Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

Perhaps their design guy has Maguras and has spent the last 3 months trying bleed them? No time for emails mate.

Seriously though that is proper shitty customer service. What was their original timeframe?

Delivery end of Oct/early Nov, from VW to them, and delivery to me early Dec.

Hence I'd have expected some sort of interaction about the design around about now.

It's the problem when demand is so high. In a nutshell they just don't need your business so they don't care. A bit like your MB main dealer experiences.

brilliant car for London

I genuinely think that it was the goal of the design. A bit like the Smart car, optimised for short journeys in urban areas with limited parking. It would certainly explain a lot of the design choices and limited range. For our use case it would not have worked for us, but they were ubiquitous when I worked in Richmond, so clearly there is a market for them.

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Wait….. You’ve spent £72k on a on a VW!?!

WTAF.

But, but, it's a DAMMIT VW, before the £Xk to get it precisely right just prior to selling it on.

The base price for a 2.0 T32 TDI LWB 4MOTION 7sp DSG Transporter is £48.5k, and that's just with an empty space in the back.

So I guess the £72k figure isn't quite as surprising as it sounds. Still - same price as two houses in Middlesbrough...

Now look at what a 204PS, 7 speed DSG, 4Motion California would cost.

Now look at what a 204PS, 7 speed DSG, 4Motion California would cost.

£75k before anyone else asks

I don’t think there is anything anyone could possibly say that would make spending £72k on a VW Transporter sound logical.

Well, the Transporter costs 48k, it’s the pop top roof and all the bike gubbins that cost ~25k

Although this does all feel increasingly academic.

Do you reckon it’s a sound investment as a future classic? Like imagine finding a perfectly preserved Westfalia split window, like a SO32, fully loaded with all the kit. Those are worth several times their purchase price adjusted for inflation now. These have potential to go the same way given the high purchase price, desirability and supply difficulty. I guess it would depend on committing to owning the thing for 30+ years and gambling that you will still be able to buy diesel.

I honestly don’t know- the future of ICE vehicles is going to be (I suspect) largely driven by emotion, for example people who will have a pristine Mk1 Golf GTi in the garage in 2055 that runs on pure methanol. Makes no sense but they do it anyway.

I’d have ordered the T7 hybrid if it was available, and part of the reason that I have fired the money gun at this one is because this specification is what second hand buyers want most- so over three years this should lose 15-20k, and maybe slightly less.

Lower powered engines and 2WD depreciate more over the same period, so your purchase price is lower but you may lose more of it, if that makes sense? Higher power 4WD sell fastest, also.

My plan (if I can call it that) is to swap the diesel T6 for an EV T7 in 3 years, and hopefully it won’t cost a great deal to make that change, given the resale value of the T6.

If, of course, they ever call
Me back

It isn't particularly logical (although the depreciation point Dammit makes above is somewhat logical if you accept the need for a brand new premium camper van in the first place).

There are so many irrational car products that it's a bit like shooting fish in a barrel. Merc- Maybach for £185k? Can't even sleep in the back of it.

gambling that you will still be able to buy diesel.

More like gambling that an EV conversion is widely available / affordable / good

I’m not sure what to do. Call them again?

Seems ridiculous to be asking that.

Are they holding any of your cash?

No, which in of itself I thought was odd- I expected to pay a deposit in August

Why not? If you want the thing they have, keep calling.

I just feel a bit silly.

Why not? If you want the thing they have, keep calling.

Only if they're not in the business of offering customer service for a really expensive purchase. I'd find it kind of offputting (in many ways, not just impoliteness) if someone I wanted to throw £10k's at couldn't even find the time to call me back.

I'd be looking at alternative options at this point. Does anyone else do the same thing?