Hot car deals, 20 May 2009Luxury German motors for less
20 May 2009
Market Watch - new and used car deals
Our latest trawl through the world wide web proves you can get prestige German cars for peanuts.
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Save more than £9k on the Merc CLK
Outgoing Mercedes CLK for £9k less
The new will replace the CLK in June. But if you don’t mind having the out-of-date model, more serious bargains are beginning to emerge.
Broadspeed, for example, is offering unregistered CLK Coupés from stock for just £20,499. To put that into perspective, the cheapest you’ll get an for is £33,285 to begin with (less expensive models will follow later). What’s more, the current entry-level list price for a CLK is £29,887.
This means Broadspeed can save you at least £9,388 on a CLK.
Buy used for massive savings
Audi A6 diesel for less than an A4 petrol
Motorpoint has a selection of 08-plate A6 saloons available at well under the price of a new Audi A4.
They are all 2.0-litre TDI turbodiesels with Multitronic automatic gearbox and top S line specification. Mileage is a little as 12,345 miles, and including metallic paint they are all priced at £18,999.
The cheapest A4 you can currently buy is a 1.8 turbo that starts at £19,720 – so you can upgrade an entire car size, not to mention two trim levels by buying used.
Porsche Boxster Sport Edition for £23k
A brand-new A6 – which has admittedly benefited from a recent facelift – with the same spec costs from £28,455 (list price). So these represent a £9,456 saving.
Future collectible: Porsche Boxster Sport Edition at £23k
Finally, Autoquake has a desirable special edition Porsche Boxster at a good-looking price.
The Sport Edition carried a £3k premium over regular Boxsters when new, costing £36,450 and including such extras as an aerodynamic bodykit, Porsche Active Suspension Management (an adaptive suspension system giving improved grip), cosmetic tweaks including body-coloured rollover hoops, and a smidge of extra power.
This means the 2.7-litre version Autoquake has for sale produces 245bhp instead of the regular 240. At £23,003 for a 57-plate with a reasonable 19,604 miles it’s very well priced against similar models on the market – not to mention some £10,701 less than the current entry-level Boxster list price of £33,704.
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