another thing, if you are creating an ad on say, Cars and Bids, or Autotrader, like I did, the stupid algorithm tells you that, at $80k you are in the low range of the asking price. Well, fine. Asking. They give you no sales info or time on market. The guys on Autotrader, especially, with their 2014s in the 100k range are simply high on crack. I bet they sit on their for months, as the repos pile up, the recession really sets in and things go even further south.
A) "'Ring" times for SUVs is just wrong. Next thing, they'll race tanks around there and think it means anything.
B) If you traded an i8 for an SUV, then that's what you deserve
C) As I said in the other thread, that "limited edition" obsession on new cars is silly. But the marketing guys, who's salaries you're paying, will be bery happy that their scam worked
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.