New car buying decision

SCP440 · 14th January 2019, 17:30

I was speaking to a friend this after noon who was after a new Petrol Volvo 4 months ago, the dealer gave him a delivery date of March this year with practically no discount

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He offered him the same car in Diesel in a higher spec with over £2000 of extras and the same colour with a delivery date of less than week and he got about £1500 off the list price . They have also given him a guaranteed minimum buy back price in 3 years if it has under 40k miles on it. That strikes me as being desperate.

Does it really take that long at car plants to switch the diesel engine plant off or switch it to petrol engines?

14th January 2019, 17:30	#8
SCP440 I really should get out more....... MG ZT-T 260 Join Date: Feb 2016 Location: Witney Posts: 2,504 Thanks: 6 Thanked 910 Times in 571 Posts	I was speaking to a friend this after noon who was after a new Petrol Volvo 4 months ago, the dealer gave him a delivery date of March this year with practically no discount . He offered him the same car in Diesel in a higher spec with over £2000 of extras and the same colour with a delivery date of less than week and he got about £1500 off the list price . They have also given him a guaranteed minimum buy back price in 3 years if it has under 40k miles on it. That strikes me as being desperate. Does it really take that long at car plants to switch the diesel engine plant off or switch it to petrol engines?