As a typical car enthusiast, the itch to get myself into another car is hitting me hard.
I'll blame it on a combination of laziness and growing up I suppose. There's absolutely nothing wrong with my gti. It's still an absolute blast to drive.
However, life happens; the wife and I are planning to have kids next year. After driving lowered cars for 10 years, I'm starting to get a LITTLE bit tired of it...especially during the winter. Or perhaps I'm getting really spoiled driving the wife's QX50. It feels great not having to cringe scraping the underbody during winter, being able to plow through speed bump etc.
At the same time, the wife absolutely refuses to drive my car ever since she curbed two of my wheels. :laugh:
Long story short, I'm toying with the idea of trading in the gti for something a little more mature and with more space.
1) Has anyone got their gti appraised recently and remember the trade in value? Canadian Black book says 17k - 19k but that number seems very inflated. I have a 2013 DSG fully loaded with just under 100k km on it right now.
2) If I'm willing to dish out 25k-30k on top of the trade in, what should I consider? I'm looking at used 340i, b8.5 S4, C400/C450 or just go full family oriented and go for an SQ5.
I realize this is a pretty open ended discussion and some of the vehicles I've listed will start fires but I'm just genuinely lost. LOL growing up and finding something to replace the GTI is pretty hard.
I'll blame it on a combination of laziness and growing up I suppose. There's absolutely nothing wrong with my gti. It's still an absolute blast to drive.
However, life happens; the wife and I are planning to have kids next year. After driving lowered cars for 10 years, I'm starting to get a LITTLE bit tired of it...especially during the winter. Or perhaps I'm getting really spoiled driving the wife's QX50. It feels great not having to cringe scraping the underbody during winter, being able to plow through speed bump etc.
At the same time, the wife absolutely refuses to drive my car ever since she curbed two of my wheels. :laugh:
Long story short, I'm toying with the idea of trading in the gti for something a little more mature and with more space.
1) Has anyone got their gti appraised recently and remember the trade in value? Canadian Black book says 17k - 19k but that number seems very inflated. I have a 2013 DSG fully loaded with just under 100k km on it right now.
2) If I'm willing to dish out 25k-30k on top of the trade in, what should I consider? I'm looking at used 340i, b8.5 S4, C400/C450 or just go full family oriented and go for an SQ5.
I realize this is a pretty open ended discussion and some of the vehicles I've listed will start fires but I'm just genuinely lost. LOL growing up and finding something to replace the GTI is pretty hard.