Savings at year end sales

[Joe5619]

I'm hoping for a bit of advice. I'm in the market for a new XR6T & I'm planning to wait until Dec/Jan year end sales. My question is, is there real savings to be made by waiting until Dec/Jan (as apposed to buying now) or are the "sales" at year end more marketing hype, then real savings?

Thanks in advance for any feed back

[GT69]

Good luck getting a 6T off the showroom floor mate, the way those things are selling I highly doubt there would be much in the way of excess stock sitting on showroom floors.

[Smoke Pursuit]

Originally Posted by GT69

Good luck getting a 6T off the showroom floor mate, the way those things are selling I highly doubt there would be much in the way of excess stock sitting on showroom floors.

Yes and no..

Its hard to predict with alot of people wanting cars before Christmas to make use of the investment allowance...

Theres a few XR6 Turbos around, but not heaps.. You will negotiate a good price at the moment if you do your homework.

[cs123]

You can pick up some bargains Feb/Mar as the dealers shift cars plated from the previous year. This is worthwhile if you plan to keep the car a number of years. The cars you get bargains on a generally slow sellers.

If you sell you cars after 2/3 years then the savings will be lost as the car is "older" when you sell it.

[Rodp]

Originally Posted by Joe5619

I'm hoping for a bit of advice. I'm in the market for a new XR6T & I'm planning to wait until Dec/Jan year end sales. My question is, is there real savings to be made by waiting until Dec/Jan (as apposed to buying now) or are the "sales" at year end more marketing hype, then real savings?

Thanks in advance for any feed back

There are savings to be made on floor stock. The yard now knows that an 09 plated car is less desirable to customers in 2010 - could have been built in Dec 09 but the perception is that the car, if you were to sell it in Jan 2011 would now be 2 years old. So you can bargain a cheaper price but be aware of the potential of getting less in resale down the track.

Damn, Ninja'd.

[VICFPV]

Buy near the next model or on runout deals.

[RATT]

It's not the same as a few years ago.
Most dealers, if not all, will hold a minimal amount of floor stock. There may be one or two XR6 Turbos etc. Not enough to warrant massive incentives from Ford.
Think of this too, what you save in buying a "runout" now will cost you when you sell it.

[Smoke Pursuit]

Yeh its not like BAMKII / BF days where tehre were hundreds of them sitting at year end.. Ford built too many FGs in late 2008 and learnt from that!

[Nappa]

I'd be snapping up a car this year rather then waiting into 2010. At the moment turbo's are hard to get, most of them are having to be ordered. So come jan you may find there are none left and you will have to build one. And that will cost you more. As we get closer to the end of the year stock is only going to tighten up.

[Bossxr8]

If you want it with a few options its most likely going to have to be built to order anyway.

[SSVPom]

It's currently a 6 week lead time for XR6 Turbos built to order with a few options. I know, I've been enquiring !

[Joe5619]

I think I'll need to order one as I want Luxury & tech pack, which I understand is only available when built.. I guess the overall feed back I'm getting is there is no need to wait until Dec/Jan as I won’t get any "year end" specials on an built to ordered car??

When does the factory close for x-mas & for how long?

Thanks all

[Dave R]

If you are going to be ordering a new one, hang out till the first half of next year (I've heard around April) as the I6 will be getting upgraded. It'd be a shocker to order one for Jan or Feb delivery then find that there is a new model on the market a couple of months later! Then again, this will require patience.

[Copie]

Originally Posted by Adrenaline

If you are going to be ordering a new one, hang out till the first half of next year (I've heard around April) as the I6 will be getting upgraded. It'd be a shocker to order one for Jan or Feb delivery then find that there is a new model on the market a couple of months later! Then again, this will require patience.

They are only changing it to match the Euro IV compliance yes?

[Dave R]

Originally Posted by Copie

They are only changing it to match the Euro IV compliance yes?

That is the reason for the update; some people have said that the I6 will receive a slight bump in power, this is just speculation though. Realistically I don't think Ford could make the turbo much faster than it already is anyway without giving it wider rears.

[Smoke Pursuit]

One would think the standard 4 litre will have over 200 kw then.. (which is easy enough for Ford to calibrate..

Turbo can easily get a power hike just in raw numbers as we know they are underated!

[markfalconute]

Im looking at buying a new XR8 auto ute,does anyone have any feedback on what i should be paying for one of these bad boys

[Joe5619]

Originally Posted by Adrenaline

If you are going to be ordering a new one, hang out till the first half of next year (I've heard around April) as the I6 will be getting upgraded. It'd be a shocker to order one for Jan or Feb delivery then find that there is a new model on the market a couple of months later! Then again, this will require patience.

Thanks, it is definitely something to thing about.. Will it be a series II or just an updated engine? I do keep reading about April next year, still trying to fix out what sort of changes are coming...

[Dave R]

Originally Posted by Joe5619

Thanks, it is definitely something to thing about.. Will it be a series II or just an updated engine? I do keep reading about April next year, still trying to fix out what sort of changes are coming...

It is unclear whether Ford will follow Holden in adopting running changes to the cars and labelling them MYxx as opposed to specific model series. For example, a number of changes have been made to the VE Commodore since 2006, including brand new engines and yet it is still labelled "VE" with the model year (MY09 vs MY10) being indicative of the updates.

It's doubtful that Ford will change anything more than the engines as the FG is still new and Holden haven't updated their VE significantly enough to prompt Ford to change FG.

Originally Posted by markfalconute

Im looking at buying a new XR8 auto ute,does anyone have any feedback on what i should be paying for one of these bad boys

You might have more luck asking in the Boss forums...

http://fordforums.com.au/forumdisplay.php?f=31

[Bossxr8]

Originally Posted by Joe5619

I think I'll need to order one as I want Luxury & tech pack, which I understand is only available when built.. I guess the overall feed back I'm getting is there is no need to wait until Dec/Jan as I won’t get any "year end" specials on an built to ordered car??

When does the factory close for x-mas & for how long?

Thanks all

DEC 18 for 3 and a half weeks. Most likely if you ordered anything now you would not get it till next year, especially a turbo. They might say 6 weeks but I highly doubt it would make that, there was a decent waiting list for them a few months ago, can't see now being any different. It was around 2-3 months wait mid year for anything 270 kw turbo powered.


As for the series II, I think Ford will do more than upgrade the engines. They will not only gain Euro 4 compliance but more than likely they will continue with the fuel economy improvements. I'd say there might be a good chance the plastics may be changed too, even if its just the front bar, but I don't know. Ford got hurt last time they did an upgrade and it barely changed in looks (BF). And they also probably were a bit annoyed that so many blind people claimed the FG looked the same as the BF. :

[colin55]

I doubt you would get a build delivered this year, I ordered my xr6t on 25th sep and the expected delivery date is the 20th of november...