lamborghini character in the process. Let's hope Chrysler don't remove the Maserati character especially by using a V6 and American styling.