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OK so every where I go people don't stop going on about the cost, so I have put together a few salient points below:
Turns out there are about 3000 car variants priced below the Ampera price and 1000 car variants above. I have not put together a distribution of prices, to calculate how many SD's from mean price or anything, if you want to, feel free, but without accounting for specification or even sales quantity I think its pointless..
Source http://www.carpages.co.uk/guide/
The perfect comparator car must be this Vauxhall Insignia Elite 2.0 cdti:
http://www.carpages.co.uk/guide/vauxhal ... s-auto.asp
(who would buy this now? feel free to paste the above link into any ones price argument)
And cars like this Insignia become a bit of a joke.
http://www.carpages.co.uk/guide/vauxhal ... 4-auto.asp
(@20p per mile to fuel(urban), £265/£190 VED, 0-60 in 9.9, grp23, only advantages here are 1660kg(-80kg) and 4wd)
Maybe this goes some way to explain why the Ampera is priced higher than was initially expected? Maybe Vauxhall was putting other lines at risk once the discount was factored in.
Some other comparatively priced hatchback vehicles:
Audi A5 Sportback 2.0 TDI S line - £31,895 http://www.carpages.co.uk/guide/audi/au ... s-line.asp
Citroen DS5 Hybrid4 200 Airdream EGS6 DSport - £32,200 http://www.carpages.co.uk/guide/citroen ... dsport.asp
Subaru WRX STI 2.5 Type UK - £32,995 http://www.carpages.co.uk/guide/subaru/ ... ype-uk.asp
Volkswagen Golf R 2.0 TSI DSG - £32,790 http://www.carpages.co.uk/guide/volkswa ... .0-tsi.asp
Infiniti EX 30d 5 door - £37,130 http://www.carpages.co.uk/guide/infinit ... 0d-5dr.asp
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Turns out there are about 3000 car variants priced below the Ampera price and 1000 car variants above. I have not put together a distribution of prices, to calculate how many SD's from mean price or anything, if you want to, feel free, but without accounting for specification or even sales quantity I think its pointless..
Source http://www.carpages.co.uk/guide/
The perfect comparator car must be this Vauxhall Insignia Elite 2.0 cdti:
http://www.carpages.co.uk/guide/vauxhal ... s-auto.asp
(who would buy this now? feel free to paste the above link into any ones price argument)
And cars like this Insignia become a bit of a joke.
http://www.carpages.co.uk/guide/vauxhal ... 4-auto.asp
(@20p per mile to fuel(urban), £265/£190 VED, 0-60 in 9.9, grp23, only advantages here are 1660kg(-80kg) and 4wd)
Maybe this goes some way to explain why the Ampera is priced higher than was initially expected? Maybe Vauxhall was putting other lines at risk once the discount was factored in.
Some other comparatively priced hatchback vehicles:
Audi A5 Sportback 2.0 TDI S line - £31,895 http://www.carpages.co.uk/guide/audi/au ... s-line.asp
Citroen DS5 Hybrid4 200 Airdream EGS6 DSport - £32,200 http://www.carpages.co.uk/guide/citroen ... dsport.asp
Subaru WRX STI 2.5 Type UK - £32,995 http://www.carpages.co.uk/guide/subaru/ ... ype-uk.asp
Volkswagen Golf R 2.0 TSI DSG - £32,790 http://www.carpages.co.uk/guide/volkswa ... .0-tsi.asp
Infiniti EX 30d 5 door - £37,130 http://www.carpages.co.uk/guide/infinit ... 0d-5dr.asp
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