(G) NEW Discounted 500s at car supermarkets

dealers I know are trying to get more as customer list is growing! However they (customers) want the car they ordered (and want) and not anyone elses cancelled etc order.

Fair play to them if they want specific car made for them and can afford to just pay whatever it costs.

They can subsidise the rest of us who arent as minted.

But IMO its Fappin fantastic that discounts are already around for people on a budget and so soon after the launch.

If these couple of supermarkets can do it, does it mean more will start to do soon. WTF is slough anyway - I want bargains for us up north too

£900 is the best discount i have seen mentioned

Cant find OVER 1000 off yet.Can anybody. I will take figs to my boss when they are 1000+ cheaper than thought.

Just go and get a better paid job... if you cant afford £7900 for a new car then you must be very badly paid
Why has your boss got to know how much the car is?

How much does a dealer make from a deal........certainly isn't £1000 !

So wheres the catch.....you tell me

Ms Cinq zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

The average wage in the UK is just under £24,000 p.a. A lot of people are not able to fork out £7900 for a new car. Love cars as much as I do there are more important things.

JON

JON

Totally agree. I find it hard to justify spending more than £10K even though I could probably afford to. Like you say there are more important things in life like holidays, eating out, property etc etc. I normally buy used cars which means I can get what I want, you just have to buy older for the pricier stuff.

I'm glad to see cars are now available with a discount. Plenty of people won't be that bothered about the exact spec. As this is one of the rare times when I buy a new car I'm speccing it to what I want.....if that spec happened to be available at a discount I'd be off to wherever the discount was.

The prices are set at the moment because we all want to have a 500 so the dealers don't need to offer incentives and if Fiat prohibit discounts then unless everyone digs there heels in and stops buying them.......it ain't going to change until the demand begins to fall off.

Hello everyone. New to this so please be gentle!!

Went to my local dealer in Gloucester on Friday to look at a different car, saw about ten unregistered 500's on the forecourt - thought they were for orders. Asked a salesman, apparently Fiat had supplied them with 30 cars (cancelled orders or stock from dealers that have lost their franchise). Had a choice of colours and spec. Test drove on yesterday, decided on a Pasodoble Red 1.2 Sport with Red Leather. Not got any discount, but they a popping a few accessories on for me FOC. The best bit is that I can pick it up Monday afternoon. IMO being able to pick up a car straight away is better than getting a discount but having to wait 3 months! Also, not sure if I would have had any other options if I had ordered the car, and some can be added as aftermarket accessories.

They said they are having another 10 cars in on Tuesday. They had a mixture of 1.2's and 1.4's.

Maybe other dealers are in the same position.

When you are getting your car on Monday whilst we are still waiting since January. You expect us to be gentle!

Congrats on the purchase, you will have to redeem yourself with some pics!

Cheers
Baldrick

Seconded.

I ordered over a month ago and I have to wait until early May!! To be fair, it was a factory order, nonetheless still TOO long.

What kind of statement is that do you even know how much it costs to try and get a mortgage in my area as a first time buyer i have two jobs just so i can get a house one day which will cost me £900+ a month excluding bills.

I buy Italian cars because, a) I'm an Italophile (I believe you can get cream for it and it clears up in about 30 years) and b) you can get a lot of different, interesting car for not a lot of money. But, there is always a balance to be struck. There are 2 reasons why BMWs are so popular, one is that they are seen as desirable and the 500 is definitely that and the other is that they hold their value so well. Why the high values? Well, mainly because of the desirablility, but also because BMW have managed for years to keep just the right balance between supply and demand. As soon as dealers order more than just a few in for stock they are faced with the problem of how to pay for them. I'm a bit out of touch, but dealers always used to have to pay for their stock after 90 days. Trust me, if that's still the case, then after 2 months dealer principals and accountants start to get very twitchy and start doing silly deals. If they are under too much pressure from the manufacturer to take large numbers of cars then only 1.2 Pops in base colours will end up on forecourts and the whole idea of personalised cars goes out the window. Think of how many 1.2 Active Grande Puntos are in stock at dealers as opposed to 1.4 Dynamics or 16v Sportings or even MJTs. Keeping the most popular models in stock makes sense but if the balance isn't right then the Marque suffers and the dealers go out of business as we've seen recently. Ultimately the customer suffers. You don't see Mini dealers punting their stock out of the window like they're desperate to get rid. Maybe we just need to accept that the age of the cheaper FIAT has gone.

LOL, let me explain... Ms Cinq is a bit of a nightmare on here Its a wind up, sense of humour etc etc Gawd I so hate this new PC age we live in

don't worry nuova, pc is sooo out...unpc is a breath of fresh air and makes for MUCH more interesting reading

my table came from argos 9 months ago but i'm still waiting for the chairs...... you people think you got problems!