Dealer Stock of Unregistered Cars
Discussion
Is there a system available to joe public where you can look at what unregistered stock is sat in dealerships. I know there is a system the dealers use as my OPC showed me what Caymans were available when I was buying a new one a couple of years back. None of them had the spec I wanted so I placed a factory order. Its purely out of interest.
Historically there’s been no need as most buyers order direct from the factory or opt for an unsold pipeline car already ordered by the dealer. Individual dealer groups haven’t particularly wanted to give away scarce vehicles/ profit to competitors.
Also pretty much each Specialist car sold is unique given the number of options now so it would take a lot of time to try and find the “right” car somewhere in the country.
Most new cars sold by OPCs will therefore in effect not have been stocked by them - unlike a volume manufacturer dealership who would typically have 1 or 2 months physical stock - although again they would look to minimise this as even if not owned (they usually have 60 to 90 days to sell a vehicle before they have to register and buy it) these vehicles will be financed on a stocking plan which all adds to cost.
Much more common to swap vehicles at a volume dealer but there usually less options - used to be colour, trim level and one or two key items, even here the choice is becoming huge which is why more and more brands want to build your specific car to order.
Of course this could change especially if Porsche keeps upping its volumes - seems to me there are a lot of low mileage SUVs around at dealerships these days.
Also pretty much each Specialist car sold is unique given the number of options now so it would take a lot of time to try and find the “right” car somewhere in the country.
Most new cars sold by OPCs will therefore in effect not have been stocked by them - unlike a volume manufacturer dealership who would typically have 1 or 2 months physical stock - although again they would look to minimise this as even if not owned (they usually have 60 to 90 days to sell a vehicle before they have to register and buy it) these vehicles will be financed on a stocking plan which all adds to cost.
Much more common to swap vehicles at a volume dealer but there usually less options - used to be colour, trim level and one or two key items, even here the choice is becoming huge which is why more and more brands want to build your specific car to order.
Of course this could change especially if Porsche keeps upping its volumes - seems to me there are a lot of low mileage SUVs around at dealerships these days.
If you look on some of the dealer groups own websites it does show cars that aren’t on the main AUC site. On the JCT 600 site you can select “Nearly New” for example nether than Taycan or Panamera appear on the main AUC websites for the respective OPC’s.
These aren’t unregistered but there seemingly either demo cars or cars OPC’s have registered and are effectively new stock.
These aren’t unregistered but there seemingly either demo cars or cars OPC’s have registered and are effectively new stock.
A lot of unsold/dealer ordered cars get pre registered so sold as pre reg. delivery miles or used as demos not sure why tax? This has been going on for many years since demand is lower than supply at retailers also happens a lot around end of year due to order numbers and maintaining factory order quotas ? So I believe very few cars actually exist as unregistered. Well that's how I have bought 2 new Porsches at a discount.The only way to find car looking for is ring around the individual groups to see what they have.
GT4P said:
A lot of unsold/dealer ordered cars get pre registered so sold as pre reg. delivery miles or used as demos not sure why tax? This has been going on for many years since demand is lower than supply at retailers also happens a lot around end of year due to order numbers and maintaining factory order quotas ? So I believe very few cars actually exist as unregistered. Well that's how I have bought 2 new Porsches at a discount.The only way to find car looking for is ring around the individual groups to see what they have.
OPC’s get an allowance from Porsche GB for running demo’s....so if a car is registered as a demo it costs them less. They have to be run for three months though I think. Also with something like a Cayenne they’ll register them to hit sales targets so can afford to discount them because of the bonus payment that car helped generate. Things are definitely changing I got offered a finance contribution/discount on a Panamera of £20k earlier in the year. The car was 4 months old and had been sat in Porsche GB’s car park...it was them that was offering the discount not the OPC.You also really need to speak to every OPC as even within the same group there’s bartering to get access to another OPC’s new car stock. I think that’s one of the reasons these cars don’t appear on the AUC site as once they are on there any OPC in the same dealer group can sell the car.
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