R36 Wagon- what did you pay?

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Originally Posted by PhillipVWDealer

Their are a bit of a shortage of R36 wagons at moment but feel free to contact me if I can help you with a quote. 0407692465

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Gerald Slaven have plenty... They're never short of stock up there. They are also a better Canberra option in my opinion, given I originally went to Lennock in Philip and saw a 4,000km demo MY08 R36 sedan and got a quote that was $6,000 MORE than a brand new MY09 at Gerald Slaven with more options and 20km on the clock (which I now own) :D

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Originally Posted by R34

I tried Private Fleet and the best they could do is $74k for a white sedan with sunroof and SatNav only
Any other brokers I can try?

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Please drop a line I should be able to help you... 0407692465... cheers'

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Originally Posted by Rocket36

Gerald Slaven have plenty... They're never short of stock up there. They are also a better Canberra option in my opinion, given I originally went to Lennock in Philip and saw a 4,000km demo MY08 R36 sedan and got a quote that was $6,000 MORE than a brand new MY09 at Gerald Slaven with more options and 20km on the clock (which I now own) :D

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Thank you Very much We try but they are shrinking quickly my stock levels...

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Originally Posted by R34

I tried Private Fleet and the best they could do is $74k for a white sedan with sunroof and SatNav only

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One thing to remember with white ones is that the sunroof shouldn't cost you extra. It's standard equipment on the white R36's because they don't come with metalic paint.

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Originally Posted by Rocket36

One thing to remember with white ones is that the sunroof shouldn't cost you extra. It's standard equipment on the white R36's because they don't come with metalic paint.

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Rocket is correct on this one... I have heard of dealers though who "don't know" about this.

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Originally Posted by Swallowtail

Rocket is correct on this one... I have heard of dealers though who "don't know" about this.

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Haha... Nicely put. I didn't want to say anything because I would have probably offended the dealers that "don't know" about it. :P

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Originally Posted by Rocket36

One thing to remember with white ones is that the sunroof shouldn't cost you extra. It's standard equipment on the white R36's because they don't come with metalic paint.

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Candy white in a R36 is only available for R36 in combination with the optional electric glass sunroof at addional cost... well that is how the bottom of the booklet reads as well as my invoice from vga australia when they book the cars out to me..

Hope we have that sorted..
They are not free.

No they are not "free". But they are also not an OPTIONAL extra because to get a white R36 means you MUST have a sunroof. Therefore they can not be invoiced as an OPTIONAL extra.

Every model except white comes with metalic paint included in the price.

Metalic paint is usually an additional cost on other models which means that a white R36 is actually worth less than every other colour. Hence the sunroof is added during the build process for every white R36 so they aren't actually worth less than all the other colours. If VGA ("VGA Australia" would actually read as Volkswagen Group Australia Australia) is ripping dealers off and they're passing that on to the customer, then that's a HUGE issue. Dealers shouldn't be paying MORE for sunroofs on white R36s than say a Blue R36 with no sunroof and no other options.

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Originally Posted by Rocket36

No they are not "free". But they are also not an OPTIONAL extra because to get a white R36 means you MUST have a sunroof. Therefore they can not be invoiced as an OPTIONAL extra.

Every model except white comes with metalic paint included in the price.

Metalic paint is usually an additional cost on other models which means that a white R36 is actually worth less than every other colour. Hence the sunroof is added during the build process for every white R36 so they aren't actually worth less than all the other colours. If VGA ("VGA Australia" would actually read as Volkswagen Group Australia Australia) is ripping dealers off and they're passing that on to the customer, then that's a HUGE issue. Dealers shouldn't be paying MORE for sunroofs on white R36s than say a Blue R36 with no sunroof and no other options.

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We as dealers get charged for the sunroofs exactly the same way customers do.. The paint is included in the cost of the car in an r36 no matter colour is chosen but at the bottom of the broucure it does state sunroof at addional charge when car is ordered in white and when we order the cars we always have to pick sunroof as option.. Thats life now everybody lets move on..

That's life? What the? Someone is making extra money on white ones then and once again it's Joe Public that gets shafted!