Why so many 'deals'

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Tue 31 May 2005 15:14
Why so many 'deals' - Happy Blue!
There are loads of good new car deals on this website, and some of them are amazingly good offers. But why?

The usual answer is that there is too many cars seeking too few buyers and the makers need to keep the production lines running. OK fine. But why right hand drive cars?

We must be such a small percentage of production, that why do they simply not produce fewer RHD cars for the obviously smaller market? Does the same situation apply in Ireland, or Cyprus/Malta etc?


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Tue 31 May 2005 16:36
Why so many 'deals' - BazzaBear {P}

I don't know about the overall reason, but I wonder if the reason they do not do this:
why
do they simply not produce fewer RHD cars for the obviously
smaller market?


Is because the UK arms are run as an independant company, Alfa UK, Vauxhall UK, whatever. While an overall global company might decide to reduce the number of overall cars they supply to the country, the country specific child company would maybe be a lot more loath to accept that their sales were going to be so much less.
Not sure I've explained what I mean very well there, sorry.
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Tue 31 May 2005 18:15
Why so many 'deals' - Altea Ego
Because a specific number of R/H drive cars to be built are factored into production schedules, sometimes years in advance, R/H drive components are contracted out to suppliers and contracts / prices based on production numbers

With R/H drive cars you cant just shunt them round europe into whatever market is performing best.
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Tue 31 May 2005 22:04
Why so many 'deals' - madf
Follow on from RF, many RHD cras will have parts unique to them: dash, steering rack etc. So economies of scale dictate minimum order quantities. Hence the need to shift cars at a discount...

madf


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