BMW i4

Taking the p1ss not including it on a €80k car. It was standard 6 years ago on a €25k Hyundai EV. Plus autosteer. I guess that is another €1000+ upgrade too?

Then again, why wouldn't they if they can get away with it. Maximising profit is (or should be) the goal of every company.

I think BMW have found out that pricing the high end i4 close to Taycan and the low end tens of thousands over other makes is not sustainable. Seeing how the bottom end of the price range of the competition has now moved further down I reckon some people had a lucky escape for rejecting their forced 222 registration Beemers.

Yeah e40s with m50 prices 🤢

Picked up the car from Joe Duffy last night. Jesus its beautiful to look at and drive, still pinching myself :)

A big step up from the 330e both in terms of performance, technology and refinement.

Congrats, similar upgrade for me.

However in terms of power I found the e40 the same as the 330e in sports mode, think the 330e is 0.2s faster to 100 on paper.

I did see they have a demo M50 in FK the other day so... 😁

There's an option buried in the settings, I think it's under doors/windows/tailgate.

Will check when in the car later today.

Yep, thats me, actually had 4 Gti's over the years, and loved them all :)

I actually got a great trade-in on the 330e, wont put out any figures but I lost virtually nothing over the last 2 years. That's basically how I justified the jump to the i4...

Active (along with Ionity Plus) is free for 12 months, so you can try it out and make your mind up after the year.

That's brutal compared to Tesla/Polestar rates I have to say.

I think the rates went up at the same time as the last price rises.

I can’t imagine pcp makes any sense at that rate?

I just checked what Porsche offer on the Taycan. 9.9%

onthe upside you’ll probably get close to what you paid for the car on trade in Digiman

I'd say that's just BMW bank cashing in some extra profits alongside the increases added to all models recently.

Went for a spin in a demo M50 earlier and I was like can we launch this bad boy? So we did and....

Almost lost my lunch 🤣

I expected it to be different than the e40 but not be a totally different car!

You won't get 5.5% at any CU unless you have a significant sum on deposit, even then, I've not seen any CU that is competitive against the rates you can negotiate with a main dealer, not in recent years.

Yeah PCP isn't for everyone and some are better off with a vanilla CU loan, it's easier, especially if anything goes wrong.

But I'd rather have my savings earning a decent long term return than losing 10% a year in real terms in cash or a CU, and a low 3 or 4% interest rate on a PCP.

PCP rates need to be 3 to 4 percent max really.

At 7.9, it's crippling. I saw a bmw PCP there earlier with a 10k cost of credit and accordingly, the monthly was way off where it would want to be.

My credit union is at 10 percent for car loans. Nuts. They also want 7.5 percent on fully share secured loan. They actually want 7.5 percent to do no more than set you up on a monthly savings direct debit because that's all it is.. .. are people actually going for this.

So you hold 20k in the credit union. You go in and get a share secured loan and they give you 20k back out. You are then obliged to pay them back 400 per month for 60 months totally 24k to end up with 20k savings.

The mind boggles.