Grande Punto follows Bravo

The official announcement won't be made until tomorrow, so I'm a still a bit sketchy about the finer details, but from a conversation I had with Fiat today it would seem that from 1st July 2008 until at least 30th September 2008, all new UK Grande Punto will come with the same 5 year manufacturer warranty offered on Bravo.

All of a sudden the price increase doesn't look so bad

5 years of going to and from the dealership every other day

At least it'll be cheaper

thats pretty funny but kinda true..ive had enough of going to the dealers in mine..but 5 year is good...is this a fiat warranty for 5 years or a fiat then dealer warranty..Mine has just run out of Fiat warranty and now on the 3rd year delaer warranty which is different.

Fiat warranty, same as Bravo.

Suddenly buying a new Fiat sounds more tempting

that will nicely mess up the residuals of my punto when i come to sell it in 2 years. why would you buy a 4 year old GP with no warrenty rather then a 3 year old with 2 years of warrenty left. bah humbug

Yup.... even more reason to keep it like they do abroad... run it into the ground then buy sometin else...

Fiat ar offering 0% over 3 years & unlimited mileage warranty on GP's at the moment.

Wonder what you could get off the retail price by haggling too.

okay.................................

I think you'll find that the finance deals are partly to offset the heavy discounting. A lot of folks are still happy to pay list price or haggle a bit of discount. They rarely fight for big discounts like you could get via a broker or fiatsupasaver. I think you'd maybe get 10% off and 0% finance but no more.

What does that mean

Nothing i just didnt get what the point of the thread was thats all.

Damn , why couldn't they have done that when i bought my GP

I've found a couple of my local dealers will match broker prices (motor provider, autofinders, etc) when asked - but the downside was that the price was locked into you doing an abusive finance deal with them.

Therefore they'd match the basic price, but i would've ended up paying £25 per month more than simply getting a personal loan from my bank.