Ford Fiesta Deal

drocks

I called into a dealership tonight and was told to wait until the end of march when the q1 is about to end. He said this is generally when deals become pretty good. Has anyone had any experiences of this?

daveyjp

The country is awash with Fiestas 2-3 years old. For the 6-7k a PCP will cost you could be in a car you will own after three years.

OddballJamie

£6284 for three years use of a Fiesta with a 20 year old engine, seems steep. When the facelift came out my local dealer was shifting them out at £8499 new.

Alternatively £500 would get a pre-reg Corsa and you would own it at the end.

If you want a new car every couple of years then leasing is the way to go, take this as an example, £3770 over two years for a 1.0 Zetec S Ecoboost 125
https://www.contracthireandleasing.com/car-leasing-companies/independent-brokers/future-vehicle-leasing-ford/ford/fiesta/43204506/

Also don't forget the £110 a year VED on the Fiesta 1.25, that you wouldn't pay on a lease.

BeenThroughItAll

CTcelt1988 wrote: »

Maybe they want a car that's reliable and won't break down, costing them more.

Yeah, because new cars never have problems, do they? What a facile statement.

LandyAndy

BeenThroughItAll wrote: »

Yeah, because new cars never have problems, do they? What a facile statement.

None of mine have.

BeenThroughItAll

LandyAndy wrote: »

None of mine have.

Neither have any of my 'bangers'. Wear and tear items only.


Ergo, new is always>old is a provable fallacy.

LandyAndy

BeenThroughItAll wrote: »

Neither have any of my 'bangers'. Wear and tear items only.


Ergo, new is always>old is a provable fallacy.

Did I suggest new cars are always more reliable than old ones?


I will, though, suggest that, on average, cars get less reliable as they get older.

BeenThroughItAll

LandyAndy wrote: »

Did I suggest new cars are always more reliable than old ones?

No, you didn't. The poster to whom I replied did, and you replied to me.

LandyAndy wrote: »

I will, though, suggest that, on average, cars get less reliable as they get older.

The potential for unreliability increases with age, certainly, but there is no reason for a car to break down and cost a fortune to fix just due to age. Reliability is directly linked to how well looked after a car has been.


All too often people stretch their finances to buy a brand new car for 'image' reasons, then can't afford to service them properly or replace worn parts. That's when a new car becomes unreliable.


If they'd just buy something cheaper and look after it, they'd have far fewer problems.

mjoneseyjones

You have no idea whether the OP or 99.9999% of other new car buyers are stretching themselves for the image of a new car or not. It's just a generalisation that you and the rest of the banger brigade on here have built up and applied to anyone who doesn't subscribe to your car buying habits.

The fact of the matter is that a newer car is less likely to have wear and tear or catastrophic failures than an older one. Theres plenty of pros and cons to forking out on a new car, but so long as the purchaser can afford the car and the maintenance (and we have no reason to believe they can't) then reliability is not one of them.

BeenThroughItAll

mjoneseyjones wrote: »

You have no idea whether the OP or 99.9999% of other new car buyers are stretching themselves for the image of a new car or not. It's just a generalisation that you and the rest of the banger brigade on here have built up and applied to anyone who doesn't subscribe to your car buying habits.

Where did I say the OP was stretching themselves? Or indeed 99.9999% of buyers?

I said 'all too often'. If 1% of people don't look after their new car properly, that's too often in my book as it is an avoidable issue which wouldn't arise if that 1% would just get over their need to impress with a new car.

Read more of the threads on here about people who can't afford work when problems arise or who want to VT their car because they can't afford the payments and you will find plenty of examples to back up that assertion. I see it in colleagues' cars in the car park at work, and in cars that people ask me to work on.

The fact that I choose not to buy new cars doesn't make me a fanatical banger purchaser. I prefer to drive something interesting and cheap, and change it often. My wife prefers newer cars and spends a lot more money on them. The difference is she spends our money and we don't pay interest. You say that's a generalisation by 'the banger brigade' - in my case it's nothing of the kind, it's based on experience of running both new and old cars, and in working on both. Precisely because I disagree with generalisation that I made the statement I did in post #15

Your opinion and mine clearly differ, just as they have before. I have no interest in arguing percentages or averages; I was simply pointing out that the blanket assumption in the post by CTcelt1988 that new>old was inaccurate.