Am now thinking of a Panda 100hp instead of a grande sporting multijet, and on speaking to a Fiat dealer today, he informed me that the reason i couldn't get their 5% finance special offer was because the 100hp is in fact a limited edition, and will only be produced for a certain length of time??

Anyone know anything about this?

balls, the only panda excluded is the alessi, check the promotions on the fiat.co.uk site for confirmation, and ask the salesman to as well, if he wont,glynn hopkins in romford certainly will

Thanks for that, tbh on their own website it doesn't mention anything about it, ill be damned if im going to pay 10%apr for one! Its taken me long enough to find a semi local dealer who will give me one at list price as it is, the local Stoneacre fiat dealer wants 10,360 for a pre registered 56 plate one!

where are you based? have a look on the fiat site,

http://www.fiat.co.uk/cgi-bin/pbran...didgkcefecejgdfiidgnj.0&contentOID=1074095344

it's the 5 for 5% section

You can definatly get the Panda 100HP on the 5% finance as i have just ordered mine on it. £10,355 is the standard price if you want a coloured one the only one at £9995 is in white.
Hope this helps
Let us know how u get on and what u order!!

Don't take any crap about no discount because it's a limited edition, it appears as a standard model in the 2007 Panda brochure, my local dealer tried this on and then had no trouble giving me a big discount when it came to deal time.

Offered me the 5 for 5 as well if I'd wanted finance.

Dealers generally are not charging for metallic paint. Despite what the brochure says. In fact my dealer deliberately priced the car lower so that when metallic paint was added the price came to £9995 - and they had a 0% finance offer on at the time (early December 2006)

The most you should pay for standard 100HP with metallic paint and no further options is £9995 - that's it.

Check out Autotrader for all the pre-registered deals and prices. It's worth travelling a bit to pick up a virtually new car with minimal mileage around the £9K mark.

I'm frankly shocked to hear that a dealer is selling the 100HP and charging for metallic paint on top of the £9995 OTR price.

Do your research, decide what you'd be happy paying and try to stick to it.

Make it obvious you're prepared to buy there and then if their price is right. Ask the dealer for their best price (it may be lower than you're expecting, so always get that first), tell them what you've been quoted elsewhere and see what they say (lie if you want but keep it realistic and quote a source, they're unlikely to check). If you get a price you like fine but if the dealer won't get there straight away, walk away and tell them you're not happy but will think about it and I'd put money on them ringing you in the next day or two and either matching what you asked for or at worse a much better offer).

The worse that can happen is you'll have to give in and accept what they've quoted but if you do make it conditional on having something thrown in, every Panda needs mats and a locking petrol cap so thats £40 quid sweeter straight away, you could also try for some free servicing.

You should be able to get closer to 9k for a new one, perhaps better depending on your will power.

Don't take no crap from the dealers your in control. It's there job to sell the car to you!

When the Mrs was looking for a Eleganza the Fiat we went to didn't have any but the sales man offered us a 56 reg 100hp in the dark silver colour. His exact words were "That 100hp outside is normally 10K brand new, but if you take that one (it had 200 miles on clock) you can have it for £8500". This was January so maybe they had had a quiet few weeks!

We didn't take it because it was out of our price range and not the image my mrs wanted. Mind you I almost considered part ex-ing my Alfa

Carlo said:

Mind you I almost considered part ex-ing my Alfa

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I managed the best of both worlds Carlo - bought the 100HP and kept my ALFA GTV 3.0 V6.