I know that list prices have gone, or are going, up but the Arnold Clark website still offers the basic Panda at £4995 under the scrappage scheme. Is this realistic, and if not what is the general price of a 1.1 on scrappage?

My local dealer is advertising 2009 1.1s for £4995

http://www.pdhcars.com/Adverts/Used Advert.htm

Trev

My dealer has sold out displayed for the Active Eco !!
I can only assume that some dealers pre-ordered stock,so you may find you can only get the colour or spec that they have ?

pasotibbs said:

My dealer has sold out displayed for the Active Eco !!
I can only assume that some dealers pre-ordered stock,so you may find you can only get the colour or spec that they have ?

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we ordered one and half way through it was mentioned it would be series 2 which has a different grill... no mention of different costs.. no mention of different 1.2 engines or extra colours... not exactly sure what is going on anymore....

AskCy said:

we ordered one and half way through it was mentioned it would be series 2 which has a different grill... no mention of different costs.. no mention of different 1.2 engines or extra colours... not exactly sure what is going on anymore....

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Slightly different circumstances to the 1.1, but I ordered a 1.2 Dynamic about 6 August, hadn't made my mind up about ordering a second car but when I rang the dealer to see how the order was progressing he informed me that no more series one were being built so mine would be a series two and cost £250 more...I said, are you absolutely sure no series one were available, at that point even offering to buy two and he said he couldn't do it...


I rang another dealer, but again he was convinced he couldn't get me a series one.

So I'm in the same boat, ordered based on series one looks and colours, now I find out I'm getting a series two, dealer was as much in the dark as me regarding spec...In fairness, I'd have been gutted if I'd bought a series one and had to take the instant depreciation hit of the facelifted model coming out.

on the plus side - at least it has the bigger mirrors, colour coded bits and the all important euro 5 compliant 1.2 engine - torquier, more powerful and I suspect more economical than the existing 1.2 and 1.1 units. (69bhp versus 60bhp and 54bhp respectively)

I got mine on the FIAT employee scrappage so 'only' paying around 5400 for each car in expensive black metallic, still a hell of a lot of money to spend on something that has had a spec change...

This new Euro 5 compliant 1.2 seems to come highly recommended

here is a nice link showing the series two and some info on the engines (wasn't announced when I had to change my order at the dealer):
http://www.italiaspeed.com/2009/cars...2010/2609.html