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I was just browsing the Suzuki website and noticed that the price of a new SV has risen to £4900! This seems strange to me, the price of new cars is dropping like mad but Suzuki have increased their prices! Has the demand for motorcycles increased so they can get away with charging more? Euro vs Pound?
Discuss.
plowsie
05-01-09, 12:04 PM
I was just browsing the Suzuki website....
I've heard that one before.
EDIT: I was browsing and fell into a GSX-R600 that magically started up by a set of keys that happened to be in my hand and when I rode away, I accidently left my SV key there :lol:
This was for the Sport one. The nekkid appears to be the same price...strange!
the_lone_wolf
05-01-09, 12:21 PM
Has the demand for motorcycles increased so they can get away with charging more? Euro vs Pound?
Discuss.
Not the Euro, the Yen
http://www.x-rates.com/d/JPY/GBP/hist2008.html
Pound is worth much less in Yen, therefore importing bikes from Japan is more expensive in the UK right now
Dangerous Dave
05-01-09, 12:53 PM
Doesn't make sense, not with the used Pointy prices tumbling....
Dave20046
05-01-09, 01:50 PM
Not at all.
That's really expensive for a bike I can buy a new fiesta for just a ton more ....and have 0% finance on top. How much were they before the hike?
kwak zzr
05-01-09, 01:52 PM
RRP is one thing, the price you pay is another.
kwak zzr
05-01-09, 01:52 PM
I've heard that one before.
EDIT: I was browsing and fell into a GSX-R600 that magically started up by a set of keys that happened to be in my hand and when I rode away, I accidently left my SV key there :lol:
eh, u got a gixer6 now plowsie?
Not at all.
That's really expensive for a bike I can buy a new fiesta for just a ton more ....and have 0% finance on top. How much were they before the hike?
In September they were £4699 but they ran a £400 cash back deal for a few months so effectively £4299.
RRP is one thing, the price you pay is another.
Yeah I got mine for £4k. Haggle haggle.
plowsie
05-01-09, 02:24 PM
eh, u got a gixer6 now plowsie?
haha no i wish, was just making an example.
kwak zzr
05-01-09, 02:26 PM
test ride one ;) you'll love it!
You can get a new 2008 model Kwak ZX-6R at George Whites for £5499.
£4900 for an SV is too much when you compare it to that!
plowsie
05-01-09, 02:33 PM
test ride one ;) you'll love it!
NO Kwak! I WILL NOT GIVE IN!!!!!!!!!!!! :smt019
SoulKiss
05-01-09, 02:48 PM
You can get a new 2008 model Kwak ZX-6R at George Whites for £5499.
£4900 for an SV is too much when you compare it to that!
Is it?
Dont forget the increased cost of insurance could be double that of the SV.
You will, however, pay less road tax :)
The GSXR1000 K8 is due to go up in price by £400 and the new R1 by £600. It's been touted around the trade for months.
Could be worse, we could still be paying 1997 prices - £8250 for a Firestorm anyone?
kwak zzr
05-01-09, 03:18 PM
ive never known anyone to pay RRP prices for a bike, have you?
£8250 for a firestorm! is that why they did'nt sell.
They sold loads of them, every single one that came into the country. Back in 1997 prices were through the roof, an R1 was damn near 10 grand back then because the big 4 manufacturers fixed prices in the UK and were ripping people off. It was the actions of dealers like Granby's in Derbyshire who parallel imported UK spec bikes from the EU that forced the big importers to lower prices.
A friend bought a new Triumph Daytona T595 around the time they first came out. He flew out to Chicago, visited relatives for a week, bought a new Daytona T595 still in the crate and had it shipped back to the UK and had the headlight modded to comply with our law. At the end of the trip, taking flights, shipping, spending money, registering the bike and everything else into consideration, he reckoned he was still 800 quid up over buying a UK model from his local dealer. As the bike was UK built there was no import tax as it was effectively being repatriated, all he paid was VAT and getting it road taxed over here.
I bought a brand new Firestorm in July 1998, I'd been saving up to get it because I always buy my bikes cash. At the time I had about 7K saved when the sale of my ZZR1100 was taken into account. Honda dropped the price of a Firestorm from £8250 to £6400 and I haggled that down to £6000 with Tinkler's in Norwich. I bought a set of race cans and a personal plate with some of the surplus.
As a consequence of new prices being so high used prices were also silly - in early 1997 I bought a 7 year old 17K miles ZZR1100 C2 for £4500 - that was what they were worth at the time, nowadays a 7 year old bike like that fetches about £2,500. The guy I bought it off bought another one and paid over £10K for it. The following year he had to sell it and after the new bike price drop he only got £5500 after 2,000 miles. I lost £1300 on his old ZZR1100 when I sold it privately after 18 months.
We are much better off now in real terms
I guess we've probably been through the best time.
My SK1 was something a bit over £4k new nearly 8 years ago, list price was about £4.5k . You'll pay essentially the same for a K8 now.
I bought my 2000 UK spec Toyota Yaris new in Belgium and saved well over £2k, best price i could get here was about £9k for the same spec model. You'll not pay any more now, best part of 9 years later. That was the era of total rip-off Britain.
The £-Yen is going to hit us here though, just wait and see.
injury_ian
05-01-09, 05:00 PM
How about a GSX-F for £5200?
ive never known anyone to pay RRP prices for a bike, have you?
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me with my 675, but then when its 1 of only 150 made i wasnt gonna hagle, got discount on the goodies though
shonadoll
05-01-09, 09:22 PM
That's RRP though. My k7 naked was £4k including scottoiler when the rrp was £4399 or something.
That's RRP though. My k7 naked was £4k including scottoiler when the rrp was £4399 or something.
no all my goodies were proper aftermarkets goodies (pazzo levers for a start ;))
shonadoll
05-01-09, 09:54 PM
no all my goodies were proper aftermarkets goodies (pazzo levers for a start ;))
I got pazzos too.
£5570 for an SV650 Sport K9 now...the price of bikes is getting considerably higher now! :(
I got mine in Sept 2008 when RRP was £4299 (with £400 cash back), but actually paid £4k. Seems like quite a jump in price.
metalhead19
09-02-10, 01:40 PM
Also, the benefits of haggling will become slimmer due to spring being around the corner and dealers soon wont have to shift bikes silly cheap to achieve sales targets
Milky Bar Kid
09-02-10, 01:47 PM
I didn't realise this was a resurrected thread and got a tad confused there when I saw a post from Dangerous Dave...!
The Guru
09-02-10, 03:26 PM
I didn't realise this was a resurrected thread and got a tad confused there when I saw a post from Dangerous Dave...!
I also had a double take.. until I read the dates.
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