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Well thats a fine thing!
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Of course, now I know its in the UK, I can nag them twice a day! |
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05-16-2012, 10:10 AM | #1679 |
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Isn't Carbon Black an M-Sport only colour?
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05-16-2012, 10:36 AM | #1682 | |
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Interestingly, of all the X3's I see on the roads around here, they are all SE's. I have not yet seen an M-Sport on the public roads.
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05-16-2012, 11:46 AM | #1683 |
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One interesting stat, if you have time/enthusiasm Horsey, would be how many M Sports (and by colour ) opt for external aluminium trim instead of shadow line (although I guess that it can be broken into trim and roof rails seperately...).
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05-16-2012, 05:13 PM | #1684 |
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Here is a pivot table for you to play with ...
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05-16-2012, 09:12 PM | #1685 |
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Here is an interesting graph ...
It shows the breakdown of option spend by each engine category. As you can see, ignoring base price, 20D owners spend less than 30D owners who spend less than 35D owners on options. Note: M-Sport is considered an option. |
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Horsey, are you my long lost twin? if I had checked this thread earlier and wasn't so tired I would have been doing exactly the same OCD analysis of the data
On another point from the previous pages - delivery charge is included in the list price of the vehicle but itemised separately on the invoice, so you are not really paying any more than you thought for it. I assume its some sort of VAT/tax accounting trick. Lastly, the Thorne/Bremmerhaven issue - don't know the answer to this for sure but the fact that one posters dealer is saying the vehicle comes direct from the port and another is claiming it goes to Thorne is very odd... there are two different types of prep- the post shipment pre-delivery to dealer prep and the last bit that the dealer does. I really doubt that process can vary by dealer, it must be the same for all. At the end of the day the dealer only wants to sell you a car. They are not incentivised to be knowledgeable about much else.
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05-17-2012, 01:58 PM | #1690 |
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Interesting that 1 in 4 M Sport owners go for M Sport Suspension Delete. Confirms what I saw as a growing trend in approved used / autotrader.
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Software engineer / IT Incubator type thing ... Just can't help myself seeing how far I can go with something. Completely failed to track my car, probably because they aren't sent via WW any more ... but found an interesting source of data ... ... and there it began. Now I have a nice set of data I am seeing what I can do with it ... Once I get my car I can get back to focusing on the tangible! |
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It obviously could include the £700 delivery charge, but its hard to say as I don't know what the price rise for 2013 was (I got the 2012 price). In the summary on the configurator it doesn't mention delivery in the breakdown. Quote:
According to the WW schedule it is impossible for my car to be in the UK now unless the production date and status updates were at least a week out. This and the fact that we can't track our cars on WW leads me to now believe they don't use WW for the cars going to the UK. I am also aware that many dealers arrange for the cars to be sent direct from Southampton to the dealership for prep, however, my dealer has told me that they are too busy to prep the cars themselves and so prefer to have Thorne prep them. This of course works against me as some dealers are able to do a quick turn around. Sadly for me, I have a long wait ahead ... My choice of dealer was sort if ill informed, and has no doubt worked against me in a couple of fronts ... however, I hope that in others it may work in my favour, but I am having my doubts. ... at the end of the day I have learnt a lot during the journey, sadly much of it after the event! |
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I am trying to see what clever things I can do with the data ... ... I am trying to work out if I can calculate an "average" build. But first I think that would involve working out how to visualise data in 123 dimensions! (although some of them are mutually exclusive) |
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Well, just spoken to the dealer and my car is scheduled for production this week!! Woo hoo
So subject to timings of boats etc should be with me mid to end of June.
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