When you’re looking for a new car, as well as deciding exactly what kind of vehicle you’re after and making sure you get as close to that description as possible, it’s a good idea to check out any new car offers before deciding on a particular make and model.
At the moment, each manufacturer and
dealership is offering different incentives to entice people to buy their new
car from them rather than the competitor. Honda, for example, offers flexible
finance packages, a number of years of complimentary servicing on its CR-Z and
Jazz, and with the CR-V it offers an upgrade worth £2,520 for free.
Of course, the offers that come with a new
car aren’t ever enough to convince you to change from another brand that you’re
particularly attached to, but if you’re non-committal about brand and one
offers a better deal than another, the chances are you’d take the better deal.
Another thing to check out is the length of
the warranty that a new car comes with. On the Honda hybrid CR-Z, for
example, the warranty is for three years, but a current new car offer option is
to extend that to four years.
The standard length of warranty is three
years in Europe, but the manufacturer which offers the longest warranty is Kia.
Kia offers a seven year or 100,000 mile warranty on all its models. Similarly,
its parent company Hyundai offers a five year warranty with unlimited mileage
and Fiat has a five year warranty on some of its models.
Of course, buying a new car is far more
expensive than buying a second hand one. And as soon as you leave the showroom
or forecourt, the car depreciates in value considerably, so you have to weigh
up the advantages of any new car offers against the extra cost involved.
