Are these heavily-discounted cars really brand new?

I often see advertisements for new car sales with huge discounts. For example, I recently noticed a new Peugeot 207 CC for sale at £13,899 when the full price is around £16,500. It looks too good to be true. Are they really new cars?

Asked on 8 November 2012 by DC, via email

Answered by Honest John

Certain vendors specialise in buying in bulk whenever and wherever they can. Some manufacturers still overproduce and the cars may briefly go onto rental fleets or be registered as demos, so they might not actually have many miles on them but are secondhand, and can be tremendous bargains.

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