Buy a new car

aj3001

I am currently looking at buying a new car (new car as in straight from show room, me being the first owner) what websites are there in which I can see manufactureres deals, I'm sure there was one but I can't remember what the site was.

And if it helps, the car I am currently looking at mainly is the Dodge Calibre

A_Nice_Englishman

According to http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/news/index.htm?news_id=2577 there are few savings to be made over the list price. A few hundred pounds only.

As this is a money-saving forum, expect lots of suggestions such as

buy a pre-registered car
buy an ex-demonstrator
buy a car a year old and let someone else take the depreciation hit

Nile

Hello aj3001

I'll move your thread over to the 'Motoring & Public Transport' board, where it should get more views and responses.

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Nytehawk

aj3001 wrote:

I am currently looking at buying a new car (new car as in straight from show room, me being the first owner) what websites are there in which I can see manufactureres deals, I'm sure there was one but I can't remember what the site was.

And if it helps, the car I am currently looking at mainly is the Dodge Calibre

I have become money savvy this past few years and got most of my cars over the past 6 - 7 years from https://www.millennium-cars.co.uk and although preregistered (no mileage) it's saved me thousands on franchised packages. You get the same warranty etc and you take the car to your local dealer if a fault crops up.;)

Murphy_The_Cat

https://www.drivethedeal.com always seems to come up with a feww good prices !

Personally I'm delighted that we're going to get more "American" cars in the UK.
Even though the prices won't be the same as the Americans pay, they will be thousands cheaper than the european / Far East models and will come very well equipped of "fully loaded" as standard.

MTC

marksward

buy a pre-registered one - theres even more to save. Its probably just sat in a showroom, whereas the 'brand new' one has sat in a muddy field

tomstickland

I think there was a word for that: !!!!!!.
Best of luck on the deal though.

Basil_Hume

Dodge Caliber - definitely best avoided IMO. Likely to be a depreciation disaster, meaning of course that the actual cost of ownership would be higher than its contemporaries. Why pay more to own a Caliber when you could have a nicer car for the same or less over a given period?

I expect you'd find the Caliber ok in isolation, but not when tested back-to-back with some of the very talented European competition at about this price (even if it had to be an ex-demo or pre-registered).