Hello, first time poster and first time potential new car buyer.
Previous to now I've always bought used cars but my wife is due to give birth to our first kid fairly soon and she's quite keen on this car as a family car. I've taken the 2WD Diesal Premium model for a test drive and for the price was reasonably impressed with performance, interior, extras, etc and the 5 year warranty and car tax band make it more interesting.
The thing is I assumed that because I wasn't looking for a trade in that I should get some kind of movement on the price but the dealer was admant that he had no margin. He claims he gets £600 per car sold and that Hyundai have deliberately squeezed the margin on this car to provide an attractive PCP package. They don't want their dealers discounting the new cars as they need them to maintain their residual value after 3 years. To be honest having never bought a new car and not being familiar with PCP this sounds plausible to me but may be just salesman patter. £600 margin sounds ridiculously low.
This car is very popular at the moment and there is minimum six week wait for delivery. Anyone have any thoughts whether its worth shopping aroound other Hyundai dealers or whether I'm only going to get the same line? .
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