General: Prices Paid

[wickywoo]

Hi - Mine (200 bhp Exec) was £35k with sunroof and family pack. Traded in my V70 for what I thought was a good price too, so pretty happy. Good luck!

[Redhead]

I bought my 2011 model XC90 R design SE Premium with Orange Wheels, who use Mill garages in harrogate.

I saved around £9k off the list price

Orange Wheels were brilliant and answered loads of queries I had. The team at harrogate were also good with regard to my queries and questions.

I live in Watford and my local Volvo dealer is in Hemel Hempstead. There could not have been a bigger constrast from the attitude there to orange wheels / Volvo Harrogate. I think that the sales guy at Hemel decided that we weren't serious and although took us on a test drive would not discuss figures with us at all. When we gave him the spec he said that he would send us the cost in the post..... which we thought was a very odd approach and then we never received anything. Any questions we had were either grudgingly answered or we were refered to the brochure.

I think that some dealers are very good and will match but some are not - it depends on your local dealership.

We have had a good experience with Orange wheels and harrogate - our only issues have been around timings and communication thereof but if you are prepared to nag on this on then they are a good option.

[cx90]

Thank you to all for the feedback.

In the end, drivethedeal had the best price (I asked about 35 dealers), I went for a slightly lower spec which came in at 44,325 full price, got it for 33,696 including 12 month's road tax. (should add that I did not have any part-ex)

[reggie59]

Originally Posted by Redhead

I bought my 2011 model XC90 R design SE Premium with Orange Wheels, who use Mill garages in harrogate.

I saved around £9k off the list price

Orange Wheels were brilliant and answered loads of queries I had. The team at harrogate were also good with regard to my queries and questions.

I live in Watford and my local Volvo dealer is in Hemel Hempstead. There could not have been a bigger constrast from the attitude there to orange wheels / Volvo Harrogate. I think that the sales guy at Hemel decided that we weren't serious and although took us on a test drive would not discuss figures with us at all. When we gave him the spec he said that he would send us the cost in the post..... which we thought was a very odd approach and then we never received anything. Any questions we had were either grudgingly answered or we were refered to the brochure.

I think that some dealers are very good and will match but some are not - it depends on your local dealership.

We have had a good experience with Orange wheels and harrogate - our only issues have been around timings and communication thereof but if you are prepared to nag on this on then they are a good option.

Interesting. Same experience as you with hemel hampstead. Sales guy was over the top in behaviour ( aloof?). Offered a discount of £5,500 but poor part value (£2000). Went to drive the deal, got 10,000 off an active and sold car privately for £4750. I think hemel hamptead is a vey poor Volvo dealership. There seem to be plenty of Volvo garage happy to match drive the deal but notvhemel hamptead

[drpepper]

Originally Posted by Banzai

I think the poster meant that the purchase price of the cheap new Volvo is reflected in its future resale value / price.

Possibly, though that said there are a lot of ex demo XC90s being sold for more than I paid for mine new, if Volvo dealers start taking XC90s in on PX's based on the discounted price, rather than the list price then used prices won't stand up either.....