Best time of year to buy brand new car + can you haggle on low value new cars?

spookylukey

Another Q...

As a female, is it best to take a bloke along when buying a new car - even if they know nothing about cars! I don't want to lose out on a good deal just because I'm female and the salesman might see me as a bit clueless and a soft touch Or am showing prejudices towards car salesman in general myself?

Kilty_2

I'd say so - a woman from my work spoke to the same salesman at the same Kia dealer I bought my Picanto from about one and was offered a completely different, absolutely worse deal.

Biggest thing is to do your homework though - can you get the car from an online broker at a lower price? Is the dealer advertising the car online for less than the screen price? etc etc.

Hintza

spookylukey wrote: »

Yes, it may be cheap but it's incredibly ugly!

You will miss out on possibly the most practical and cheap small car around at the moment. It will get you through snow and ice with ease. Can carry a mountain of stuff. Just s good in town on the motorwy or a farm track.

Has a non interference engine (1.2) that is s solid as a rock.

We have one as a second car and will be replacing it with another when the time comes.

agrinnall

I agree with Hintza, I've done nearly 60,000 miles in just over 3 years in mine and it has been fantastic (a cheap set of steel wheels with winter tyres were a big help in the snow). I've got an Eleganza and for some reason I reckon the roof bars make it look much better, but you'll be inside looking out anyway

spookylukey

Thans for all the input, I'm soon to be the proud owner of an Hyundai i10 - 1.2 engine, air-con as standard, £20 a year tax. It's a pre-reg (10 day old) showroom model - £7055 which I think is a pretty good deal (hope so anyway!).

darrenjs

Just got my first ever new car, woo hoo!

A Seat Alhambra, absolutely enormous inside, all the toys, so pleased with it.

Best of all I got over 3 grand off the price!

I shopped around and found some odd sites that offer a strange sort of auction system, but didn't fancy that.

I tried a lot of brokers, but the best seemed to be Drivethedeal.com they give you a price and then you pay a deposit to the dealer, and then the dealer pays a commision to them.

That seemed much straighter to me.

The car I got wasn't even one of those fabled stockpile cars that dealers want to shift, the Alhanbra is the car of the year, is on 4 months back order and I ordered mine in the colour I wanted with the optional panorama pack.

The biggest irony was after I got the quote, I went to my local Seat dealer and let them try and match the price, the said basically 'we can't match that, go for it'!

So I place the order and guess what? the dealer working with Drive the Deal called, and it was another branch of the same dealership.

The car came ever so slightly ahead of schedule and to spec.

In fact the price has gone up a bit!

How chuffed am I?!!:j

Tinks74

spookylukey wrote: »

Is there a best time of year to buy brand new, I know the new registrations come out in March & September so I'm guessing car dealers do OK in those months. As an example is it best to wait til October so they have a new months target to beat or does it not make much difference?

The best time would be at the end of the garage's financial year, they try to get anything and everything they can through their books to make their year end figures look as good as possible.

It depends upon how you feel about the reg plate on your car. I bough a pre registered car at the end of March, because of the registration change it made my car look 6 months older but it was still a brand new car and I got a good deal because the dealer was eager for the sale to complete before his company year end.