Buying new car- still in factory ONLY ONE AVAILABLE

neilmcl

AdrianC wrote: »

VAG cars come to the UK from Emden, into Tyne, Grimsby and Sheerness.

Have a look at this for some information on the usual timings of that...
http://www.vwaudiforum.co.uk/forum/showthread.php/174040-Shipping-times-from-Emden

It's also worth remembering not all Audis are built in Germany - A1s are built in Spain, A3s may be German or Hungarian, the old Q3 was Spain but that moved to Hungary with the new model. The Seat plant in Martorell to Emden is damn near a 24hr train journey, even without taking the logistics into account.

Which illustrates my point, Audi, like most manufacturers, wherever they are, don't have a 1 week lead time on factory ordered/built cars. Also most VAG cars don't "come from Emden", that's just the port of exit, their factories are elsewhere, Igolstadt and Neckersulm for a lot of Audi models.

pinkteapot

Echoing the advice to talk to more than one dealer. We bought a new car a couple of years ago. Specced it up after test-driving and spoke to two dealerships about price. Ended up buying from the second one who didn't have to do any selling - they got us at the "Here's a list of exactly what spec and extras we want - how much?" stage.

Also, get a quote from an online dealer (e.g. Carwow, Car Supermarket). Local dealers probably won't be able to match as they have high overheads, but we managed to get a local one down to within a few hundred quid of the online dealers, and we were happy to pay a bit extra to have a local place to go back to if there were any problems with the car.

In short - you need some prices from other sources to use when negotiating. Go in knowing your figures inside out (especially if trading in where they might increase the trade-in offer rather than reduce the car price, or adding optional extras which they might start throwing in for free) and what overall price you're aiming for. Treat it like having a go on Dragon's Den. We sat with the dealer we bought from for over an hour beating the price down further. They might have just agreed to get rid of us in the end. :rotfl:

Ours was Skoda and there wasn't one available or in production to our exact spec. We could have had something close in spec quicker, but as it was the first time we'd bought brand new we were happy to wait a few months for it to come in to exactly the spec we wanted.

As others have said, don't be swayed by high pressure sales tactics.

Arsenal2019

Thank you!! I’ll be sure to negotiate and haggle them down. I’ve done my research on what others have offered and thrown in. I’ll be sure to ‘play them at their own game’

The_Rainmaker

What price are they offering you the car for? For the basic with no extras you should be paying £14,300

DUTR

AdrianC wrote: »

What on earth do you think a Cologne-built Fiesta is?

I thought the Fiesta were made in GB

AdrianC

DUTR wrote: »

I thought the Fiesta were made in GB

There's almost as many people sleeping on the site of the Dagenham factory as in the heydey of production...

Except now they're not being paid to do it - they live in the houses built where the factory used to be...

Arsenal2019

The_Rainmaker wrote: »

What price are they offering you the car for? For the basic with no extras you should be paying £14,300

Yes it is around that figure. But with the finance I would pay just below 18k

DrEskimo

Arsenal2019 wrote: »

Yes it is around that figure. But with the finance I would pay just below 18k

Nearly £4k in interest charges....!

What's the terms of the finance? I take it's a PCP finance loan?

Arsenal2019

The_Rainmaker wrote: »

What price are they offering you the car for? For the basic with no extras you should be paying £14,300

DrEskimo wrote: »

Nearly £4k in interest charges....!

What's the terms of the finance? I take it's a PCP finance loan?

Yeah it’s 500 deposit and PCP

DrEskimo

If you can borrow £13,800 on a 4yr personal loan at 3% it would only cost you £850....

What's the cash price relative to the PCP price on CarWow?