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lol ya those estimates are way off. the only way to really save money by doing ED is to go pick up the car and drop it off the same or next day. and this is assuming you can get low priced tickets and time off of work. i also wouldn't want to have a car as i'm traveling through europe. their rail system is so good and their traffic and parking is so bad, i couldn't imagine driving my brand new bmw there. I love BMWs. I love traveling to europe. I dont like the combination
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It's still worth it, considering CCA $500 rebate stacks with European Delivery but not fleet discounts. So you're really looking at a delta of $4000. If you keep your trip within that price-range, you basically just got a "free" European vacation. If you make it a real short trip and spend half of that, you just pocketed $2000 and got a driving experience not available state-side. Even if you go over, that's still a $4000 discount on a European vacation! Yes it used to make even more sense, but it's still a solid deal IMO. I think maybe this is the American hermit crab mentality. I've lived all over the world, and I think America has the highest percentage of people content to live out their whole lives in whatever podunk town they were spawned in. God bless the USA, I guess. The waiting for an extra month is a somewhat valid argument, I guess, if you have absolutely no other car and don't get corporate discounts on rentals and absolutely must have the mode of transport. |
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I thought that too until I did it, now I can't imagine not doing it - it adds so much to your car remembering cruising the same car through Milan or the Alps or along the riviera ... which is completely an emotional thing but that's the only reason to buy these cars in the first place: because we're all weak emotionally.
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If you are a travel stud, you can definitely save $$,$$$.xx doing ED. Even if you pay for the airline ticket out of pocket, you can do an in-and-out same day ED, or add a one night stay to check out a few beer pubs. With 1+ months advance airline ticket shopping, you can find off-season tickets for ~$600, summer for ~$900 from most parts of the US (not 1st class, obviously). For a $70K F80 build (conservative price tag, can easily push it north of $85K), 5% ED discount == $3.5K. You also save some money on MACO fees (n/a) and better all around deal since dealers who know how ED allocations are handled, will cut far batter deals on ED cars vs. those that cost them allocation slots. When I did my ED in December of 2014 (7% ED discount), I had saved ~$10K vs. buying a car off the dealer's lot. One can easily blow those $10K savings (and then some), on a semi-luxurious Euro vacation. But that's entirely up to you. I flew and stayed on points, so you can estimate the bottom line from there... Quote:
It make take an additional few days to get the ED car from the drop-off location to Bremerhaven docks (plus whatever long you drove it in Europe), but otherwise, it's the same time-frame as shipping an individual spec-ed US market car. YMMV, a
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I collected my fleet discount (on an i3) by way of both the $1.5K price reduction, as well as reduced lease MFs. Submitted my CCA rebate (hey, why not). BMW CCA had confirmed that my CCA rebate paperwork was in order on 3/19, and forwarded it for processing to BMW NA. On 4/21, I got an email that said BMW NA had denied it. The exact wording: "This vehicle received an Executive Allowance discount. Also known as Corporate Fleet discount. The Membership Rewards Program cannon be used in conjunction with these programs per the terms of conditions of both" No hard feelings. Just facts. a
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