simply put you, would be mad if you took the dealer offer.

would of told the dealer where to stick his crazy offer

Edited 17 March, 201016 yr by amity498

Ok

Div you are right the used example is the white VRS from Beadles Maidstone. I had a test drive and I did push it (had to know how it went). Was up for £17995 now they plan to drop to £16995, never going to get them under what I'm paying for the new one as they want their money back on it. They have a blue one in the showroom too now but I personally think it looks great in white.

Decision made is that I am going to wait for the new one, I just want a new car and not used

Any advice in running a new VRS in, take it easy just for the first 1000 miles (that will be hard)?

Edited 17 March, 201016 yr by Pickings01

Here is another idea:

Decide what price you think is fair for the managers VRS....

Phone lots of other dealers, and haggle for a better new price then they are offering you.

Go back to them; tell them you have found a new car elsewhere cheaper than them, so won't be buying a new one with them; but that you will offer them xyz for the managers car.

That way, the only way they will have a sale is if they concede and offer you the managers car at a sensible price.

At the moment, it is a win-win for them; either of the options they will win, so they are not working hard for your business; create a situation where they stand to lose unless they do you a deal!

As the man on the moneysupermarket.com adverts says; us British can't haggle for toffee ; go back, tell him his VRS is a hatchback not a limousine and that he should offer it to you at a sensible price. Throw the "options only make it more saleable" back at him.

Other than that; order leather as an option on your next one, fit a 2nd hand Columbus when money permits down the line and you can add a bolt on blue tooth at any time - the leather is the only thing that you might want to get it from teh factory with, as it is harder to fit afterwards.

Decision made going for a new one...........................no still thinking about the 59 plate. Have added extra xenon headlights to the original post. Car now has just under 5K miles.

Saw it today, I can get it for the same as my new one - has about £3k+ extra over mine I ordered but no heated seats with the leather! or curtain airbags!.

DTD new with this spec around £18K.

New, get the neeeewww one

Think of how the car must have been driven, those few thousands of miles... It will have suffered a lot. And consider how much you want the leather and the sat nav. Don't forget that the sat nav probably will be stolen, with a lot of damage done to your car...

And decide for the new one. You'll run him in as you want to, it will be brand new, and the things YOU really want will be in it...

I had the MFD3 satnav in my old car for 18 months, it was never stolen and the car was left in some dodgy areas.