23-12-2012, 05:41pm
Bad enough they had to raise the cost of the car by approx £1000 (Dynamic/Prestige in May this yea but they are playing with accessories etc too! Why? Not as if they are cash strapped, just playing on those who have not bought LR previously who won't notice & hope I guess that us others are dumb enough not to notice.
There are probably several things that have changed but a couple I can think of are - making the Aeroflip spoiler on the Dynamic a £150 option when it was previously standard, Raising the Tech Pack by £100.
Then remember recently the metallic paint became a standard item though a £550 price rise at the same time so no benefit to us & no extra for LR just one less option to put on an order form I suppose = OK unless you want Fuji White where you blow out for an extra £550
When the Metallic was the £550 option the Premium metallics were £900 so a difference of £350 now the Premiums are £550 so I guess another case of adding an extra £200 thinking that folk are used to seeing the £550 option & won't notice, well I did. I mentioned this to Nick@Landrover on the phone the other day & said I wasn't that impressed with these sort of games as I was thinking of Barollo for my next car but am not being stitched up in the process!
Unless raw materials have increased on certain items then I think this is a very annoying stance for LR to be pennypinching!
There are probably several things that have changed but a couple I can think of are - making the Aeroflip spoiler on the Dynamic a £150 option when it was previously standard, Raising the Tech Pack by £100.
Then remember recently the metallic paint became a standard item though a £550 price rise at the same time so no benefit to us & no extra for LR just one less option to put on an order form I suppose = OK unless you want Fuji White where you blow out for an extra £550
When the Metallic was the £550 option the Premium metallics were £900 so a difference of £350 now the Premiums are £550 so I guess another case of adding an extra £200 thinking that folk are used to seeing the £550 option & won't notice, well I did. I mentioned this to Nick@Landrover on the phone the other day & said I wasn't that impressed with these sort of games as I was thinking of Barollo for my next car but am not being stitched up in the process!
Unless raw materials have increased on certain items then I think this is a very annoying stance for LR to be pennypinching!