Sold my car today, put down a deposit on this...

[identti]

Sold my KA for £300 less than I got it two years and 21,000 miles ago

Here's what we put down a deposit on today, and had a funny conversation with the dealer:







Conversation goes:
Dealer: "I'll just go and talk to the Manager and see what's the best price we can offer you.
Me: "Ok."
Dealer, comes back: "Ok sir, we can do the car for £8695 on the road with 6 month's tax."
Me: "That's interesting, because I have an email from Usman (the other salesman) offering it at £7995 otr."
Dealer: "Oh, are you sure about that."
Me: "He sent me an email, which I can show you on my phone."
Dealer: " , I better go and talk to the Manager."
Manager to dealer: "...blah, blah, blah, Usman's gonna get shot on Monday."

Nice to sell my car and get a good price for the car on my Birthday

[john_r]

Excellent news!

Assume you'll be coming to Wales with us in the New Year then!!

Hazel had a Suzuki for years and years and it was unbelievably reliable and took a lot of abuse in it's time too! Apart from servicing & consumables the only thing that ever needed replacing was a driving light bulb in 6 years and 60k miles.

[xllifts]

Well done Robbie, very nice pocket rocket,
Happy Birthday

[Revs_Addiction]

Nice one robbie! Cool car- look forward to seeing it on a hoon soon!

And happy birthday !!!

[john_r]

Ooh, look... you're not done spending yet!

http://www.millteksport.com/media.file.cfm?fileid=...

[MonkeyBusiness]

I do like those Swifts.
Nice colour.

[identti]

Thanks for all the messages.

And John, you are a bad influence, although I've already had a look at them myself. If it doesn't invalidate the warranty and insurance are OK with it then it might be an option next year.

And defiantly coming to Wales with this bad boy next year

[VerySideways]

Congrats, and happy birthday!

[john_r]

I assume you've seen this site then...

http://www.envyperformance.com/swift/index.cfm

[Revs_Addiction]

john_r said:

I assume you've seen this site then...

http://www.envyperformance.com/swift/index.cfm

John you're a bad man!!!

[ph1l5]

Wicked little car matey. Happy Birthday.

[identti]

Revs_Addiction said:

john_r said:

I assume you've seen this site then...

http://www.envyperformance.com/swift/index.cfm

John you're a bad man!!!

He is. Luckily the insurance company wouldn't touch me with a barge pole if I got this:

http://www.envyperformance.com/swift/index.cfm?fus...

[Turbofun]

Well done Robbie !
Looking forward for you to lead the way on the next drive

[MadDad]

Great little car, I had one for a week last year when our family bus went into the garage - huge fun for such a small bundle!!

Enjoy!

[John D.]

Nice one Robbie They're great cars from what I read, proper little hot hatch. Look forward to seeing what its made of!

[identti]

Yeah I don't have much of an idea if it's quick enough, although this run in example felt quicker than the one with 50 miles I drove.

[AngryS3Owner]

Cool car, bet you can't wait

[identti]

AngryS3Owner said:

Cool car, bet you can't wait

Too right, although I want to wait a couple of weeks before hooning it to get acclimatised. It may be a little out of puff on the longer straights but it seemed to corner flat and fast.

I'm gonna have to try very hard to keep the mpg in the 30s for the first few weeks (I know that sounds high to you lot with your turbos and V8s, but the KA was doing 50mpg).

[AngryS3Owner]

Well if it's any help mines dropped from a long term average of over 26 to somewhere around 23 since the remap and managed 9 around Spa

[John D.]

Petrols getting cheaper now anyway