Lovemyev
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These are likely to be orders that some customers had become fed up of the LONG wait times.I don't understand, Luscombe's in Leeds had about 15 unregistered new vehicles(all LR Trophy's I believe) to sell according to the salesman only a couple of weeks ago. I decided I wanted a ZS EV LR Trophy Connect last Weds, paid for it Friday and had it delivered yesterday. Albeit mine was a pre-reg so not brand new but I could have had a brand new one that they had in stock for a couple of £k more.
Strange there's people waiting over a year for their car yet the same cars sat in dealerships waiting to be sold.
The customer cancels, but the dealer retains the order and uses them for stock.
Deals that have been made in the past ( maybe on lower finance rates / agreed high trade in prices etc ) have now long gone.
So, the dealer registers the car in it's own name and then moves it on as a "pre-reg" car to a walk in customer off the street.
Similar to an X Demo model, but much better IMO.
I have bought a few pre-reg cars over the years and these are brand new cars in every sense of the word, but are viewed as a second hand sale on the books.
Many of these cars have less than 20 miles on the clock.
When I have sold on these cars at a later date, the affect on it's value is extremely small, if anything at all.
Many people view this type of practice as completely normal practice in the motor trade.
It has been going on for donkeys years.
I remember about 30 years ago when Ford decided it wanted to increase it's car sale figures quickly in the rankings.
It shipped hundreds of Fiesta's and Escort over to Jersey then had drivers put about 20 miles on the clock and then shipped them back to the main land of the U.K.
They where then all sold off through many of the auction sites up and down the country and second hand car dealers flocked to snap them up !.
All brand new cars with less than 50 miles on the clock, absolute bargains.
I bought one for my wife ? .