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When it's a hybrid apparently....
As mentioned on here many times, I am a 7 seat car owner due to kids and dogs etc.
Our current 7 seater is a JLR Discovery Sport. It does the job well, but lacks reliability.
I bought it on PCP 4 years ago as I didn't want to own outright a diesel car because back in 2019 there was much talk of diesels being a target for tax etc.
So - 4 years on and on May 1st it's time to close out the PCP deal. My balloon payment is 19k and the car is currently selling for around 26-27k so my plan was always likely to be to pay the 19k and own the car outright so I could then use that 26-27k "asset" to buy something else.
Anyway - Yesterday the sales guy from JLR called me to say that he wanted to see if he could tempt me to renew the PCP for a new JLR Discovery Sport. "Just roll the payments on sir, and pick up a new car!"
He started by asking what I was looking for in a new car - so I said, well it's basically my 7 seat family/dog car, so that
It went a bit quiet......
"Oh". He said.
"What?" I said.
"That 7 seat issue is big for you is it?"
"Yes" I said.
Turns out that the only Discovery Sports being made by JLR currently (due to reduced manufacturing capacity) is the hybrid engined version.
And guess where the battery goes for the hybrid? Yep - It goes where the 3rd row footwell should be so the hybrid JLR Discovery Sport "7 Seater" is in fact a 5 seater.
So it's lucky really that I do want to cash out my PCP, because there's no 7 seaters in the JLR range currently for me to replace mine with..... Apparently they won't be building many non-hybrid cars for the foreseeable future.
As mentioned on here many times, I am a 7 seat car owner due to kids and dogs etc.
Our current 7 seater is a JLR Discovery Sport. It does the job well, but lacks reliability.
I bought it on PCP 4 years ago as I didn't want to own outright a diesel car because back in 2019 there was much talk of diesels being a target for tax etc.
So - 4 years on and on May 1st it's time to close out the PCP deal. My balloon payment is 19k and the car is currently selling for around 26-27k so my plan was always likely to be to pay the 19k and own the car outright so I could then use that 26-27k "asset" to buy something else.
Anyway - Yesterday the sales guy from JLR called me to say that he wanted to see if he could tempt me to renew the PCP for a new JLR Discovery Sport. "Just roll the payments on sir, and pick up a new car!"
He started by asking what I was looking for in a new car - so I said, well it's basically my 7 seat family/dog car, so that
It went a bit quiet......
"Oh". He said.
"What?" I said.
"That 7 seat issue is big for you is it?"
"Yes" I said.
Turns out that the only Discovery Sports being made by JLR currently (due to reduced manufacturing capacity) is the hybrid engined version.
And guess where the battery goes for the hybrid? Yep - It goes where the 3rd row footwell should be so the hybrid JLR Discovery Sport "7 Seater" is in fact a 5 seater.
So it's lucky really that I do want to cash out my PCP, because there's no 7 seaters in the JLR range currently for me to replace mine with..... Apparently they won't be building many non-hybrid cars for the foreseeable future.
