I wanna buy a brand new car

jeannieblue

goldspanners wrote: »

is this the first time with no come back,no smart reply with a seedy inuendo? surely not.

are you loosing your touch?

My touch is as good as it ever was - you should know...

Inactive

harveybobbles wrote: »

WHY............?!

I would say, because they are very well engineered, come with a 7 year warranty and represent excellent value for money.

I had one out on a free 3 day test drive and I was suitably impressed.

JoolzS

I think maybe the "why" question was because no sane person would ever buy a new car. They lose between 20 to 40% of their value the minute they are registered. You buy a car tomorrow for £8,000 and the minute you drive it away it's worth £6,000. Best way I know to lose money, other than gambling.

Julie

goldspanners

JoolzS wrote: »

I think maybe the "why" question was because no sane person would ever buy a new car. They lose between 20 to 40% of their value the minute they are registered. You buy a car tomorrow for £8,000 and the minute you drive it away it's worth £6,000. Best way I know to lose money, other than gambling.

Julie

the op is quite happy with pre registered. so i dont think they are worried about it having to be new.
bobbles is just being snobby

izzzzythedog

JoolzS wrote: »

I think maybe the "why" question was because no sane person would ever buy a new car. They lose between 20 to 40% of their value the minute they are registered. You buy a car tomorrow for £8,000 and the minute you drive it away it's worth £6,000. Best way I know to lose money, other than gambling.

Julie

cant knock you , i agree and kia are worse than most for the value lost , its like pushing tenners down a drain , take this , 8 grand new so worth 6 next year , 40 quid a week lost in depriciation , at the 4 year point when most loans are paid off its worth 1500 if your lucky , cant live with that myself

gilbert_and_sullivan

izzzzythedog wrote: »

cant knock you , i agree and kia are worse than most for the value lost , its like pushing tenners down a drain , take this , 8 grand new so worth 6 next year , 40 quid a week lost in depriciation , at the 4 year point when most loans are paid off its worth 1500 if your lucky , cant live with that myself

On the other hand keep that same Kia for 7 years, during which time its guaranteed anyway, and it'll be worth probably £500.

I suppose you could buy a used equivalent hatch from one of the more suitable makers for the same money and keep it 7 years, it'll still be worth £500 if its still running, unfortunately if you bought it at 2 years old you will have had 5 years to pay for every single thing thats gone wrong with it.

The used car situation is changing swiftly, not just the pace of change, but the cost of putting things right when they go wrong can be astronomical, and i for one am no longer sure if i would want a mainstream car made since in the last 5 years out of warranty.

Unless of course you are into bangernomics, buying the car for £800 max, and being prepared to throw it away should it go wrong, for people that can do most repairs this is without doubt the cheapest way overall.

You only have to follow some of the threads on various forums to see what sort of problems people are having with their cars, and the incredible costs involved of putting them right, diesel problems especially, clutch and dual mass flywheel replacement alone starting at a grand.

No, i do know the Kia can suffer from a worn out clutch which won't be covered by warranty, but with a new vehicle, you know exactly how its been driven from day 1, and how its been looked after too.
Mind you having the main dealer service the car by the book for 7 years will not be cheap, so that must be added in to the calculation.

Diesels for example are no longer the obvious choice anymore, for one thing they have become too complicated, relying on particulate filters etc and far too many electrics to keep the emissions low.
Secondly, the difference in cost between petrol and diesel, and the vast improvements in petrol engine fuel economy coupled with the cheaper initial cost and subsequent repair costs make the petrol case much better than 5 or more years ago.

Quite apart form the worry of whether the previous owner misfuelled the thing, is there a several thousand pound bill waiting to pounce? Not a problem if you paid £800, but a major consideration if you paid £3K to £5K.

On another forum we had a mini survey asking whether we would be prepared to buy a used diesel car again (not banger price, but a relatively costly common rail model), and about half of us would not.
Most of those who wouldn't myself included had only ever bought used vehicles before, and i've been running diesels for some 25 years or more.

Sorry i've gone on a bit, but the case for the new car has changed with the long warranties from Kia and Hyundai, its not such an easy decision anymore.

Hintza

Nice post!

sheslookinhot

harveybobbles wrote: »

WHY............?!

a good looking, inexpensive, small car with one of the longest warranties on offer.

maybe that's why!

JonathanA

Sounds like a good price for a good car. But check carefully. My parents were very tempted by a delivery mileage Kia Sorento that was (still is) advertised at a Kia dealer. Upon closer examination the car was registered in 2006 and is a 56 reg, so although it is essentially a new car (with approx 25 miles on the clock) it has been stood somewhere for 2 years.

If the car you are looking at is pre-registered, then you need to look at when it was registered as that will eat into your warranty period.

dbramley

Hi,
Nothing wrong with the Kia Cee'd - its a very good car and is hopefully the way Kia is heading with all their new models.

For more information on the Cee'd there is an owners club: http://www.kiaownersclub.co.uk/ and they also have 10% off deals with a Kia dealer - see here: http://www.kiaownersclub.co.uk/news/243.asp

Might be worth a shot?

Cheers
Dan