The name Volkswagen is infamous in the car industry. The Used Volkswagen Beetle has excelled to become a sort of icon, whilst their more modern range of models are becoming renowned for their comfort, style, engineering and reliability. Of course, Volkswagen know this, so tend to command higher price tags for their cars. Is this fair? Well, maybe it is. After all, as with anything in life, quality does come at a premium.
In some cases though, the extra few thousand pounds for the VW Golf, as opposed to an equivalent Fiesta or Hyundai i30, might seem a stretch too far. Times have been pretty hard lately, and with the government’s scrappage scheme long since gone, motorists are back to buying cars the good old fashioned way – with a good dose of haggling. Cash is tight and finance is a tricky subject, so every motorist is keen to make absolutely every penny count. If you find yourself slotting into this category, but have your heart set on that Volkswagen Golf, why not look into what you can buy with your money on the used Volkswagen car market?
Buying a used car has always been a good way for motorists to get the car they want, whilst saving a hefty sum of money on the side. Of course, the car is pre-owned, has already been driving so many thousand miles and might not be precisely the specification of car you were looking for, but if you can save yourself thousands of pounds off of the list price, surely the sacrifice will be worth it? For example, a brand new Volkswagen Gold 2.0 TSI GTI, with all of the optional extras, gadgets and trinkets you could ever hope for, could end up costing you upwards of £35,000. That’s a serious amount of money for a small to mid-size car, especially when considering its rivals. If you wandered over to the other side of the forecourt, where the cars were just as shiny but not as ‘brand new’, you might find yourself a similar model, one year old with 5,000 miles on the clock, with a price tag of around £28,000. Now, you don’t need have studied a degree to figure out that that is a substantial saving on the showroom prices. Maybe it doesn’t have the fancy Xenon headlights installed, but for the sake of a £7,000 saving, I’m sure most motorists would happily stick with the old-school headlights.
Of course, if you do opt for buying a used car, you don’t have to buy your used Volkswagen from an official Volkswagen dealership. Quite the contrary, there are literally thousands of used Volkswagens across thousands of various different used car forecourts all over the country. But always bear in mind, if the car isn’t being sold by an ‘approved’ used Volkswagen dealer, then the car has not been check out to Volkswagen’s ‘approved’ standards.
