Conversation Between ChiTownM and Carac
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02-19-2015 07:23 PM
Carac
I sold my '12 Range Rover Sport Supercharged right before buying the i8 and have missed it ever since. Dealer called me a couple weeks ago and said their SVR order was open, did I want it. It's a RRS with the F-Type R Coupe engine, transmission, exhaust, etc. and currently holds the production lap time record for SUVs at the 'Ring. Best of all they are limiting sales of SVRs to 400/year worldwide and promising not to increase it. Everytime BMW does something that brings me back, they do something else to undermine it.
I was enjoying my i8 (4k miles in two months) with the comfort of knowledge knowing residuals would make mileage largely irrelevant since buyers would have the choice of a car with a couple thousand miles or no car period...but now they are flooding the market with as many as they can. Then there was the i8s, M8 announcement a couple days before I even bought the i8. I will miss the car but it's not the special, rare snowflake they made it out to be at the beginning.
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What other car will you get and are you planning on trading the i8 in? I am struggling with the same, wondering about future value of these cars. I ant to maximize my residual also, not happy about BMWs decision to expand production to satisfy demand. Not what I had expected...