New Car Deals

scaredofdebt

Hi,

Our elderly Renault Grand Scenic is now untenable so we are looking to replace it. It's probably worth £500 or so trade in but there are so many things wrong with it that I wouldn't want it on my conscience to sell it privately!

It has had £800 spent on it over the past 12 months and needs another £600 minimum spending to see it right. For a 10 year old car worth so little I don't really want to keep pouring money into it.

We also no longer really need a 7 seater like this as the rear 2 seats are only good for children up to about age 8 and the youngest two are now 9 and complain about how cramped it is in the back.

It also returns 30 MPG which isn't good as we're doing 300 miles a week minimum in it.

If you add up fuel, tax, average repair/service costs we're spending around £400 a month on it.

A larger 7 seater such as a Galaxy is going to be prohibitively expensive and we don't need all 7 seats very often.

So we are going to go for two smaller cars and use both on the odd occasion all 7 of us go out. We've already got on small car that is fairly new and reliable.

I would never normally contemplate a new car due to the depreciation costs involved but there are some good deals that would overall cost us no more than what we've been paying for the Renault, possibly slightly less.

I've seen a local Vauxhall dealer offering a Corsa on 5 years interest free credit, £2k deposit, £129 a month. It returns 55 MPG (Vauxhall figures, I know these will not be achievable in real life) and is £20 a year for VED.

I've also seen another dealer offering a "Fuel and Go" deal for £159 a month including insurance, tax and servicing over four years on the Kia Rio - the problem with this deal is you pay extra for mileage over 6k per annum so it would be an extra £15 a month for our mileage.

What I'd like to do is see if anywhere will offer an ex-demo or very nearly new car with the same deal, I suppose I need to ring a few dealers to find out.

Anyone know of any similar deals ideally in the North of England, or good web sites with this type of info?

Thanks.

motorguy

scaredofdebt wrote: »

What I'd like to do is see if anywhere will offer an ex-demo or very nearly new car with the same deal, I suppose I need to ring a few dealers to find out.

Thanks.

Its highly unlikely.

These deals are offered by the manufacturer to help them sell new cars.

motorguy

Vauxhall dealers were doing a new Zafira there for a while at £9995. Granted it was the petrol variant, but thats a lot of car for the money.

There are still some around if you check autotrader.

Also, found this 2014 registered one for £9995

http://www4.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201402201932050/sort/default/usedcars/postcode/bt622hb/onesearchad/new/site/uk/page/1/radius/1500/make/vauxhall/model/zafira/advert-type/standard-listing?logcode=ucbnp