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[Mister Rog]

Some years ago (lots of years ago!) I bought a brand spanking new Volvo. After agreeing the purchase I turned up in the showroom with my chequebook (Remember them ?) The sales guy somehow pursuaded me to take out some kind of finance deal. Ended up paying for ages instead of getting it all done and dusted. Never did it again, and now more than ever, if I don't have the cash I don't buy it. A car is simply not that important. Well, not to me.

[Andy B]

Finance is for fools, as my old gran used to say.

Depends whether you have the ability/means to pay it back

[tigers_gonads]

Shitreon did the same to my old man a couple of years ago 

Standard dealer rip off ploy to shaft yeh arse sadly 

[2boxerdogs]

Some years ago (lots of years ago!) I bought a brand spanking new Volvo. After agreeing the purchase I turned up in the showroom with my chequebook (Remember them ?) The sales guy somehow pursuaded me to take out some kind of finance deal. Ended up paying for ages instead of getting it all done and dusted. Never did it again, and now more than ever, if I don't have the cash I don't buy it. A car is simply not that important. Well, not to me.

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Exactly , live within your means why get ripped off?  I would not want to put one penny extra into some slimy sales persons pocket screen price less 20% is where I always start, no lump of metal is worth getting into debt for.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Hope you asked for plenty off screen price, cash is king if they don't play ball walk away always worked for me .👌

This certainly used to be the case.........and with a private sale still is.

They wanted everything on a nice fat (for them) finance package.

The screen price  dropped by £5000 a few days before the September 1st '66 plate' arrived.

[BazaJT]

Yes indeed Wartburg was a three cylinder two stroke with a separate coil and plug lead for each cylinder.Could embarrass quite a few more "powerful"cars off the line but was soon dead in the water!At least that's how I recall my Knight being.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Yes indeed Wartburg was a three cylinder two stroke with a separate coil and plug lead for each cylinder.Could embarrass quite a few more "powerful"cars off the line but was soon dead in the water!At least that's how I recall my Knight being.

Manufactured in the former East Germany (GDR), I think.

[STEMO]

Yes indeed Wartburg was a three cylinder two stroke with a separate coil and plug lead for each cylinder.Could embarrass quite a few more "powerful"cars off the line but was soon dead in the water!At least that's how I recall my Knight being.

Manufactured in the former East Germany (GDR), I think.

Along with the Trabant. Now that was a car everyone should learn to drive in.

[johnnydog]

I'm a Zastava man myself....
When my wife wanted a new Honda CRV, it was on 0% finance. Why not, we thought? But when you checked the list price of the same car 12 months before, it was about £3000 cheaper. There's very little in this world 'for free', as people like to say, but being grammatically correct should it not be just 'free' or 'for nothing'?

[TD]

Theres no such thing as a 'free lunch'