Depends on what you mean by 'should be in used section' some of them write 'New Mondeo' as in to mean the new shape of Mondeo, which is in itself four years old now. The other reason they might do it is of course the pre-registration method which dealers have been using since the beginning of time. As im sure most of you know the main dealers have targets on how many cars to sell and more cars will be arriving next year or whatever and cars need to shift so to make their sales figures look better they register them in their own name, they mightve only done a few miles or even a few yards in some cases. Essentially its a new car with a number plate on it but technically 'used' so it goes for quite a chunk off.

If its a 57 plate advertised as 'new' then they mean new shape and its a bit of a stupid thing to write in the ad but have a closer look, if its an 11 plate it might have 5 miles on the clock and a numberplate and be worth a look.

My mum bought an Aygo pre-registered, as she didn't want to wait months for a completely brand new one as her Nissan was packing in. It saved her a good chunk of change and since she'd never had a brand new car before, she wasn't really missing anything anyway by it having 20 miles on the clock!

Well listing errors aside that sounds a decent deal for a few month old car nearly 40% off!

In the section

-Cars For Sale

--New Cars

Still being advertised as "New" today.

Shame we cant say the same about this thread. *yawns*

It always makes me smile to read ads in Spanish papers and magazines for cars which are not actually new but "semi-nuevo" (semi-new), i.e. pre-registered. No one seems to quibble about the terminology, though...

Well its true its rare anybody pays the list price, you'd only do that if it was a somewhat rare or specialist car heavily in demand, in which case some people have been known to pay above the list price merely to que-jump for it. But the fact is just sticking a number plate on it does knock a few quid off and the saving is more notable on the sort of car that the dealers are giving minimal discounts on, small economical hatchbacks or other cars which hold their price really well.