Daly drive.

Andyk

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Steve GS said:
So as the title suggests my wife is looking for a new daly drive. She is looking at the jag xe. For around £25k. I say put another £5 k to the budget. And get a Ghibli with about 30 k on the clock a slightly bigger car yes but I think a better car for the extra money. Some opinions would be great and anyone that's had both comparisons please.
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I can only comment on the XE as I have one that I've done 18k in within 6 months of owning. I love it. I felt far more sporty than any of the competition and the handling is spot on. The interior is a lovely place to be compared to the competition and it's a lively thing to look at in the right spec and colour. I get comments about how pretty it is all the time which I wouldn't if I had bought a BMW, Merc or Audi. The dealer I deal with is excellent and the car has been faultless. The build quality is still not German quality but still pretty good. Hard to say if the Ghibli would be a better choice as not owned one but it's a 5 series rival where as this XE is a 3 series. I will say when I say in the Ghibli at Dick Lovetts and then got back in the XE I didn't feel short changed. If you get an R Sport version you get all the dash in stitches leather as well. If you are going diesel which is what I have go for the 190 higher powered one as the 168 I think it is felt a bit weak. I also have manual not the auto as found the auto box a little sluggish. I would also probably think the XE would be cheaper to run as a daily drive than the Ghibli.


I wanted mine to look sporty so went for the R Sport version in Italian Racing red, 19 inch Venmon Alloys and black pack grill. Everything else was standard.
 

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XE for sure, I drove the Diesel at the launch and loved it. Been in Andy's and seen him hustle it :D
 
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From behind it remember right Phil That was good fun buddy .... look forward to another ride in yours if we make Llandow happen.
 
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Whilst a 190bhp XE might feel sporty, a 313bhp 335D is probably a bit sportier. The 8 speed Auto gearbox, in sport, is an absolute peach and the 4 wheel drive really does stick you to the road. The only downside so far are the run flat tyres, which are f*cking dreadful. BM for sure.
 
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Really all depends what your good lady is looking for ... Get out and drive and see what suits.
 
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I don't think Maserati residuals are any better are they?
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The petrol Ghibli residuals are much better. If I've said it once, i have a million times. If you want a Ghibli, buy a petrol one. It will do upper 20s mpg and is a much better car than the diesel. Any perceived saving on fuel will easily be regained by the residual values. Cheapest diesel in the UK, 26k, cheapest petrol 36k.
 
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outrun said:
The petrol Ghibli residuals are much better. If I've said it once, i have a million times. If you want a Ghibli, buy a petrol one. It will do upper 20s mpg and is a much better car than the diesel. Any perceived saving on fuel will easily be regained by the residual values. Cheapest diesel in the UK, 26k, cheapest petrol 36k.
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Few things there though, the cheapest diesel Ghibli has (or had when I looked) 60k miles on. I'm guessing the cheaper petrol didn't! Also the petrol is 5k more new isn't it?

I would have loved the petrol but fuel costs meant it was a no go
 
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BennyD said:
Whilst a 190bhp XE might feel sporty, a 313bhp 335D is probably a bit sportier. The 8 speed Auto gearbox, in sport, is an absolute peach and the 4 wheel drive really does stick you to the road. The only downside so far are the run flat tyres, which are f*cking dreadful. BM for sure.
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Great cars, a very good friend of mine has one that I sourced for him, his is a 430D X Drive M Sport, properly quick, pretty (for a Beemer) and residuals aren't bad either. He bought with 3k on the clock and got £18k off list.
 
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outrun said:
The petrol Ghibli residuals are much better. If I've said it once, i have a million times. If you want a Ghibli, buy a petrol one. It will do upper 20s mpg and is a much better car than the diesel. Any perceived saving on fuel will easily be regained by the residual values. Cheapest diesel in the UK, 26k, cheapest petrol 36k.
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As you and I have discussed, just people don't like to see 25mpg on their dash, they'd rather see 35mpg even though it lost £50 in value while they were asleep.
 
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Great cars, a very good friend of mine has one that I sourced for him, his is a 430D X Drive M Sport, properly quick, pretty (for a Beemer) and residuals aren't bad either. He bought with 3k on the clock and got £18k off list.
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I've never understood this. How can residuals be good yet he got £18k off list?
 
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The residual is pretty good in that he paid £31k for it and 18 months and 20000 miles later it's still worth £25k.
 
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Probably because she wants it to be worth more than £2.50 in three years time.......

Sorry couldn't resist it....but joking aside I hope this is the car that bucks the tend for Alfa residuals...It has the looks, performance and better quality and is a drivers car but the one thing that needs to improve is the dealer network and after sales. I when I was going to the main Alfa dealers a few years back now I found them very good but they were stand alone....Now that most are under one roof with Fiat it seems to have for worse.
 
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dickygrace said:
The residual is pretty good in that he paid £31k for it and 18 months and 20000 miles later it's still worth £25k.
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I see that. But that car (Aside from what your mate paid for it) has gone from £49k to £25k in 2 years.
 
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I see that. But that car (Aside from what your mate paid for it) has gone from £49k to £25k in 2 years.
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That's why iy never pays to buy new, wait until it has hit that initial 20% drop in under 5k miles then pounce!
 
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If that's real, that was probably caused by too much speed on too tight a bend.
 
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You'd think there would be a couple of rubber tracks left on the road! Unless it was parked and the EPB failed :whistle:
 
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