Car Buying

[powerdesal]

Recent UK press articles have said that its a great time to buy in UK as very heavily discounted prices are possible, particularly with a bit of haggling.

How is France in this respect, are the dealers open to discounting in the same way?

[Chancer]

2 million unsold cars in storage, all the major manufacturers announcing short time or redundancies coinciding with payment time for all taxes and Christmas............

"Une remise monsieur?  vous-vous moquez de moi?!" [:P]

[powerdesal]

Thanks JR, I like that [:D]

Unfortunately (maybe) I wont be buying until some time in 2009. Maybe 'le crunch' will still be helping buyers.

[woolybanana]

Big discounts about at the moment and even bigger next year by the sound of it:

http://www.lefigaro.fr/conso/2008/11/28/05007-20081128ARTFIG00294-en-vous-pourrez-acheter-une-voiture-neuve-a-moitie-prix-.php

 

[Chancer]

Actually Woolly I did see a report like that the other night of FR3 but after having spent all week trying to encourage  every "Negoce materiaux" within a 100 mile radius of me to actually "negotiate", with once again a total lack of success, I cant somehow imagine that supply and demand economics is going to filter down as far as "Planet Picardie".

Still it was only a €3000 euro order [:)]

[powerdesal]

[quote user="woolybanana"]

Big discounts about at the moment and even bigger next year by the sound of it:

http://www.lefigaro.fr/conso/2008/11/28/05007-20081128ARTFIG00294-en-vous-pourrez-acheter-une-voiture-neuve-a-moitie-prix-.php

 

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So I can expect to pay about E14000 for a E28000 motor ?   I will believe it if it happens.