OK, this is really for a bit of fun so everyone can have their 2p worth: why do some FFRR purchasers spec up a base model to the hilt, rather than simply go for a higher-spec model?

I was led to make this post after doing the geek thing and pricing up my mine to see how much it cost the OP back in 2017. So, options plus car as follows:-

4 zone aircon £915.00
22” wheels & tyres £2600.00
Ambient Lighting £240.00
Black Painted Roof £520.00
Ebony Headliner £315.00
Foot Pedal Metallic £160.00
Tghnd Privacy glass. £315.00
Large washer tank £35.00
Full size Spare £260.00
Wood/Lth.St.Wheel £485.00
Mud Flaps £284.00
Deployable Steps £3270.00
RR VOGUE (2017) £84195.00
Total: £93594.00

That’s more than an SE then by quite some margin, and only £801 short of an AB!

Why would he do that, do you think? Does it make sense, or is it utter nonesense?

(Of course, if I add on my own recent “big brakes” upgrade (an unavailable/unpriceable option) at approx. £5K, then we are nearly at a £100K Vogue )

I must say, the car suits me, and the OP must have given serious thought into it at the time, however maybe he thought too much about what he wanted, and not necessarily about what he was missing out on?  “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” -where’s the fun in that?

Ours is a Vogue that’s well spec’d too. Not dissimilar spec to yours, with the odd variance hither and thither, plus ours has the less common electrically deployable towbar. We are the second owner. First owner was landed gentry. No idea why he spec’d a Vogue up, quite happy he did though

Was a Pano roof std on the Vogue in 2017 - if not why on earth was that not spec'd.

Mad not to spend an extra 800 squid and have a top of the shop model.

Could it be lead times were different and the OP was just impatient?

Mud flaps £284  405 AB exec seats Baltic and Cirrus
93 RR Classic efi

Remember it's easier to get forgiveness than permission!

Gone in order:
4.4 TDV8 SE - gone to a good home
93 Classic hard dash Plymouth Blue
03 L322 Oslo Blue
2000 Disco TD5 ES Epsom Green
98 P38 Rioja Red
89 Classic Cairngorm Brown

@ajac8:

Fixed Pano roof is standard, glad I don’t have the opening one, one less thing to worry about as the car ages……  “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” -where’s the fun in that?

I could be wrong, but most of the things you listed are not standard on an SE or AB either.

So the original purchaser added the things they wanted in preference to some of the things that come with an SE or AB that they didn't value as much - eg. cooled seats or uprated music system.