Difficult Choice of V8's

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Personally I went for a late 550 Awd, over a P450 it was the looks, not a fan of the new headlights. I’m sure I’ll get used to them but it loses that modern day E type look which is what I love about it.
So far I’m delighted with it, such an easy car to drive and live with, far more comfortable than my X3M.

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Good to hear from somebody who has tried both. Im tending more towards an older 550 at the moment partly because when I look for a P450 with all the options I want its about £5K over my budget.

Was interested in a blue 550 AWD, 2018 only 7500 miles - when I asked main dealer how many owners it has had, they replied 1 - but a car check shows 3. Not sure who is correct as awaiting response from dealer but seems odd if a car has had 3 owners and only done 7500 miles in 4 years!
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Purplecat wrote: Tue Jun 14, 2022 12:06 pm Good to hear from somebody who has tried both. Im tending more towards an older 550 at the moment partly because when I look for a P450 with all the options I want its about £5K over my budget.

Was interested in a blue 550 AWD, 2018 only 7500 miles - when I asked main dealer how many owners it has had, they replied 1 - but a car check shows 3. Not sure who is correct as awaiting response from dealer but seems odd if a car has had 3 owners and only done 7500 miles in 4 years!
Whilst recently hunting down and buying a Velar I found a fair few that had one or 2 dealers registered as owners. Seems more common during a post covid when they buy and sell between dealers, register, tax and use them, rather than pre covid registering endless new cars for management, demo's, etc. I can many imagine as joint dealerships they do the same on the Jaguar side.
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Car dealers 🙄, I love it when they pretend not to know how many owners a car has had, or the service history. Funny how they seem to be able to remember these things when buying from you.

Similarly my car was registered to a dealer for 6 months to begin with. Probably to make it a VAT qualifying used car, as the person who bought then put it through a company.
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Purplecat wrote: Tue Jun 14, 2022 12:06 pm Good to hear from somebody who has tried both. Im tending more towards an older 550 at the moment partly because when I look for a P450 with all the options I want its about £5K over my budget.

Was interested in a blue 550 AWD, 2018 only 7500 miles - when I asked main dealer how many owners it has had, they replied 1 - but a car check shows 3. Not sure who is correct as awaiting response from dealer but seems odd if a car has had 3 owners and only done 7500 miles in 4 years!
Happy to look up details if you have an advert or reg.
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Thanks, spoke to them this morning, said they would get back to me:-
https://www.sytner.co.uk/jaguar/car-sea ... eeplinking

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Purplecat wrote: Tue Jun 14, 2022 2:59 pm Thanks, spoke to them this morning, said they would get back to me:-
3 previous by locations I think. Registered Bristol then, Northampton, Shrewsbury and Nottingham
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Post by Purplecat »

Yes I get
PREVIOUS KEEPER CHANGED ON
21-09-2021
07-02-2020
29-06-2018

Very odd, so 4 owners have only done 7500 miles in 4 years :?
Cant wait for their explanation!
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It it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it is most likely a duck.
Your 5K budget savings could go south real fast!!
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Probably :)
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