Beware Of Old Banger Bonus

[ColinC1]

The goverment has isssued an incentive to people with old bangers (10 years old cars or over) and get £2k off a new car.

 

Now this sounds good assuming people who have old cars and wanting new, have the cash to buy.

 

But beware, in some Citroen dealers that they are removing the cashback bonus from the C1.

 

What this means is that before this bonus was intoduced, the on the road price of a standard C1 vibe was £6300 (which takes the cashback figure into account).

 

Now when you go into the dealer the C1 vibe has a price on the windscreen at over £8000. In other words they have taken the cashback figure off the car. (this percentage increase is on every model of the C1)

 

This means that the old banger buyer will not get much off at all, even with the so called £2k incentive, and it is even worse for existing owners of a C1 who wants to tradein for another C1, or if you are trading in any other newer car, because they have to start with a new car price of over £8000, instead of £6300.

 

I would advise everyone only to deal with dearships who advertise the lower cashback price to begin with, ie, £6300 for C1 vibe, etc, then start negociating your trade-in price.

 

Car dealers are always such stealers, they just don't change.

 

PS.. I am not sure if they are also doing this similar scam with the 107 and aygo, so watch out.

[downsman]

Good point Colin ;)

 

I've noticed C1s are being advertised at just over £6000 after the old banger discount. As we all know, that's what everyone was paying before the scheme. It is even worse than you say, because previously the cash came off the dealer/Citroen profit. Now we're all paying for the discounts in our taxes!

[techbod]

so my DS is worth 2k well guess what they can stuff that right up their a-ss.

[ColinC1]

Is it the early DS model with the 'following round the bend' headlights, connected by rods to the steering rack?

 

That was an innovation for its time, and only now being copied by other car companies, using computer controlled motorised headlights.