$995K driveaway, no more to pay
Is this a record driveaway, no more to pay used-car price?Buying a near-new car is a tactic often followed by purchasers looking to limit initial depreciation shock. At the cost of not exactly having a brand new car, but one that looks so close as to be indiscernible from the factory-fresh product, a near-new car makes good sense, especially when it comes to trade-in time some years down the track. Pennies saved are pennies earned.
Take the following, which paraphrases an advertisement on the carsales.com.au website, as an example:
“2009 model two-door coupe with 4,900 kilometres clocked up, one owner, full service history and a driveaway, no more to pay price around 25 per cent below new.”
Drive away, no more to pay. The phrase is commonly adopted by car dealers seeking to attract buyers on limited budgets who are shopping around for the lowest possible, no-extras-attached price. And 25 per cent sounds a reasonable discount for a car with minimal kilometres, even if it was registered two calendar years ago.
But wait, there’s more.
What if the discount savings add up to – wait for it – more than $335,000?
In what is arguably the top driveaway price to feature on carsales.com.au, a Sydney dealer is advertising an as-new Rolls-Royce Phantom 3C68 coupe for the never to be repeated price of just $995,000, driveaway. Stacked up against the regular driveaway price of $1,330,485 for the Phantom coupe, this is exceedingly tempting.
The car in question is a Silver Sand example with all the hedonistic luxuries you expect from Rolls-Royce: air suspension, two massive rear-hinged doors, and a leather and wood interior that redefines the word sumptuous.
The Phantom coupe’s engine is the BMW-derived 6.75-litre V12 producing 338kW and 720Nm to satisfy the Rolls requirement that it be “adequate” and the transmission is the six-speed ZF automatic appearing across an unexpectedly proletarian range of vehicles.
As for that $330,000 saving, well, it could buy you a little something to celebrate your bargain find, like a small town house, a reasonable yacht or an Aston Martin Vantage coupe.
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