Another Price Hike?

[Tracky]

Or pay cash

[crockers]

Or pay cash

Agree. I never take finance unless it's a 0%. Both my Volvos were on these deals. 50% down. Rest over 2 years.

[Wolands Advocate]

Or pay cash

Agree. I never take finance unless it's a 0%. Both my Volvos were on these deals. 50% down. Rest over 2 years.

Mmm. But that also illustrates a point - I certainly never came across a 0% offer on a car I actually wanted to buy or, alternatively, if it was something I wanted to buy, that didn't also suffer savage depreciation.

Best I ever managed was 1.9% on my last car (BMW 440i Gran Coupe), along with a 20% discount, which meant that when I sold it after 6 yrs and 50k miles, I got back 50% of what I paid for it (including interest), which seemed decent. But those sorts of offers are long gone. At least for the time being.

[Tracky]

Or pay cash

Agree. I never take finance unless it's a 0%. Both my Volvos were on these deals. 50% down. Rest over 2 years.

Mmm. But that also illustrates a point - I certainly never came across a 0% offer on a car I actually wanted to buy or, alternatively, if it was something I wanted to buy, that didn't also suffer savage depreciation.

Best I ever managed was 1.9% on my last car (BMW 440i Gran Coupe), along with a 20% discount, which meant that when I sold it after 6 yrs and 50k miles, I got back 50% of what I paid for it (including interest), which seemed decent. But those sorts of offers are long gone. At least for the time being.

Lotus did a 2 year 0% a while back

They don’t lose much money at all

[Wolands Advocate]

Pre-Emira I'd guess, in which case they weren't making anything I wanted to buy...

[Tracky]

Pre-Emira I'd guess, in which case they weren't making anything I wanted to buy...

True

[Wolands Advocate]

I'm not being in any way rude about the Lotus range - there's a difference between "want" and "want to buy"...

[GeeRam]

Agree. I never take finance unless it's a 0%. Both my Volvos were on these deals. 50% down. Rest over 2 years.

Mmm. But that also illustrates a point - I certainly never came across a 0% offer on a car I actually wanted to buy or, alternatively, if it was something I wanted to buy, that didn't also suffer savage depreciation.

Best I ever managed was 1.9% on my last car (BMW 440i Gran Coupe), along with a 20% discount, which meant that when I sold it after 6 yrs and 50k miles, I got back 50% of what I paid for it (including interest), which seemed decent. But those sorts of offers are long gone. At least for the time being.

Lotus did a 2 year 0% a while back

They don’t lose much money at all

Probably because they spend more time in the dealerships being fixed than on the road, so all low miles and little used

[Tracky]

Mmm. But that also illustrates a point - I certainly never came across a 0% offer on a car I actually wanted to buy or, alternatively, if it was something I wanted to buy, that didn't also suffer savage depreciation.

Best I ever managed was 1.9% on my last car (BMW 440i Gran Coupe), along with a 20% discount, which meant that when I sold it after 6 yrs and 50k miles, I got back 50% of what I paid for it (including interest), which seemed decent. But those sorts of offers are long gone. At least for the time being.

Lotus did a 2 year 0% a while back

They don’t lose much money at all

Probably because they spend more time in the dealerships being fixed than on the road, so all low miles and little used

Have had 3 and given them a hard life and on the whole they have been reliable

[wab172uk]

Agree. I never take finance unless it's a 0%. Both my Volvos were on these deals. 50% down. Rest over 2 years.

Mmm. But that also illustrates a point - I certainly never came across a 0% offer on a car I actually wanted to buy or, alternatively, if it was something I wanted to buy, that didn't also suffer savage depreciation.

Best I ever managed was 1.9% on my last car (BMW 440i Gran Coupe), along with a 20% discount, which meant that when I sold it after 6 yrs and 50k miles, I got back 50% of what I paid for it (including interest), which seemed decent. But those sorts of offers are long gone. At least for the time being.

Lotus did a 2 year 0% a while back

They don’t lose much money at all

Same with Toyota. GR-Yaris at 0% for 2 years.

Think they expected to struggle selling it. And yet quite the opposite happened.