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Buying cars in Europe

Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2015 1:32 am
by pete
Would now be a profitable time to buy from the Eurozone?

Did it once and it worked out very well...

Re: Buying cars in Europe

Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2015 6:50 am
by rossybee
Spose it very much depends on what you're picking up??

Re: Buying cars in Europe

Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2015 7:41 am
by tut
Probably an Internet bride/housekeeper............

tut

Re: Buying cars in Europe

Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2015 1:32 pm
by pete
I was wondering why you don't seem to hear about it anymore - the Euro is at 1.4 to the pound which is very cheap...

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Re: Buying cars in Europe

Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2015 1:57 pm
by woody
I've been buying bike stuff in Europe but not cars. Maybe it's because so many cars are leased or PCP'd here now?

Re: Buying cars in Europe

Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2015 2:12 pm
by highlander
tut wrote:Probably an Internet bride/housekeeper............

tut
:damnfunny

Re: Buying cars in Europe

Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2015 2:31 pm
by pete
tut wrote:Probably an Internet bride/housekeeper............

tut

I would love a housekeeper.

Re: Buying cars in Europe

Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2015 2:33 pm
by pete
woody wrote:I've been buying bike stuff in Europe but not cars. Maybe it's because so many cars are leased or PCP'd here now?

Good point - i don't really understand leasing (because I run sheds probably).

A lot of the bits for Millie's MTB came from bike-discount.de where are you getting yoru bits from?

(Exits stage left to look at bikes - we need to go out again)

Re: Buying cars in Europe

Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2015 4:50 pm
by woody
Bike24.de, some Spanish place via Amazon (had vouchers) for shoes and voidcycling for a couple if bits.

Re: Buying cars in Europe

Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2015 8:35 am
by Corranga
At the height of importing new Euro cars into the UK (when you found private dealers setting up to do it) it wasn't just a currency thing, it was also a big rip off Britain thing, with cars costing much more here anyway.

I remember by dad buying his first new car in 1998, an Alfa 156 which cost something like £18.5k. The same new car 2 years later cost something like £15k as prices were brought in line with the rest of Europe.

Re: Buying cars in Europe

Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2015 10:07 am
by pete
'99 first new car. Elise 111s from Holland...

(But the currency is REALLY cheap...)

Re: Buying cars in Europe

Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2015 3:08 pm
by Ferg

Re: Buying cars in Europe

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 9:03 pm
by smee