They can't remap, or do anything else, to the engines to make them Euro 6 compatible. They have been manufactured under type approval as Euro 5, and that is it, end of story.
The other problem for manufacturers is that they're also bound by overall CO2 nmbers : basically, they've got to average under a certain figure for all their cars for the year. As such, they're desperate to get really low emission cars out as well, to compensate for the higher emission ones.
Expect good deals, hopefully. Personally if I was in the market for a new/pre-reg car, I'd go and have a look at what the various brokers could do (coast2coast, drivethedeal, etc) and use that as a stick to beat a main dealer price as close to it as possible (for new cars), or quite a bit lower (for pre-reg).
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