Does AutoTrader cover the north?

forgotmyname

I start with ebay and autotrader and stick national. If there are a lot of cars i sort by distance. Scan over the local ones and then work my way up.

Almost drove from the Midlands to Redruth/Truro to see a car. All set to go on the weekend but found one approx 40 miles away instead and bought that.

BeenThroughItAll

bigadaj wrote: »

Not really, I've never heard of anyone referring to Cumbria as a region, unlike north west, north east, Yorkshire and Humber, east and west midlands etc

Since we're referring to the north then surely it would be more local to go the few miles north to Gretna rather than cross the country to go past Berwick?

You're the one that started the pedantry after all.

If we're being pedantic, then I'll point out that what I said was that there was another 100mi of England left. There is from the 'North West' in its undefined state. You're the one who mentioned Carlisle. It's not my fault that it appears you've never spoken to anyone outside your street.

By your argument, Yorkshire and Humberside also would never be mentioned, as they are counties just as Cumbria is.

The local news for the North East, contrary to your 'it's the North West' argument, actually covers 'the North East and Cumbria'.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0070g1d

Since you brought pedantry into it.

bigadaj

BeenThroughItAll wrote: »

If we're being pedantic, then I'll point out that what I said was that there was another 100mi of England left. There is from the 'North West' in its undefined state. You're the one who mentioned Carlisle. It's not my fault that it appears you've never spoken to anyone outside your street.

By your argument, Yorkshire and Humberside also would never be mentioned, as they are counties just as Cumbria is.

The local news for the North East, contrary to your 'it's the North West' argument, actually covers 'the North East and Cumbria'.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0070g1d

Since you brought pedantry into it.

I've just stopped up in Carlisle for work.

And had the unfortunate need to head over the border to Cumnock, guess what, it didn't take me very long to drive from Cumbria into Scotland.

I've mentioned these areas because they are commonly referred to as regions, whether this be according to broadcasters, local government or authority, European parliamentary etc etc

If you can introduce me to all those Cumbrians who describe themselves as coming from the north east I would be grateful and extremely surprised.

As I said before you started taking this off topic from what the OP wanted and are now determined to maintain your unjustifiable stand.

AdrianC

If I set Autotrader to a central Manchester post office, and look at - and this is purely random, first combo I tried - Ford Focuses <£5k, nearly 10% of the total national pool are within 20 miles. A quarter of the total national pool are within 50 miles.

So, yes, there are a lot of cars in the North West.

Whether the car YOU are looking for is there or not... Well, that's a different question. Perhaps you're after rocking unicorn droppings?

bigadaj

d123 wrote: »

?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/england/cumbria

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radiocumbria

http://www.itv.com/news/border/topic/cumbria/

Might have been better if you'd read those links before posting them.

The first link, go back up a level and, surprise surprise, Cumbria is included in the north west region.

With regards to bbc radio then pretty much every county has a radio station, I'm in the East Midlands but can receive radio Nottinghamshire, leicestershire, Derbyshire etc

The itv reference seems to include Cumbria in with the Scottish Borders, so would suggest that the distance to Scotland isn't actually too great.

agrinnall

bigadaj wrote: »

...so would suggest that the distance to Scotland isn't actually too great.

Well of course it isn't, Cumbria is contiguous with Scotland so the distance at its lowest point is effectively zero. There seems to be an appalling lack of knowledge of the geography of the UK by some posters in this thread.

JustAnotherSaver

Wow does it really matter?

What is north anyway? Manchester is north to some. It's 'oop norf' to me but it's still south of me even though i'd consider it 'in the north'. Some would say it's central. Who honestly cares anyway?

Seems everyones north is different by reading this thread. To some it seems to be that unless you're at the very most tip of the UK then there is no north.

But since i started the thread & it's about my version of north then i wasn't aware i would need to specify that just anything above me on the map is north to me. To be as specific as i'll go - i'm in Lancashire.

I didn't feel i was looking for anything specific in the searches. I see VW Golf's & Ford Focuses everywhere so not really anything on the rocking horse level.



And i'm willing to travel, although with restrictions.
I'll drive a car back from as far as Glasgow, even further i suppose, but not London.

AdrianC

JustAnotherSaver wrote:

To put it in to perspective i'm in the North West

JustAnotherSaver wrote: »

What is north anyway? Manchester is north to some. It's 'oop norf' to me but it's still south of me even though i'd consider it 'in the north'. Some would say it's central. Who honestly cares anyway?

Well, when you're moaning about cars not being available in "the north west", then it might seem a bit logical to give a rough hint as to where you're talking about, rather than making people guess.

Anybody claiming Manchester is somehow in the Midlands is a bit ridiculous, really. There are nine official regions of England.

Manchester is unequivocally in the North West. Claiming it isn't is simply denying reality.

But since i started the thread & it's about my version of north then i wasn't aware i would need to specify that just anything above me on the map is north to me. To be as specific as i'll go - i'm in Lancashire.

So somewhere between 10 and 50 crow-fly miles from central Manchester.

And i'm willing to travel, although with restrictions.
I'll drive a car back from as far as Glasgow, even further i suppose, but not London.

There's only about 40 miles difference between the longest Lancashire-London and the longest Lancashire-Glasgow distances. And, really, apart from some pathetic "I won't go south - it's a den of thieves!" willy-wave, why on earth not? It's a round trip in a day. If it finds the car you want, or saves you a non-trivial amount of money, you'd be daft not to.

vikingaero

It can sometimes depend on certain make, models and type of car you want. The last 2 cars I bought were from Hull and Glasgow and I'm from Kent. I tend to find that more of the cars I want are based Oooop Norf, Travel isn't a problem. I paid £56 to fly to Glasgow to collect one of my cars and the trains wanted triple that.

JP1978

Really?

Did the OP not think to try a different make of car (Ford Focus etc) that will get about 1 million results or use a scottish post code as the area?