ood deals on old Transits
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)RD DEALERS are ering attractively priced old del Transits.
vlany still have old Transits stock — mainly long .celbase models — which being sold at up to 20 per it off the list price.
'ord is currently offering dealers a run-out allowance up to three per cent off the cc they have to pay for old Kids, and this, coupled :h the increase in prices on latest models (CM, FebLry 15), means operators save up to 1:1,000.
Xthile most of the Ford ck specialist dealers CM' ,ke to this week were be very coy about prices 7C were worried that it old be left with old unsold ;ales manager Jim Davis of wies in Sunderland admits having "quite a few" old
Transits — certainly more than 12, including long and short wheelbase models — and is "willing to give a good dealto his customers.
Eric Jones, sales manager of UBM Ford it) Avonmouth, reckons that nearly all Ford dealers have around a dozen old models still in stock, with many having ordered extra 190 long wheelbase variants to see them through the period before the arrival of the new Transit 190.
UBM's Patrick Saunders says it is offering around 20 per cent off long wheelbase Transits, and up to IS per cent on short wheelbase vans.
He confirmed that there is 'still a percentage of the market out to get as much tbr their money as possible'', "We're certainly not panicking that they're not going to sell," he added. Dees of Croydon still has old Transit chassis cabs in stock ni d according to its salesmen "is ready to talk turkey with any customer"