Cheapest prices for new cars?
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Thanks all, some good advise here.
Ranger
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Mrs Ranger went and bought a brand new car for the first time ever yesterday, she had just wrapped her old one around a bollard!
Basically the car price went from £15000 to £11000 and as we still wouldn't sign on the line, we got free servicing for life! As Mrs Ranger does 20 000 miles a year for work it was too good to miss, and all on a diesel Astra with £35 VED, doing 60ish miles per gallon
Basically the car price went from £15000 to £11000 and as we still wouldn't sign on the line, we got free servicing for life! As Mrs Ranger does 20 000 miles a year for work it was too good to miss, and all on a diesel Astra with £35 VED, doing 60ish miles per gallon
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I know this is an old thread, but in the end my wife got a VERY GOOD deal indeed on a new S-Max from Ford Online.
Mr Pig
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I've never understood why people want to buy brand new cars. The depreciation is horrendous!
We've just bought a Mazda 6 which is less than two years old and had less than 15K miles on it. Totally immaculate, £7'250, that's ten grand lower than the new price! So the original owners have lost £5'000 a year! Barking.
My boss had a Range Rover years ago. At the time I slagged him off about how ridiculous it was, referred to it as 'the truck', and I remember that shortly after he got rid of it he told me that he'd worked out how much it had cost to run it. Including depreciation it had cost him £500 a week! A week!!!
It's a fantastic time to buy a car and the bottom line is that you'll get a good deal on anything. I would decide on what kind of car you actually want and then look for one. If you just look for the best deal you'll get a poorer car. You'll always get good deals on things like Crysler's and Renaults because they're not the best cars in the world. I'd pay a bit extra and get something better built. And I'd buy used because that'll save even more.
We've just bought a Mazda 6 which is less than two years old and had less than 15K miles on it. Totally immaculate, £7'250, that's ten grand lower than the new price! So the original owners have lost £5'000 a year! Barking.
My boss had a Range Rover years ago. At the time I slagged him off about how ridiculous it was, referred to it as 'the truck', and I remember that shortly after he got rid of it he told me that he'd worked out how much it had cost to run it. Including depreciation it had cost him £500 a week! A week!!!
It's a fantastic time to buy a car and the bottom line is that you'll get a good deal on anything. I would decide on what kind of car you actually want and then look for one. If you just look for the best deal you'll get a poorer car. You'll always get good deals on things like Crysler's and Renaults because they're not the best cars in the world. I'd pay a bit extra and get something better built. And I'd buy used because that'll save even more.
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We got well over £7k off the new price, in fact there are second hand cars (for exactly the same specification) going for more than what we paid "brand new" (and it wasn't even a pre-registered car either) - I guess we were in the right place at the right time because we got the penultimate car at that price.
We bought my wife's last car brand new and we kept that for over 13 years. In terms of depreciation that equated to about £1k per year which was insignificant compared to all the other running costs. But I agree, if you are only going to keep a car for a few years, buying "new" is rather extravagant.
We bought my wife's last car brand new and we kept that for over 13 years. In terms of depreciation that equated to about £1k per year which was insignificant compared to all the other running costs. But I agree, if you are only going to keep a car for a few years, buying "new" is rather extravagant.
Mr Pig
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Shaun said:
Which is perfectly sensible. I know people who buy a new car and keep it for ten years. Not many though. Like you say, over the life of the car it works out fine. I've never bought a new car, I could never afford to even if I wanted to. The youngest I've bought was six-months old.
I tend to keep cars until they're too much trouble than they're worth. I don't see the point in getting rid of a perfectly good car just because it's not the latest fashion. They're just too expensive.
