Thinking about buying new A6

[Doctee]

Hi Folks
Thinking about buying the new A6- did a test drive yesterday and very impressed. Looking at contract hire for the first and wondering has anyone any good/ bad experiences with contract hire, any advice?
I've spoken to a few brokers who are offering deals considerably lower than anything that Audi dealer could do. Seems too good to be true...
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[nealeb]

I didn't actually speak to any of the online brokers but had an online quote from a number of them (and not all of them seem to list the new Avant). I also had a quote from my local Audi dealer. Give or take a few hundred, all of them, brokers and dealer, were about the same. Some brokers were actually quoting a little above the dealer price. Two things helped - if you take out Audi finance, there is an automatic £1750 "help" with the deposit (and one of the brokers said that this was taken into account in their quote), and Audi are also "instructing" dealers to give an additional discount of £2250 - instant £4K drop in list price. Actually, there was one online broker who came out about £5K cheaper. It was so much out of line with the others that I suspect that they might even have been quoting for the previous model.

That was all for straight purchase, though, so probably no help to a question about contract hire...

[blue62]

Hi Folks
Thinking about buying the new A6- did a test drive yesterday and very impressed. Looking at contract hire for the first and wondering has anyone any good/ bad experiences with contract hire, any advice?
I've spoken to a few brokers who are offering deals considerably lower than anything that Audi dealer could do. Seems too good to be true...
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I've been fishing around for quotes on a 3.0tdi Avant S-line and there is quite a variance, I was surprised that Audi came out cheaper than the specialists but my problem is finding the right spec. It's coming out around £650 for 3+36 15k pa, the new tax regs means that contract hire is the way to go on any reasonably expensive car because you can no longer write down the value at 25% pa on the balance sheet if you buy. On experience I would say that the dealers are offering competitive deals on A6 just now and you can really push them.