Swiss used cars

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dicktracy

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241 posts

194 months

Saturday 20th September 2008
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Hi all,
Me again....

Following on from my previous post about moving to Switzerland, I finally had some time today to go out and look at a couple of used car dealers.. Our plan so far was to pick up an old S3, Golf R32 or similar... But shock and horror.... All the cars I saw fell into either of two categories (1) bad condition, with purely scratched alloys and body work, worn seats and generally looking tired or (2) having enough after market modification to stock a Halford's store. To be fair there were probably more in the second category than the first. Is that a general trend in Switzerland, or is it more the case when these types of cars get cheaper and fall in to the hands of "young men who like that sort of stuff..."?

I did see a couple of nice Focus ST's, a surprising nice scooby and a couple of newer Golf GTI and R32s. So I might revise the plan a little and go for something newer or which is less popular with the modification crew....

Jako

RainerM

827 posts

232 months

Saturday 20th September 2008
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Hallo

Have a look here, official dealer and importer with guarantee.

http://www.amag.ch/amag/die_occ.jsp#

Normally they have never cars like you mentioned. I do not know about your knowledge in German.

There is a search function for type, price etc. incl. Postcode.

Rainer-CH

dicktracy

Original Poster:

241 posts

194 months

Saturday 20th September 2008
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Cheers, much appreciated.

Can read some German, so I am sure it will be ok.

J

Not Ideal

2,899 posts

189 months

Wednesday 24th September 2008
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The Swiss LOVE tuning up their hot hatches

dicktracy

Original Poster:

241 posts

194 months

Thursday 25th September 2008
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So true. I have started noticing that too....

smilerbaker

4,071 posts

216 months

Monday 29th September 2008
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Not Ideal said:
The Swiss LOVE tuning up their hot hatches
yep, fortunatly they have the money to do it properly as well, not seem many halfrauds specials on the roads here.

No idea how they get them through the TUV test afterwards tho.