Ford price Rise

[Big_G]

Woah at todays prices my car is £4000 more than it was in Dec 15, i paid £29885.
If you take that as straight up appreciation in value (which i know you can't, so just hypothetically) its gained £307 a month in 13 month.

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[Gibbo205]

If you add that lot up and add reversing beepers and a paint colour it comes to £47,460. (Never mind digi dash) Too rich for me.

Pure guess work, we have no idea in reality what options we will get and what they will cost.

Buts its fair to say a full spec car will be 44-46kg VS the 40-42k they are now. For me 5k is worth it, power, suspension, digital dash etc. Most owners spend at least that anyway sorting the stock car because current generation has a lot of shortcomings.

Then people like 666mac spend more than the car cost on modifications.

 

[17ANG]

Even at £80 an hour (fords general price...), if it takes two hours to fit and track the new springs, £300 isn't a bad price! Shame it's 5.0 only! Could probably get a hefty discount off the 'Install price' if you buy them 'with' the car so it's done before pickup.

Herpa Stripes as well, finally doing full stripes from stock... Bit annoyed the picture of the boot liner SHOWS RED TAIL LIGHTS (W4NKERS!)

The pricelist says Dealer Supplied so it'll be dealer fitted also i'd say. I'd also reckon they'd be classed as a mod for insurance purposes as they're not part of a standard build. The pricelist also states that they're not covered by the Ford warranty.



Lowers by around an inch all round. This is mine on Pro Kit and 25/23 spacers.

That looks great!!:coolphotos:

I'm going to ask my dealer if they can include the lowering kit for my April delivery... let's see what they say. I would expect them to be fitted (and tracking done) for £145, I don't think they'd get away with charging £308.01 for the herpa stripes in a cardboard tube unfitted! :shrug:

 

[Gloucesternige]

A whole £600 more than I paid less than a month ago!!

I wish i could spec the Recaros in my '17

 

[Cati]

I went to look at the Alfa quatrospagio today. Alfa put 3k on the list price on Monday so specked up to a reasonable level is 66k way to rich for a daily with a Ferrari engine that might go bang expensively . Nice car but a bit iffy on the plastics ... so still dreaming gt3 or gt350 seems more sense in the long run

 

[marks]

66k for a Alfa :lol: You could get an M4 or Cayman and still have change, and they throw in a stick shift for nothing.

 

[Gloucesternige]

I went to look at the Alfa quatrospagio today. Alfa put 3k on the list price on Monday so specked up to a reasonable level is 66k

£3k in one hit!! Robbery!!

 

[Gibbo205]

66k for a Alfa :lol: You could get an M4 or Cayman and still have change, and they throw in a stick shift for nothing.

I'd risk it and take the Alfa over the M4 everytime, that Alfa is gorgeous and looks to drive real nice on UK roads. Having driven an M4, what a let down! :(

Cayman drives best, but lacks power of the Alfa, ah fuck it, buy Mustang, 30k change and sounds better than all of them, looks better too!

 

[Cati]

I'd risk it and take the Alfa over the M4 everytime, that Alfa is gorgeous and looks to drive real nice on UK roads. Having driven an M4, what a let down! :(

Cayman drives best, but lacks power of the Alfa, ah fuck it, buy Mustang, 30k change and sounds better than all of them, looks better too!

M4 are shedding value like you would not believe - they are going to be a cheap motor in the future. Alfa was good. some build quality issues - switches feel way cheap and some of the connectors under the hood don't give much hope of lasting - so most certainly electrical problems down the road. It looked like manders had wired up the front magnetic suspension, it is knocking on AMG money and ferrari engines are not known as high milers - so residuals are going to be soft. I was looking to rationalise and chop the M3 in and perhaps let go of the mustang. So I think I will wait a little get a house sorted as the market looks like it is going to go soft this year especially if the banks start moving staff to paris and then take stock of the car situation later.

I thought about the new mustang - but realistically you are looking at least 20k to change for magnaride, clocks, funny front end 10 speed auto etc. plus the mod budget and that makes it a 50k plus car all day long so that really does not appeal, at least for a ford mustang and I am a life long fan.. it kind of looses the ethos of simplicity and cheapness. now if it was a GT350 for 50 plus I would be in like flynn.

 

[Gibbo205]

M4 are shedding value like you would not believe - they are going to be a cheap motor in the future. Alfa was good. some build quality issues - switches feel way cheap and some of the connectors under the hood don't give much hope of lasting - so most certainly electrical problems down the road. It looked like manders had wired up the front magnetic suspension, it is knocking on AMG money and ferrari engines are not known as high milers - so residuals are going to be soft. I was looking to rationalise and chop the M3 in and perhaps let go of the mustang. So I think I will wait a little get a house sorted as the market looks like it is going to go soft this year especially if the banks start moving staff to paris and then take stock of the car situation later.

I thought about the new mustang - but realistically you are looking at least 20k to change for magnaride, clocks, funny front end 10 speed auto etc. plus the mod budget and that makes it a 50k plus car all day long so that really does not appeal, at least for a ford mustang and I am a life long fan.. it kind of looses the ethos of simplicity and cheapness. now if it was a GT350 for 50 plus I would be in like flynn.

Not surprised the E9x and E46 M3 are better, handle better and sound way better. M4 has more toys but they sound junk and the handling really is not great and the torque from the turbo makes it really hard to put power down in wet conditions. For me I found it more annoying than fun, quick in a straight line though.

 

[Cati]

Not surprised the E9x and E46 M3 are better, handle better and sound way better. M4 has more toys but they sound junk and the handling really is not great and the torque from the turbo makes it really hard to put power down in wet conditions. For me I found it more annoying than fun, quick in a straight line though.

Heard of three guys now that are in finance situations with M4 and cannot get out from under it - lost over 50% of launch price in what two years?

 

[Jimboy2]

Heard of three guys now that are in finance situations with M4 and cannot get out from under it - lost over 50% of launch price in what two years?

WOW! That was my worry with the Mustang everyone told me I was making a financial mistake! :lol:

 

[marks]

Not surprised the E9x and E46 M3 are better, handle better and sound way better. M4 has more toys but they sound junk and the handling really is not great and the torque from the turbo makes it really hard to put power down in wet conditions. For me I found it more annoying than fun, quick in a straight line though.

I agree but you get my drift!

 

[Gibbo205]

Heard of three guys now that are in finance situations with M4 and cannot get out from under it - lost over 50% of launch price in what two years?

No idea, never liked the idea of it as M cars were always about their engines and sublime chassis.

E46 had the S54 high revving race inspired straight 6 that made more than 100HP per litre. With a chassis to die for and they were the exact perfect size for UK roads, looked great but not too big. Then CSL came along, a car that drove even better on the road and 10 years ago did a 7:50 lap, something even sports cars today cannot manage unless pushing big power and fancy gearboxes and differentials. The E46 was a real shining point for BMW, only downsides were really rather crappy sounding at anything other than full chat, though some people liked the tinny rasp. I am so glad I got to own an M3 CSL, my mistake was selling it. Hence why I have the one I have now with CSL conversion and a lot more on top.

Then we got E9x M3, in some ways an even more special engine, full fat S65vV8 with even higher redline that sounded totally awesome with the stock exhaust modified slightly. Also rather potent in straight lines and though not quite the master piece in handling the E46 was, it was still damn good and from that car came the E9x GTS, my friend had one, 130k of M car and what a disaster on the road that was, incredible on track though, but he shortly god rid, he has had every M car and he still says the best was the E46 M3 CSL.

Now we get this new M3/M4, first let down is the engine, sounds totally wet, they then map the engine to deliver loads of torque and boost low down which makes its aweful to drive in a quick smooth fashion, even in the dry it breaks traction on accelerating from an apex, in the wet its a damn right handful. Its only real savior which becomes boring very quick is it is quick in a straight line with the DCT gear box with a 0-100mph in sub 8s, but its boring, almost too GTR like for easy acceleration in straight lines but with none of the GTR's handling ability.

BMW big let down, M2 is their best current car I feel and even then I'd not want one. It one reason why I won't part with my E46, nothing handles better than it, admittedly its far from stock but still, to go beyond it I'd need a Cayman GT4 or 911 GT3 which are at the moment too expensive unless I wanna get myself a load of finance, and no thank you to that.

 

[NornIron91]

Ford if you would like to keep putting the price up that would be great
My spec is about £2500 more than what I paid 6 months ago.

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