Its standard practice for car dealers to advertise new cars at £x000 off the list price.
Gradually this practice spread to £x000 off a pre-registered car or even perhaps a few month old demonstrator.
However lately some of the car supermarkets are advertising £x0000 off quite old second hand cars. Local paper had £7,200 off a 2001 Jaguar. Quite meaningless!
Same paper had a private advert for very old Rover Sterling at £500. I suppose he should have advertised it for £25,000 below list price!
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Like it man :)
In our local paper there's a number of companies that start their advertisement 'Save over 50%' and when you read the small print it says 'When compared to cost of car new' - I mean WTF? Of course you're going to save against 'price when new' DuH!
Amazing what they come out with these days :)
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Try a complaint to the ASA, both for the mis-leading nature of the ad, and the fact that £7,200 off a 4yr old Jag isn't enough!
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A major new housing development is to be built on Weedon Hill in Aylesbury, adjacent to the A413. Running along one boundary of the development is a tiny brook that's at best a muddy trickle.
What's the development rumoured to be called?
"Riverside Park"
::laughs at the breathtaking cheek of it::
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They mean that "when the homes are built, the brook will turn into a flood and your house will be in the river"
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And just how, pray tell, do you see that as related to Motoring ?
Nuts.
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- its the fact that it is next to the A413, where cars run.....
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Hello.
Can we have a discussion area where we can talk about otherthings that are not motoring related.
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(iam not a mechanic)
Martin Winters
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