Foreign Perspectives

We were thinking of buying our car in the UK this time in that we’re sort-of expecting to be there fairly soon.

Then we looked at the prices.

How many times have there been European investigations into the overlly high car prices in the UK and yet still the price difference we found was around 30% or more on exactly the same car. Well, perhaps not exactly the same. Sure, the steering wheel is at the other side but then we bought a Japanese car and seeing as they drive on the left themselves, the European version should cost more as clearly it needs to be modified into a car for driving on the right.

Last time we bought a car there were differences in the specification in that the French car didn’t have a CD player nor radio whereas the UK model did. However, adding a CD/radio would have added, at best, £200 to the car (the French car was fully wired for it) yet the UK model cost something like £2000 more.

Must be time for another European investigation into UK car prices.