Completely agree !!! Must say price of diesel has been incredibly cheap, compared to January 2014. Co-worker of mine was driving brand new Cummings 3500 crew cab. If I recall diesel was north of $1.40/L.... Sobering thought....LOL, me too felt good !
I was wondering... Jag F-PACE with 2.0 Diesel starts at 50K, with all options in can go up to 53K or so, before tax . It just won the Car of The Year 2017 award, it looks pretty good , at least in pictures
/100 highway, well that is a no go WAYY out of our league price-wise. Although my wife can afford it (it's her wagon we're replacing), there's NO WAY she would ever spent $50 Large on a vehicle unless absolutely necessary, and then she'd want it to last the rest of her life.I was wondering... Jag F-PACE with 2.0 Diesel starts at 50K, with all options in can go up to 53K or so, before tax . It just won the Car of The Year 2017 award, it looks pretty good , at least in pictures
VW Atlas seems overpriced, underpowered with 2.0 gas, and an optional 3.6 engine with 13l/100km town and 10l
Anyone considers Jag F-pace option when this VW fiasco is over ?
On same note, any news about Benz GLC 300d , will it be available in the near/distant future ?
Cheers !
Re TSI, I could not agree with you more. However, between an Atlas and F-Pace Diesel, I am not sure if Atlas would be my choice. Let's wait how this fiasco ends and everyone will decide later, keep, trade-in, or get $$ and move on to another manufacturer
Well if you really need an SUV (in my mind that means you need to tow something), then a diesel is what you need for towing. So I'd go F-pace or any of the other diesel SUVs out there (e.g. Mercedes).
Have you tried ordering a new diesel Mercedes lately? Not available!! Only used.
Correct ! And we can say "Thank you VW!" for screwing up Diesel market in NA.
And yet apparently so far apart.
I'd be very wary of this dealership. Also, one thing that keeps coming up in my mind is that when the Judge asked VW counsel " How soon would you be able to start rolling out the settlement program, and have class members register for benefits to make a claim ? VW's lawyers/counsel replied by saying " we would be ready and have something in place by April 28,2017. "
Agreed. I had a few bad experiences at this dealership some years back and haven't been back. I tried to explain this to my friend, and he replied by saying he called other dealers and they're all confirming the same thing. I think he's almost in a bit of denial himself, wanting to believe that it's all done and they're going to start the process in late April.
The next couple of weeks are going to be interesting, that's for sure.
I've been looking at an EV as well for a while now. Although the e-Golf looks nice and has decent performance specs for an EV, It doesn't match the Chevy Bolt. The Bolt has double the range, with its 60Kwh battery, and more power, for almost the same price point.
While I do agree with you, I'd have to say that the interior quality of the Gold is much nicer than the Bolt. Just my opinion anyway.
I think I'm going to look at the Audi Etron sportsback but it's only PHEV and the battery is just big enough to get the $8k grant.
I drove the e-tron a few times one year ago. Nearly purchased one as well. I liked it quite a bit. Nice option with the incentive in ontario too.
I'd much rather have the Golf too, but unfortunately the 200 km range is a deal-buster for me. At 350-400 km, I'd buy one for my next car. The problem is that Montreal is exactly 100 km away and I need to be able to get there and back on a single, umm, "tank", plus do some driving around the city. Unless I take my bike and find one of Montreal's plug-in stations, park the car, plug it in, and take my bike for whatever errands I have to do in the city. As an avid cyclist that appeals to me... except in winter. At 350 km I'd have enough of a cushion for bad winter weather, and unavailability of a charging station.
I have replacement cost insurance on our Golf wagon; it's a 2013 bought Dec. 4th 2012. I bought a 5 year policy, so if the deal doesn't come through before December 4th when it expires we'll have to park our wagon and perhaps borrow our very tired B5.5 Passat TDI back from our son for local trips (I no longer trust it for big drives).