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Scrappage scheme sir? That will be £2500.00 extra.
Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 9:13 am
by leafie
Just in case anybody is thinking of taking a nearly dead Minor in.
Called into two Renault dealers on Wednesday with my 11year old Primera. The car I was looking at had a screen price of £10995.00. At the first dealer I stood in the show room for 10 mins. before a member of staff asked if I was waiting to see a sales person. On answering yes she said she would get somebody for me, after another 5 mins. of waiting I walked out. At the second dealer a sales person came over immediately, they had the same car at the same screen price in the show room. When I asked about the car I was told '' that price is a special offer on cars registered in April. If you want to use the scrappage scheme the car would be a May registration and the price would be £13495.00.''
Car dealers don't you love em.
Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 9:59 pm
by paulhumphries
Fiat are runnning an advert on local radio.
Cheapest new Panda is £6999 and they are reducing price by £1000.
You then have £2000 scrapage allowance leaving £3999 to be paid over 4 years on interest free credit.
Sounds too good to be true - brand new car for £3999 !
If I could afford the monthly payment I'd have been seriously interested.
Paul H.
Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 10:02 pm
by d_harris
how much is the payment? Sounds to good to be true....
Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 7:38 am
by Longdog
Was he wearing a Sheepskin coat?
Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 9:19 am
by Dean
The salesmen could be on redundancy notices... therefore maybe they don't really care.
Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 10:10 am
by PSL184
Actually the Panda is a damn good car - esp 4K for a brand new one !!!
Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 10:46 am
by LouiseM
That Fiat deal doesn't sound right. They are running a special promotion on their cheapest Panda for £4,995 which includes a £1,000 scrappage discount and £1,000 discount from Fiat (my 'modern' car is a Fiat so just got sent all the promotional bumpf). Repayments are at 6.5% though, not 0%. Not a bad price though if you can afford to buy outright.
Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 5:08 pm
by rayofleamington
£3999 to be paid over 4 years on interest free credit.
a new Panda for £4k on interest free credit ?? That sounds too good top be true.
Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 10:04 pm
by HUMBLEPIE
A lady I work with looked into doing a deal for a Fiat 500 scrapping her Volvo and was told by the dealer that as Fiat have no trouble selling the 500 they would't do a scrappage deal, though they might do it later in the year if sales slow. She understood this was a Fiat dirctive.
Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 10:38 pm
by d_harris
rayofleamington wrote:
£3999 to be paid over 4 years on interest free credit.
a new Panda for £4k on interest free credit ?? That sounds too good top be true.
TBH even a 6.5% over 4 years thats not too bad! By my reckoning thats £4,553.27 in total....
Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 8:45 am
by Longdog
Fiat stands for Factory of Italian Automobiles Turin.Another milky fact bought to you courtesy of P.C.
Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 2:19 pm
by Sidney'61
I thought it stood for Fix It Again Tomorrow...
Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 2:32 pm
by ASL642
Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 2:52 pm
by 8009STEVE
I thought it stood for Fix It Again Tomorrow...
Correct!
Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 11:44 am
by tonym911
HUMBLEPIE wrote:A lady I work with looked into doing a deal for a Fiat 500 scrapping her Volvo and was told by the dealer that as Fiat have no trouble selling the 500 they would't do a scrappage deal, though they might do it later in the year if sales slow. She understood this was a Fiat dirctive.
If manufacturers 'sign up' to the scheme (it's not compulsory), they're not allowed/supposed to be selective about including or excluding individual models.