I'm not sure whether salesmen (and women) are idiots or they think and treat the car-buying public idiots.
Two tales....
Found a Cooper S convertable for the wife, viewed, test drove with a very pretty salesgirl, and sat down to negotiate.
She really pushed PCP and when I asked for payment details, tapped them into the calc app on the phone, and said "So if we are paying you an extra £3,700 over the cash price for PCP, what are you adding as an incentive?
Her blank face - as if rumbled - was a picture. I said how about a full tank, set of mats, two services etc, etc, and it was no, no, no. Still there 2.5 hours later, haggling, 'business manager' asks what he can do to help. Wife wanted black wheels, and eventually, and only coz it was 10 mins to closing time, they agreed. Talk about blood from a stone? Anyway we paid cash and the car has been superb.
Last month visited a VW dealer in Derby, test drove a Golf R. Great car and drive apart from the stupid sound actuator for engine noise that's no better than an amusment arcade.
Was semi-interested as BMW 330D x-drive was on test drive list, and he would not budge one bit on £26k screen price and expected me to pay another £600 to have sat nav s/w installed.
I walked..... Why produce a car costing upwards of £30k new with no sat nav when rival premium manufacturers do provide one?
Still, it will all begin again next April when the pensions cash in - and I suspect I'll do a lot of walking.
Edited by Miniman777 on 16/09/2016 at 19:54
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