Car supermarket? North West

Car supermarket? North West

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Blakeatron

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2,516 posts

174 months

Sunday 26th January 2020
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Unexpectedly sold our car and haven’t sorted a replacement.

Disagreeing with my wife over what we want next, the ideal would be to go to one location and drive/look at various models until she is happy.

It will be a small hot hatch - abarth 595, mini cooper or similar.

Have money in the bank and need a car quickly!

Anyone got any locations or ideas nearest to windermere, there is a mini dealer near us with a few in - nearest abarth centre is preston maybe?

quinny100

929 posts

187 months

Sunday 26th January 2020
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I'm not far from Windermere and I usually go down to Fords of Winsford if I want to look at a number of cars. It's about 90 mins from Jct 36 of the M6.

It's a great place to browse because you can collect the keys for multiple cars from the key desk and have a good poke around them at your leisure. You have to be accompanied for a test drive but they always have people available for this quickly.

You don't need to speak to salesperson until you've decided what you want, so there's no hard sell.

They have a few Abarth's and loads of Mini's in.

They won't move on the price, but they will drop the finance APR's from what's published on the website if your credit rating is decent. The cars are usually well prepared as they have all their own facilities for this.




Edited by quinny100 on Sunday 26th January 19:01

Blakeatron

Original Poster:

2,516 posts

174 months

Sunday 26th January 2020
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Thanks - being very lazy a bit further than i wanted to travel!

Wife has a check up in preston hospital on Wednesday and found a couple of dealers in preston with abarths in so will go check them out, there are a couple of coopers over in grange.


sparkythecat

7,905 posts

256 months

Sunday 26th January 2020
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MP Cars at Barton, on the A6 just north of Preston have 350 cars in including an Arbarth.
I went there with my brother in law to buy a Nissan Juke last summer. Their stock was well presented, pricing keen and they seemed fair people to do business with.

https://www.mpmotorcompany.co.uk/

dhutch

14,391 posts

198 months

Sunday 26th January 2020
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More local to you are, but my parents have also used FOW a few times and had great success with them.


sparkythecat

7,905 posts

256 months

Sunday 26th January 2020
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Coastal Racing at Hest Bank, just north of Lancaster are MINI specialists.
They presently have 21 to choose from

https://www.coastalcarcentre.co.uk/used/cars/mini