UK Car Prices

...cheapest new car in the UK with their Nippa at £4,724 and has since been quite popular. Mitsubishi have let the air out of their prices significantly but that is because they are trying to make themselves poular again, while SEAT have adopted the value for money strategy and has since been praised for it showing low prices can work. Then there is the showroom scandal which was most surprising because it involved Volvo and Ford. Their dealers upped ...
...Used cars in the UK can be very cheap as in good ol'Blighty there are many cars that depreciate heavily like the Vauxhall Omega whoch has since become very popular. You can haggle to get the price down and you can try and get discounts and special offers like free insurance for a year - something Citroen have recently adopted and have since moved to the top of the sales charts - are very common. Remember the language barrier is also a problem and ...

Solex 30.12.2001 · Read full review
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...movement to and from the UK as additional costs need to be factored in. But, back to cars.... We can all carry on whinging about the prices that we are being made to pay but it doesn't stop us buying. The car is moving away from being a luxury item to a necessity. Remember though, there are ways you can save money on a new purchase... BUY ABROAD If you are prepared for a little bit of hassle then you can buy your car abroad at European prices. ...
...a car back to the UK and any customs duties that may become payable depending upon your circumstances. European manufacturers are obliged to offer the cars as left and right hand drive and so there will be no problems there although you may find a reluctance from some dealers to offer the UK models as they want to maintain the high UK prices. BUY ONLINE Online merchants have been steadily chipping away at the prices of cars in the UK. Big names ...

CareBear 21.08.2001 · Read full review
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I think more and more people are getting the picture now about buying cars abroad, there's nothing wrong in it, and dealers over here now do all the buying and bring the car over here for you. The normal dealer in Britain are now saying they're lowering their prices to match European dealers prices, but there's still a big gap between their prices. Alot of dealers over here arn't even lowering the price of their car at all, just trying to confuse ...
...over here for £15,000 with £2000 cash back in your hand, they know not many people pay for all the car straight away, so they have you up against the wall for £2000 more in some high intrest loan, than they would have if they would have just knocked £2000 of the price, so that's just a con. And all when you could have gone to a dealer down the road that could have imported you the same car for around £9000. A wopping £6000 less, and that really is ...

andyluk 08.08.2000 · Read full review
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The arguments continue over the dearer price of cars in this country compared to the prices of cars on mainland Europe. Over and over again we are told that the prices in the rest of Europe are cheaper than in this country, but why is that? Well a major reason has got to be that most of the world drives on the right hand side of the road and the majority of cars are therefore manufactured with a left hand drive. To produce the smaller number of right ...
...to right is obviously going to cost more money. It is about time now that we accepted that this country (and the few remaining other countries that still drive on the left) needs to change. There is no logical reason for us to be out of step with the rest of Europe over this matter any longer. I know that in the short term this would be very inconvenient (and expensive) as road layouts would need to be changed and drivers would have to be re-educated, ...

daseaford 30.08.2001 · Read full review
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We all know that new car prices in this country are too high. The high car prices in this country has been well covered in the press over the last few years and people have stopped buying new cars as a result. Everything in this country is more expensive than it should be, it's just that new cars are thousands of pounds more expensive than they should be. This all stems from the fact that we Brits are a very tolerant lot. We will complain amongst ...
...We hear all sorts of excuses and we believe some of them. Rover were one of the worst culprits. You could buy a Land Rover Discovery from Holland for at least a couple of grand less than you could buy one from a dealer in this country. As we all know, Rovers are made in Britain. Why, then, is it cheaper to have one made in Britain, shipped to Holland and then go over to Holland to bring it back? This is madness surely. If Rover had dropped their ...

adamdavid 04.10.2000 · Read full review
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I think its disgusting that cars that are build in this country with british parts and by british workers cost more than the exact same car shipped to another counrty on the continent. How can the likes of Rover, Toyota and ford justify this? Another thing is the stupid deals they offer us. For example cash back! you buy your car for about 10 grand and two months later they send you a cheque for £500. Why dont they just take it off the price anyway? ...
...for trade ins, this would get the bangers off the road and lots of folk buying a brand new motor. The level of equipment in a new car is a joke aswell. We as consumers demand full safety as standard that means driver and passenger air bags and side impact bars. Why buy a brand new car costing about £7000 without even rear wash wipe or electric windows when we can get top used car with only a few thousand on the clock with all the gadgetry? ...

zef 12.08.2000 · Read full review
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...cause the biggest fall in UK main dealership prices so far. But before we get carried away with working out what we will be able to buy for the same price as an Escort I think we should bear in mind one thing. Ther are many arguments to say that car prices should be high. Our roads are already heavily congested, we already have prevalent urban pollution and we have a very high number of road-related deaths. Surely if we reduce the prices of cars ...
...problems? And whilst we are filling up the forecourts with all these new cars, what is happening to all the existing cars out there? Anybody who owns a car now will be suffering massive depreciation - as new car prices decrease so will the value of your car. We are already starting to see this in the used car market - a new car suffers up to 40% depreciation once it has left the forecourt - if new car prices are now falling on a regular basis don't ...

LostWitness 22.12.2000 · Read full review
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The world seems to have gone mad this week: anyone would have thought the end of the world was nigh, what with the queues at petrol stations across the country. As we all know, however, it's just the truck drivers airing their grievances and, frankly, they have my utmost support. How are our own haulage people supposed to compete with their European counterparts when they are taxed so hard, and many times over? For all that, however, I speak as ...
...to B cheaply and easily. To do that, sadly, I need a car. I am a huge fan of public transport, and use it when possible - but I still need a car. I live in a village in Somerset, not that far off the beaten track - but for me to use public transport is an impossibility. To even have use of a local bus system I have to travel five very hilly miles by bike or foot, and even then I need a further two bus journeys to get to a train station. Once there ...

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Lowered Prices are bad news for new drivers! So we want equality with Europe? But this will mean no 0% finance offers, no free insurance, no freebies, etc. This is my personal opinion from personal experience! I am 19 years old and own a Fiesta Finesse 1.3 (W reg). Insurance for me on this car would work out at at least £1500 per year fully comp. That is a saving of £3000 for me. If car prices were reduced, they would not include free insurance, ...

Mick1293 16.08.2000 · Read full review
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...say about how competitive the UK car market is, it still doesn't stand up to serious scrutiny. You can still buy a brand new car like a Ford Focus for the same price as you would have to pay for a 1 year old 20,000 mile model with the same spec. This also means that the prices for cars that are 1-3 years old are also out of step. Complaining about changing exchange rates is an acceptable defence for 6 months after a dramatic change. However, we have ...
...profiteering pure and simple. I recommend you either keep using an old car whilst waiting for prices to get a bit more sensible, or import a new car. It isn't at all difficult although you might have to wait a few months. You will save a lot of money by doing so and end up with a shiny new car. ...

ahenry 22.09.2000 · Read full review
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Considering that our Government said in their original plans, before they came into power, the "Thing's Can Only Get Better", well they certainly haven't. Petrol and diesel prices have gone higher and higher. Public transport fares have increased. More tax has been put on everything. The Labour Party did the same thing when they were last in power. They have also sold nearly all our gold reserves to fund the Euro. Gordon Brown and Tony Blair are ...
...least 73% tax on fuel is the biggest problem they have come up with. Haulier's are going out of business, so there will be less food on the shelves. What is this country coming to. Eventually, there will be no jobs available, as there will be no transport to get people to work. Gordon Brown said that he wants people to use public transport to get to work. So what did he do? The following day he made that statement, he got in his car, and drove ...

Barningham2 22.09.2000 · Read full review
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My husband and I bought a secondhand diesel Peugeot 405GLDT at Ashford Hill Car Centre and we were surprised at the reasonable prices this company charges for its secondhand stock. A diesel of the type we bought, we had previously seen at an authorised Peugeot garage for about £2,700 more than we paid at this garage. The service we received was outstanding and the choice of cars available was very decent with the cheapest car selling for just £400 ...
...car could start as well). They even had a few sports cars for around the £6000 mark. Most cars only had one or two previous owners, and all of the cars were in excellent condition. The added advantage of the garage was that it offered the so-called "no credit check" finance with a company called Welcome Finance. ...

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...week something we cannot afford. Why is it that UK prices are so expensive when it is a lot cheaper everywhere else in the world it's the same oil making it. We pay our car taxes like everyone else but the poorer people don't stand a chance against the government. ...

squares67 20.08.2000 · Read full review
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...reason for this is that UK manufacturers are now offering three years free warranty with most new cars. When you take into account buying this for your import, it reduces the saving to the figure quoted. I would say now is the time to buy, what with the new reg coming out soon and the fact that people aren't buying, you can get a good deal. I managed to get a further £800 knocked off the asking price for a Ford Puma - which is a highly desirable ...

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