Each to their own I suppose but many Mercedes and BMW SUVs are built in the US and any purchase will attract VAT which will contribute to the EU's coffers.

Not after 31st October it won't.

If you buy the new Toyota supra you are buying a BMW engine and gearbox as the car was developed jointly by the two companies. There are no cars which you can say are country specific

Yeah, I fancy a Mustang, keep meaning to get round to getting a test drive.

Could always support the USA (our oldest and arguably most reliable friend, and now with a pro UK President) by buying a Mustang.

Pro UK when he wants - will be against UK as well depending on what way the wind is blowing when he gets up in the morning.

Thank you for all the replies to my original query. I have not had time to reply until now - I run my own business and have been very busy just recently.

The Mercedes order has been cancelled. Dealer refunded my deposit without a quibble.

I must say that the referendum was a Damascene conversion for me. For something over 25 years I have purchased new BMW or Mercedes cars. However following the referendum result I have come to the realisation that the EU, and especially Germany, are not our friends. In fact the cesspit EU is nothing more than the Fourth Reich in disguise, peddling its own pernicious brand of Socialism. Collectively, by not buying German products, we can thwart their ambitions. I have already replaced my Miele washing machine with a Samsung.

My Grandfather and Father fought in WWI and WWII respectively. I always remember my Grandfather referring to the German language as 'the language of cannibals'. He hated the Germans with a passion and I remember from childhood his war stories - he used to tell us how on one occasion he used a rock to pound the head of a captured German until it was a red paste.

Obviously Lexus is an alternative, however I am not keen to support the Japanese either. I had an uncle who was in Singapore when it fell to the Japanese and he was treated abominably. Jaguar is probably where I need to go. I have never owned a Jaguar, being wary of their quality, however I guess now is the time to support our domestic manufacturers. I'll be off to the dealer once my workload eases a little. I will report back in due course.

I would urge everyone to follow Richard Tice (Leader of the Brexit Party) a thoroughly decent chap who attended the same school as me (Uppingham), although he's a couple of years younger!

Edited by Zippy123 on 07/09/2019 at 15:30

Thank you for all the replies to my original query. I have not had time to reply until now - I run my own business and have been very busy just recently.

The Mercedes order has been cancelled. Dealer refunded my deposit without a quibble.

I must say that the referendum was a Damascene conversion for me. For something over 25 years I have purchased new BMW or Mercedes cars. However following the referendum result I have come to the realisation that the EU, and especially Germany, are not our friends. In fact the cesspit EU is nothing more than the Fourth Reich in disguise, peddling its own pernicious brand of Socialism. Collectively, by not buying German products, we can thwart their ambitions. I have already replaced my Miele washing machine with a Samsung.

My Grandfather and Father fought in WWI and WWII respectively. I always remember my Grandfather referring to the German language as 'the language of cannibals'. He hated the Germans with a passion and I remember from childhood his war stories - he used to tell us how on one occasion he used a rock to pound the head of a captured German until it was a red paste.

Obviously Lexus is an alternative, however I am not keen to support the Japanese either. I had an uncle who was in Singapore when it fell to the Japanese and he was treated abominably. Jaguar is probably where I need to go. I have never owned a Jaguar, being wary of their quality, however I guess now is the time to support our domestic manufacturers. I'll be off to the dealer once my workload eases a little. I will report back in due course.

I would urge everyone to follow Richard Tice (Leader of the Brexit Party) a thoroughly decent chap who attended the same school as me (Uppingham), although he's a couple of years younger!

Whilst I understand the feelings of those who directly fought against German (and Japanese) soldiers in WWII, this does not mean that people who never lived in that period or who have done anything remotely bad should pay the price until the End of Time for what their forebears did - people do change. Yes, we may disagree with what people and governments of other countries do, but we cannot tarr them all with the same brush, nor can we just compare them with those from 75+ years ago just because they share the same heritage. Their actions today count.

And whilst I have no problem and would favour buying a British product that at least matched that of foreign competitors, unless a country was doing something so dire or the firm in question had dubious background or how they produced their products, I would not worry too much about buying things from them.

I (like, I suspect, Mr Tice would do) show solidarity with our US and Commonwealth trading partners at a time when the EU (different to the people of Europe) is hardly being friendly towards us, I wouldn't take it to the extreme of boycotting everything from the Continent or Germany in particular. People naively (in my view) used to 'buy British', especially in terms of cars, which encouraged stagnation in that industry and a raft of poor quality products being offered for sale.

Thank you for all the replies to my original query. I have not had time to reply until now - I run my own business and have been very busy just recently.

The Mercedes order has been cancelled. Dealer refunded my deposit without a quibble.

I must say that the referendum was a Damascene conversion for me. For something over 25 years I have purchased new BMW or Mercedes cars. However following the referendum result I have come to the realisation that the EU, and especially Germany, are not our friends. In fact the cesspit EU is nothing more than the Fourth Reich in disguise, peddling its own pernicious brand of Socialism. Collectively, by not buying German products, we can thwart their ambitions. I have already replaced my Miele washing machine with a Samsung.

My Grandfather and Father fought in WWI and WWII respectively. I always remember my Grandfather referring to the German language as 'the language of cannibals'. He hated the Germans with a passion and I remember from childhood his war stories - he used to tell us how on one occasion he used a rock to pound the head of a captured German until it was a red paste.

Obviously Lexus is an alternative, however I am not keen to support the Japanese either. I had an uncle who was in Singapore when it fell to the Japanese and he was treated abominably. Jaguar is probably where I need to go. I have never owned a Jaguar, being wary of their quality, however I guess now is the time to support our domestic manufacturers. I'll be off to the dealer once my workload eases a little. I will report back in due course.

I would urge everyone to follow Richard Tice (Leader of the Brexit Party) a thoroughly decent chap who attended the same school as me (Uppingham), although he's a couple of years younger!

Your grandfather behaved abominably and deserved to be imprisoned. You cr8ticise the Japanese and yet they did not behave as badly as your grand pops. The EU is not a cesspit, but it is or a cradle of Socialism. It favours big business. Freedom of movement favours big business who don’t want to pay lots for native labour. No tariffs suits big business. Being able to set up a factory in a cheap country favours big business. A lot of the laws are created to favour big business over small eg laws that make it expensive to breed new plant varieties.