Any advice on negotiating with a dealer, for a "nearly new"

It's absolutely standard practice on some marques - did it recently on a new VW with £2750 deposit contribution. You have 14 days from signing the docs (often that's a few days before getting the car) to "withdraw".

If you leave it longer than 14 days then you "settle" the finance. Main advantage of withdrawing is you don't pay things like doc and ownership fees, but many deals have these at pretty nominal amounts now. Max early settlement interest penalty is a couple of months, so a relatively small amount.

On VW particularly, I've no idea what they're up to - with the deposit contribution and other discounts you had to go back at least 12 months to get cheaper used cars. This was just before the emissions news, so it's not like they were reacting to that.

On the Merc I bought a few years it listed at £36K new - I bought at 5mth/5K miles and paid £23,500. And it was a new model at the time, on a long lead-time. Those levels of discount just don't seem to be available now.

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No Black-Pack unfortunately, but I'm going to try to get those bits of the trim which would normally be part of the back-pack wrapped (e.g. the veins on the front grill and the power vents)... Shouldn't cost me too much. I want to get a black set of alloys. The guy in the showroom said that it's also bossing to get those ones already on the car professionally painted to be black. Anyone know if that's an easy/simple process?

It wasn't a dealer contribution it was a manufacturer backed contribution. It's something vw themselves offer if you go through vw finance.

If jaguar don't have a similar scheme then you won't suddenly get a contribution