Buying a car as an investment of any kind is a little bit crazy
you may be able to sell the slot on to someone for a little more than you paid and I believe the residuals will hold up fairly well, so after 3 years you may retain 60% but I wouldn't think for one second. But once you have the car it will only lose money and very quickly too.
The reason I'm buying one is that I really like my S3 Sportback DSG, the bits I don't like about it are likely to be fixed on the RS3 but even if they're not 100% it's still going to be a great little car with a great engine, even if it's a bit expensive which if you were to spec up an S3 to it's level would only be an extra 5k or so. The 1M doesn't even come close to floating my boat, it's RWD and living in the far north means that it would cripple me for 3 months, it looks like a bag of smashed arr-soles and you're always going to wish you had bought an M3.
Here's why the RS3 meets what some folk want, it's 4WD and despite what some people claim, the S3s Haldex system is excellent in the snow as proven by me, this very morning
. It's fast, in anyones book sub 5 secs 0-62 is quick and plenty quick enough. It's still really practical and relatively light on the motion lotion. And wrapping up that package is the RS bade with all the little special bits that come along, upgraded suspension, brakes, looks. The bits I'm hoping have been looked at are the understeer which is excessive (staggared tyres and altered geometry should help) and the numb, slight vague steering which should be much better.
I don't think it's just been cobbled together, balancing out that car so it handles well wont be as easy as all that, the CF wings, staggared wheel sizes and other bits suggest that they've done more than just chucked some bits together and put an RS badge on it. I will admit that it doesn't look all that special and while it would have no practical benefit and would probably sap performance some lovely big twin exhaust tips at the back would look a bit better
so it's not precisely what I would have chosen and it does feel a little over priced but I still want one, and I've put a deposit down. Cars like these are not about value, or investment, arguements like that make no sense. It's an indulgence and this one suits me the only gamble I'm taking is that it's not totally awful and I don't think there's a huge risk of that.
