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      10-29-2011, 08:40 PM   #1
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[UK] CenterParcs Half Term X3 Convention

Just spent midweek at Centerparcs, Whinfell (the one in Cumbria). Wondered if any of the F25s I saw there belonged to members because there were a few in the car park.

I was on Three Oaks and next door but one had an 11 plate in mineral silver - any takers?

Also saw a twin of my car in the main car park - space grey, standard wheels, no xline.

On this trip the X3 really came into its own ... I can't believe how much stuff went into the boot/trunk. I didn't need to use my roofbox ... just had a couple of bike carriers on the roof bars and a Saris Bones with a couple of bikes on the rear - all our gear/food easily fitted in the luggage area.

Even loaded with all our stuff and with the extra drag from the bikes, the car was perfectly happy at "motorway" speeds and managed over 40mpg for the 120 mile journey.

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      10-30-2011, 02:42 AM   #2
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Not me but we are booked into center parcs for winterwonderland at beginning of december and was thinking the other day that the car park will be half full of x cars (it was last year along with Q5, Q7, disco, RRover etc)
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Our family went to Duinrell, NL for our school break - its very similar to a CP but I did not see any X3/5 from the NL, DE, PL or UK plates on site. In fact I did not see any F25 in 6 days and 1,000 miles.
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I believe there are just a few hundred X3's sold in the Netherlands and I also hardly ever see one!

I guess this will now start to change a bit because the people that ordered their X3 early 2011 will now get it delivered. I ordered in Feb and my car is built in the last week of September. Must be somewhere between Charleston SC and my dealership.
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I believe there are just a few hundred X3's sold in the Netherlands and I also hardly ever see one!

I guess this will now start to change a bit because the people that ordered their X3 early 2011 will now get it delivered. I ordered in Feb and my car is built in the last week of September. Must be somewhere between Charleston SC and my dealership.
In addition to VAT what is the extra % for 'special car tax' on an F25 in NL?
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      10-30-2011, 03:33 PM   #6
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The price of a X3 High Executive 20D automatic is composed of:

Base price EUR 42.051
Car tax EUR 12.687
VAT EUR 7.990
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Total EUR 62.725

The car tax depends on the "energy label" of a car. Luckily enough the 20D is a category B car which is quite good.

If you take a X5M with a G label, the base price of the car is 87.303 and you pay a whopping 64.118 of car tax on top of that! The good news is that in exchange for paying so much tax we generally have good and well maintained roads
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      10-30-2011, 03:58 PM   #7
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I agree with the roads, even the NL motorway surface quality is far higher than UK. Don't even mention the non-motorway UK road quality - one reason why I stuck with std 17".

Even your universities are better than (most) UK - one of my kids is going to study in Sep 12.
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Cool, where's he going to study?
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      11-01-2011, 09:26 AM   #9
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Leiden - we will be ticked off soon for effectively a private chat on a public forum with no F25 content or interest to ROW.......
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