be careful of fakes, especially batteries. Also you need to allow for VAT and duty. Then they are not much cheaper.
if you can wait then just look out for special offers. Amazon and B&Q both throw up some good ones. I got some excellent prices using barclaycard bespoke offers (flubit) against amazon prices. The supplier was big red toolbox I think.

Well, you can hardly expect technology not to move on over 10 years, and when that concerns battery technology, when moving to an entirely new battery composition, the battery sizes, proportions, and of course, the connection placement will all change. If I had some 10 year old Ni-Mh drill and the battery died before the drill did (this would normally happen with low-to-very-low usage) and I HADN'T had the foresight to buy a spare battery while they were still available, I'd say that was my bad, and happily move on to the far superior technology available today. I reckon the top (Makita, Bosch) "mini" 10.8V li-ion drills of today are as powerful as the 16V Ni-Cads of 12-15 years ao, and almost as powerful as the 18V Ni-MH, but with the huge advantage of being much smaller and much lighter (about half the weight & 2/3rds of the size)
Finally, yes, I reckon they are almost twice as good as the Ryobi, although the new tech coming soon (some are already here) is the brushless technology, which makes tools more reliable, with ,ore efficient, thus lower battery usage. Prices are quite high at first, as always with jew tech (though I saw a DeWalt brushless that looked decent and was very competitively priced a few weeks ago @ Toolstop) and I'm guessing this is why the prices for these drills are dropping by 15-20%.

​I have been looking at ryobi tools and they appear to be a lot cheaper if you import them from the US.

Yeah but how about buying new li-ion batteries for your 10 year old bosch professional drill that used ni-mh ones until they died? They appear to have changed the battery fitting when they went to li-on. So those tools are now pretty much worthless.
And all the current bare tools and batteries are about double the price of the ryobi so they'd better be amazing!
My 10 year old ryobis have been thrashed but are better than ever on li-ion batteries.
I suppose if you just want a drill set to thrash for a couple of years and then buy another it's a good deal. I have some bosch blue tools and they are good (can get parts).

More than that:
For power tools, a Bosch is a Bosch.
A Ryobi is a brand name licensed out from Ryobi of Japan to Techtronic Industries of Hong Kong. Ryobi sold their European power tools business in 2001.
So a Ryobi is a Techtronic Industries product, that carries the Ryobi name.

I would approve of the Ryobi battery strategy if they sold the additional batteries at a competitive price. However, of course once you are hooked in, an additional Ryobi battery costs more than it should, just the same as a replacement battery for any other drill brand costs more than it should (compared with the implied cost of the battery if you buy a competitively priced branded drill with 2 batteries).

Techntronic industries (TTi) have the rights to several brands.

[The same issue affects other consumer goods. e.g. Sharp license the rights to their brand out to Vestel of Turkey for products such as microwaves in Europe]

Picked up for 105 quid thx!!

​I couldn't have said it better myself! Also Bosch is a much better brand than Ryobi.

​I couldn't have said it better myself! Also Bosch is a much better brand then Ryobi.

1) Who would throw away a tool when the batteries lose power? They just buy a new battery! They ARE available. You still have to do the same for Ryobi!
2) You don't throw away the battery if you tool is lost or broken, you buy a new tool body! Or sell the battery on ebay and get a good price!
3) Same goes for ANY RANGE OF CORDLESS TOOLS EVER!

It's as if you think Ryobi have EXCLUSIVELY hit upon some magical system that no one else has. ALL manufacturers have ranges with interchangeable batteries. It may take a few seconds to work out the compatibility, but with the Bosch professional range (teal+red coloured) ALL 18V batteries fit ALL 18V tools, same goes for the 10.8 V range.

Although I just saw that it's only £100 before VAT, otherwise it's actually £120! Still a good deal, although not as killer as the £105 from Powertool world, who are very good, I've used them.before, just make sure you make a shopping list and scan their entire site for any other tools or spares you need, as their free post is only above £100, and I always see small stuff there that's cheaper than a few other places, but is no longer the cheapest if I don't make up the price diff to get the free postage. Other good places for tools are toolstop.co.uk and ffx.co.uk (ffx is particularly good for small stuff/spares, as they have free postage and some very competitive prices)

Whoa! Killer deal! I paid £135 for this model with 1 battery of 4 Ah, but I guess 2 batteries of equivalent total may even be better for purposes of running one tool continuously or - obviously - 2 tools at once.
I haven't even used it much, for most smaller jobs I used my 10.8V Bosch set since I bought all of them at about the same time, so I could have waited and got it at this price. Aaargh! Why does this always happen to me?
I see that combo (4Ah batt) is now £125 @ Powertoolworld, which is where I think I got mine from!

I will console myself with the fact that the bigger 4Ah battery makes the drill a bit better balanced as I rock back and forth in the foetal position, crying myself to sleep tonight.

Voted cold, the price is not £99.99, it's £119.99 including VAT. As bumblingbee has pointed out it's £105 at Powertoolworld.

http://www.screwfix.com/p/bosch-gsb18-2-li-plus-18v-1-5ah-li-ion-cordless-combi-drill/9647j

£99.99 with 2 1.5Ah batteries

I have the Ryobi and it's very good if you can get it reduced (your link is to the standard price) and with flexibility of using the same batteries for other tools (if you buy them), but it's not the same league as this. It also has much smaller capacity batteries then this Bosch.

or £105 here: http://www.powertoolworld.co.uk/bosch-gsb-18-v-li-combi-drill-dynamic-series-inc-2x-2-0ah-batt?gclid=Cj0KEQiAiNi0BRDaobaq3dKJhrwBEiQAyVThzfy22N3z2XZuRYzZ7RWPdds-VYaNO2rrXL-bZenLY2gaAoY08P8HAQ

Charge time 3 hours, Bosch one is 30mins.

is this not the same price in screwfix?

http://www.screwfix.com/p/bosch-gsb-1800-18v-2-0ah-li-ion-cordless-combi-drill/7649h

For the same money I would consider the Ryobi one+ equivalent.
http://www.diy.com/drills/ryobi-one-plus-cordless-18v-li-ion-drill-2-batteries-llcdi18022l/196738_BQ.prd

1) You don't throw away the tool when the batteries lose power.
2) You don't throw throw the batteries and charger away if the tool is lost or broken.
3) If you want new cordless tools they are much cheaper as you already have the batteries

£99.99 is the ex VAT price.

67Nm torque is good.

Heat added. An excellent drill, a gift at this price, and there is a three year guarantee on the blue stuff. A great find OP.

Great drill great price. Cheapest seen this drill for was £99 in screwfix and that was wirh 1 battery only. Absolute bargain this price