Lagamorph wrote:The days of "Discount for cash" are pretty much gone with car buying in the UK. Most places will probably give you a better deal for finance since then they'll get a commission from the finance company as well as the sale of the car.
That sucks. The dealers here will normally try and push you towards finance, since they get a commission, but the rebates come directly from the manufacturers who I guess prefer to have the cash all at once, at least that's how it works here.
Oh, one more thing regarding cash discounts, some car companies have them for various things like recent graduates, or members of the military etc. I think we got another $500 off since my wife had finished school within 3 years of us buying our car.
We also had very good rebates on electric cars up until about a year ago when they were done away with by the new government, something like up to $10,000 iirc.