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Monday February 21, 2005

The car purchase

I said when I made my mind up on my car purchase that if all went well I would say from who purchased the car. Well as I have had the car for two weeks now and ( hastily touches wood) as is well I can now tell you how I chose where to buy it from.

I used Drive the deal You basically fill in the car you want, add the options and they tell you what the current price is. If you then want to go ahead you provide further details and the next thing is the dealer contacts you. My car came from Aberdeen in Scotland on the back of a lorry. Hopefully it did not fall off it. Drive the deal guarantee the car is brand new , not already licenced, direct from the factory and not an import. As I have said before they clearly use dealers who are struggling to sell their quota of cars.

My garage in Aberdeen were very good, polite and everything happened on time. A small deposit was neeed to secure the order which was confirmed by a fax. I would certainly recommend this method of purchase for anyone buying a new car. I saved around a thousand pounds.

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Awsome! In canada, we have less of a choice of TDI's then europe. We are getting the new jetta(bora) this month. http://www.vw.ca/vwca/presentation/ca_m_newjetta/0,3198,40,00.html You may want to checkout http://www.k9spud.com/vwcdpic The forums can help if you want to build one.

Posted by Karl on February 21, 2005 at 07:07 AM PST #

Yes the Golf TDi is a nice package. 140BHP and I am getting 40 MPG on a very urban cycle. Crazy as it may seem diesel is more expensive over here than petrol but its still worth having a diesel because of the extra MPG.

Posted by Paul Humphreys on February 21, 2005 at 08:42 AM PST #