I received a letter today from the chap who imported my car fifteen months ago.
He told me that he was now going out of business as his suppliers had informed him that from now on it would take at least ten months to supply him with cars.
This would appear to be a blatant way to halt one avenue of cut price cars into the UK.
Since the cost saving was about four grand or 25% it seems the car manufacturers are still determined to perpetuate rip-off Britain.
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I don't see the relevance to german cars - the manufacturers in question are Chrysler and Volvo.
I would guess that there are thousands of cars sitting in fields around the UK but the car manufacturers are still holding out for much higher prices than in the rest of Europe.
I wonder if anyone can give an example of a car sold in this country equal to, or even less than the price in say, Belgium or Holland.
It's odd that millions of car buyers are so willing to pay thousands of pounds more than they need.
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Ooh, grumpy! Point surely is, if there are German cars unsold there are many others including the Chrysler and Volvo variety. The market is down: just give the mfrs time to work out the USP. Xmas? Nice new present?
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I heard a little story from a transporter company boss that there are large amounts of RHD cars ready in Europe waiting for the supermarkets to collect that haven't been selling the numbers recently that they have planned for.If they are slowing up Mr G.Brown of 11 Downing Street had better take notice.
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I don't know if HJ's comment about RHD German cars sitting in compounds applies to BMWs (though I doubt it) but a UK main BMW dealership recently offered me 6% off a new 525i and, when I turned this down, they offered to drop a further £800-odd. This was for almost immediate delivery, so long as I went with their spec.
When I was seriously thinking about buying a new 5-series a year or so ago, the maximum discount they would give was 2% and there was a 14 week wait whatever the spec.
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Another thing -- did you see Watchdog this week? Virgin were slated for promising the earth but failing to keep those promises. Delivery times of a few weeks for imported cars have turned into months; an incredible ten months in one example.
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Wh*t C*r publishes list prices, target prices and says where these target prices can be obtained, UK or abroad. Quite a few of them are actually cheaper in UK but not many and not much that you'd want to buy either!
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