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To: "Mgs@Autox.Team.Net (E-mail)" <mgs@autox.team.net>
Subject: FW: cheaper cars for the British
From: Gordon Bird <gb@the-bdc.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 15:20:13 -0500
Picked this up from the Audi Quattro list.  Maybe would could get a similar
version for an MGF here in the US?
Jeff Z, waddya think?


> Tuesday March 28, 5:07 PM
> 
> 
> Who you gonna call? Carbusters.com!
> 
> By David Williams, Motoring Correspondent 
> 
> An audacious assault on "rip-off" new car prices was launched 
> today by the 
> Consumers' Association which fired up an on-line importation 
> service for "cheap" 
> cars. 
> 
> Carbusters.com is offering thousands of motorists the chance 
> to buy cars from 
> overseas dealers at huge savings. It is bound to alarm 
> traditional car dealers 
> and manufacturers who have been under intense pressure 
> through falling sales to 
> private buyers. 
> 
> As part of the association's Great British Rip-Off campaign 
> first unveiled at 
> the London Motor Show last year, the service is available to 
> any internet user. 
> During exhaustive three-month trials 83 cars with full UK 
> specifications, worth 
> more than £1.5 million, were ordered using the CA's service. 
> 
> According to the organisation, which has consistently accused 
> car firms of 
> overcharging British customers, buyers saved more than 
> £270,000 by using 
> carbusters.com during trial runs. 
> 
> Average savings were £3,000 to £4,000 per car during the 
> pilot phase which 
> coincided with a call from the CA for buyers to boycott 
> traditional car 
> dealerships. 
> 

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