https://news.bmw.co.uk/article/the-bmw-lower-emissions-allowance/

Looks like you hand them the keys to a Euro 4 or earlier diesel, they give you £2000 towards a new BMW, seems like no questions asked on the condition of the old car.

 

I'm wondering whether this is the ticket to trade in our second car: 135k miles 56'reg Mercedes C class coupe. Trade-in price was quoted to be £1250 a few months ago when I was looking at Hyundai Ioniq before my Octavia, I think the dealer may stretch to £1500 if it all comes down to this.

 

Or wait for the rumoured government scrappage scheme, but that may not include Euro 4 cars, it also may not apply to me due to possible income restrictions. The amount may also be less.

 

I just want to get maximum money out of the no longer useful car. As a family, we'll be looking to get an EV as second car to the Octavia.

There is talk of any scrappage scheme being means tested and certainly not as free and easy as the last one.

 

A 2k trade in on a car nominally worth £1250 against a new beemer is ok as long as the new beemer isn't £750 more expensive than you would have otherwise got.

 

 Unless the numbers work out in your favour it's helping the dealer not you. so look at the cost to change closely.

Just like car 'sales'. £500 pounds off all cars (including your trade-in).

 

I spent close to £30k on mine and I had to haggle just as hard to get a little off as I did with a £10k car. Just because it's a premium marque don't think they have big margins to work with.

 

 

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I had an email from my local BMW dealer about them "wanting" my diesel car for £2000 discount. The sceptical part of me reckons that they are simply trying to boost sales off the back of the anti-diesel hype, and that the 2k discount was already within their margin. I.e. Could you get 2k off a broker's price, rather than a dealer's price? I suspect not.

gift horses and mouth springs to mind

More like a Trojan Horse.    

 

Open the mouth, check how old the old nag is,

seeing as BMW are a German Manufacturer and really taking the pith.

We gettin shafted...

Only an offer of €2000 being offered in ROI...

I know exchange rate is a bit meh at the moment, but still...

Now a big Skoda Dealership is selling discounted cars because they need room at the Stock Facility.

 

Right, so nothing to do with Skoda UK drop in sales right now due to a VW Group Diesels Scandal then the Scandal of failing vehicles after 'The Fix' and VW, SEAT, Audi & Skoda seeming to be in denial that premature hardware part failures have anything to do with the revised engine management that 'The Fix' is.

£2000 off the list price of a BMW isn't really offering you anything as they are well known for giving large discounts on new vehicles. More a marketing ploy for the gullible

Maybe now that Theresa May MP/PM is back from her 'Walking Talking Stalking holiday' and has more idea what the German & French Leaders wants she can 

get Philip Hammond MP, Chris Grayling MP and the tea boy Michael Gove MP to get together and tell the UK Motoring Public what the plans are for this year, next and the one after and then vehicle buyers / leasers will know where they stand.

 

Not going to happen though because they are crapping themselves about the Car Manufacturers & Car Trade but mostly about the Banks & Financial Institutions because the vehicles that are out their owned buy Banks & Financial Institutions and the possible collapse in value of New cars in stock, and used cars and cars currently leased and financed.

Happy days

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/12/million-cars-bought-finance-deals-amid-warnings-negative-equity/

 

Plus with the £ on the slide again I'd expect car prices to be on the up.

Negative equity on car loans shock!

 

This has only been going on since HP was invented.

 

Someone on here was trying to offload a PCP vehicle at the halfway (time) point, turned out the halfway point monetarily was about 26 months into a 30 month lease!

 

Non-news in the Telegraph. You'd expect better.

 

 

^^^ Different times though than the past decades of the never never

,  BCA (British Car Auctions) lend money to Car Dealers / Dealerships to buy used cars for their stock, Motability Sell 3 Year old Cars via BCA but then they were bought cheap anyway before being leased, 

WBAC & others are buying cheap, punting to dealers to sell for more, finance etc and all rely of cheap money borrowed to buy and easy finance to be able to sell.

All these much cheapness vehicles being returned and people do not want to buy a out of manufacturers vehicle with Cash or on the drip when New Ones are still 

dead cheap because finance is dead cheap.

 

The crash had to come sometime and coming it is.

Mercedes is also offering similar, though calls it trade-in bonus, I wonder if it means £2000 on top of the bonus trading in value of the car?

http://www.mercedes-benz.co.uk/content/unitedkingdom/mpc/mpc_unitedkingdom_website/en/home_mpc/passengercars/home/latest-offers/diesel-changeover-bonus.html

 

But they are not very forward thinking with their EV range, only a B class compliance car that doesn't do fast charging => useless as a car!

 

 

VW is rumoured will be offering the same soon. I wonder if I can get an e-Golf.....

118d Sport 5-door

Automatic

Mediterranean Blue

10

2017-07

LA17WZC

£27,590

£21,170

 

a saving of £6420 pre-registered.

A somewhat better deal, methinks