Posts Tagged ‘new cars’

Brighton Gets a Bit Greener

Brighton has recently made the announcement that is going to install 20 roadside charging stations for electric vehicles. This is all part of a big scheme to enable Brighton to become more of a Zero-emission city.
One question we have to ask is do people with electric cars think they are bigger and better than [...]

Demand Rises For Used Cars As New Car Prices Rise

For the past 12 months, every piece of news about the motoring industry has been about how it’s been so badly effected by the recession. Every week there is a new story of how the motoring industry is suffering because people simply aren’t choosing to buy a new Alfa Romeo. However, there are sectors of [...]

Purchase Your Used Car Privatley

Thousands if not millions of people every individual year buy used cars for sale, the reason people purchase used cars is because they simply hold their value much more then new cars would. I mean as soon as you purchase a new car it immediately drops thousands of pounds. But there are not many used cars [...]

Buying a Second Hand Car

Making a decision to buy a car is only half the battle; you then need to think about new or used cars for sale. For some the cost of a new car is simply out of the budget that they have planned for their vehicle. A used car offers a buyer the option to get [...]

Jaguar Release their New XJ Model in London

Car manufacturer Jaguar have released their new XJ model in London. The XJ is the newer version of the XF model and just like the XF, the new XJ will need to bring in a lot of sales.
The sales that had been generated from the previous XF model helped the company to get out [...]

Are Government Scrappage Schemes for Old Cars Really Making a Difference?

The American government is following in the footsteps of many European countries and proposing a ‘cash for clunkers’ scheme to try and encourage buyers back into the struggling car market. The scheme will offer an incentive of up to $4,500 to owners of old cars getting 18 miles per gallon (mpg) or less if they [...]

Are ‘Green’ Cars Really as Bad as Their Reputation Suggests?

When it comes to buying new cars, a lot of people fall in to one of two groups – those who don’t particularly care about the car itself, and will be looking for the cheapest option or the least likely to break down, and petrol heads who want the fastest, sleekest, coolest car they can [...]

Best Convertibles To Soak Up The Sun

Summer is almost here and what better way to make the most of the long days and sunny weather than driving about in a brand new cool convertible? It might sound like an expensive luxury, but it really doesn’t have to cost as much as you’d think, and you won’t have to fork out to [...]

Scrappage scheme has no effect yet as car sales drop by 25%

UK sales of new cars were down by a quarter in May compared to the same time last year, despite the government’s introduction of a £300m scrappage scheme to encourage buyers back into the new car market. Sales have tumbled by 24.8%, meaning that sales have dropped for 13 consecutive months.
A total of 289,958 [...]

Car Scrappage Scheme has no effect on UK car sales

The Government’s £300m car scrappage scheme launched last month and has proven to have no real effect after sales figures were released that showed a 24% drop in new car sales.
The Government’s car scrappage scheme is a system that provides consumers with £2000 if they scrap a car that’s over 10 years old for a [...]