Hi all ozbargainer,
I am living in Sydney and looking to purchase for a Nissan X-Trail Ti - 4WD - Petrol engine. At the moment, it's $49,614 drive away on their website. I don't know how much I should offer the dealer. I want to take their 1% interest finance. I am a first time buyer so looking for all advices and suggestion from everyone. Hope everyone can help me to choose the best car with the best value for my 1st car. Many thanks in advance.
Hi Spackbace,
Thank you for your advice. I have seen the car and I am going for a test drive now. I want to have a clear number in mind before I go there for make an offer with them. I have tested drive a lot of cars and could not find any different between cars.
Hope everyone can help me to choose the best car with the best value for my 1st car. Many thanks in advance.
Yikes. Any reason why you're going for such a beast of a car for your FIRST car?
Sorry cDNA. I didn't make it clear. I mean the first brand new car. I had small cars before and I think it is time for me to upgrade to a bigger car. I drive a lot for work and do a lot of road trips. So I think Nissan X-Trail is suite for me. And I want to buy a car to keep for long time.
I drive a lot for work and do a lot of road trips.
Go diesel if you clock 100s of km per week.
The diesel Xtrail is a piece of shit. Go someone else if you need diesel.
Do you pay for your own fuel. I've found I don't do anywhere near the amount of road trips since I moved to a bigger car. The cost of fuel starts to become a deterrent.
When I realized I could spend $100 in fuel going on drive out of town for the day I started to think twice about it. $50 in a small car not a big deal.
You have to be realistic about what the car will do. An Xtrail like many here is a high riding fake 4wd CUV whatever which is 1.5-1.7 tons with a 2.5 PFI four.
Its not going to be that fuel efficient. If if you can get under 10 litres per 100 on the hwy, you're doing good.
If you're getting 11-12 litres around town you're doing ok.
If you buying a $50k CUV and you're paying $1,000+ a month on car repayments and cant afford petrol, you need to reassess whether you can afford a $50k CUV.
I know I cant so I don't.
I thought I was being realistic? The point is not whether you can afford the fuel , it's whether random day trips for fun remain the economical entertainment they were. And if you think that's not relevant you are on wrong website.
An analogy would be if you decided to only buy goldclass movie tickets , is it a good decision if you now only find half the movies worth the price.
I even put the numbers up there for you, I HAVE AN XTRAIL, how realistic is that.
If you need to travel from Sydney to Newcastle thats a 130km x 2 round trip so you have to budget for 260km of fuel. That's Something like 26 litres of fuel. That's about $31.
Big deal.
Fuel should not be an issue for someone able to maintain repayments on an Xtrail.
Hell our other car is a V8 Commodore. On hwy trips the fuel economy is about the same as an Xtrail due to the fact the Xtrail is a high, less streamlined vehicle.
If I can do simple sums like that well then so can you.
I only use Newcastle as an example, I dont drive there unless its for work but 260km is about as much as I want to travel in one day.
Of course if you're driving more, then budget more. The figures are available for every car.
@tonyjzx: Dude I'm not sure why you're here picking a fight with me but push off.
What I said was simple enough, I don't really care about what you think.
Not fighting with me mate. You're fighing with maths and facts. Good luck there.
How about outlander $27,990 with free auto??
Outlander is a piece of shit.
Our family has an xtrail but its just the std. base model with 7 seats. Drove various grades but its all the same crap IMO.
Its a fine choice for $35k. In fact there's not much choice for that much… a Mazda is a lot more etc.
For $50k… ehh…
when i bought my car, i just called up all the dealerships and said "i want to buy x car, whats your price to get me down there?" If they give you a good price, you play them all against each other. But you need to have a clear idea of what you want so you can outline it all (ie; colour, model, extras (like mats, roof racks, tinted windows) so they know you're not messing around. Don't bother using a broker, IMO they're a waste of time
Look up Carsales, find cheapest listed price in the country for that model, use that as bargaining chip
Have you seen the car? Driven the car etc?