New Cars - What Extras Will I Get

Those who are thinking of buying a brand new car for the first time might be wondering what if any extras they should expect. How to answer this question will be determined by how you and the dealer have been dealing with each other and what your relationship is like. There are a number of dealers who will throw in a lot of extras in the hopes of getting you to buy the car especially if they think this will seal the deal. If they feel fairly confident that you are going to buy the car anyway they can be quite stingy. Most of these dealers get these extras for free anyway but just won’t part with them unless they feel it is in their interests which is a shame for the buyer. This is why two people can go to a dealer to buy a car and one will leave with a couple of free items and the other with a boot full of stuff.

 

You might be able to get the dealer to throw in some of the following items so it could be worth bargaining for these.

- Floor mats for the car.

- Apparel.

- Golfing umbrellas.

- Covers for the steering wheel.

- Travel cushions.

- More sun visors.

- Free oil changes - try to get five.

- Car polishing and free cleanign for a year.

- An extended warranty.

- Passenger entertainment such as DVD players.

- Cleaning equipment for your car.

 

Above are just some of the things that you can try to pressure the car dealer into providing. It is very unlikely that you will get them all but you should work on getting a few of these. However the thing to do first is to get the price of the car knocked down if you can. But if you can get the dealer to give you some of these extras, it will make the deal even sweeter; remember that he gets them for free anyway.

 

City cars technology today has come on in leaps and bounds. No more are they just figments of an over active imagination. Now all sorts of car types are benefiting and you can even find electric 4wd and take the opportunity to go for a colt test drive.

Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X - The Newest Member To The Evo Family

If you have any kind of interest in cars and specifically, driving them at rather fast speeds, then you are probably already aware of the Mitsubishi Evo Range. If you are not interested in fast cars that feel as dangerous as a wounded animal, then this probably isn’t the article for you. If, on the other hand, you’re one of those drivers who (rather foolishly) like to take your life in your hands every time you sit behind the wheel, then read on.

The engineers at Mitsubishi have released the latest member of their Evo Series, the Evo X, to something of a critical question mark. So far, opinion has been neatly split down the middle, with some reviewers hailing it as the ultimate in car-driving bragging rights, with other lamenting its rather limited BHP in comparison to the last generation ‘FQ’ series.

I sit neatly on the fence in this argument, as I know that on the surface, the Mitsubishi Evo X probably isn’t as impressive as its forebear. On the other hand I also know that anyone who buys this car, all £30,000 of it, is unlikely to leave it in even a comparable condition as to how it comes from the factory. No, thats not the correct procedure if you own this particular car.

The Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X is the ultimate customisable car. Owners are known to install new bucket seats, larger exhausts, overhaul the engine to get better power and pretty much alter every screw and replace every component. Mitsubishi know this only too well, which probably goes some way to explaining why they haven’t overdone it on the quality of components. Why go to any discernible effort when they’re only going to be swapped to the owner’s custom specification?

With suitable tweaking and hours spent grunting over hot machinery, you can bet that the Evo X will be witnessed on the roads as a 400BHP animal rather than the slightly tame 291BHP we see here. Don’t get me wrong, 291BHP is still enough to rip the skin from your bones, but it won’t dissolve you or send you forward through a time dilation in the space/time continuum like the previous model could.

My Evo tip: Buy it / customise it.

Mitsubishi is still the contender

I once worked with a gentleman who said his wife worked at Colt Cars in England. I remember at the time saying to him “Who the hell are they!I guess this was a little rude but I though I had heard of most car manufactures and I didn’t know these guys. Fortunately for me he ignored how rude I was and went on to explain that the aforementioned Colt Cars were in fact a joint venture with Mitsubishi, who I did know and was set up largely to import cars into the UK.

 

I had forgotten that Britain used to have strict import quotas on foreign vehicles in a vain attempt to protect British manufacturers from the threat to their market from foreign imports. It wasn’t until the British public realised that British cars were in fact useless that they started buying foreign cars by the thousand which spelled the end of the road for the majority of UK manufacturers, sad but true.

 

There was a small backlash from people of a certain generation against buying foreign cars particularly Japanese ones but when their Morris Maxi’s and Marinas finally rusted into oblivion they begrudgingly grasped the nettle and now wouldn’t be seen driving anything other than a Micra or Yaris or indeed a Mitsubishi Colt.

 

Mitsubishi have had mixed fortunes over the years with some successful models and of course you can’t really mention Mitsubishi without talking about their successes with the Ralliart division and the whole Evolution phenomenon. Apart from this Mitsubishi history is fairly complex and they have in the past formed alliances with companies which you would not have expected such as Volvo and Chrysler.

 

Mitsubishi Corporation is a huge concern in Japan of which Mitsubishi Motors are a subsidiary of and with a history that dates back as far as 1917. The Mitsubishi logo (the three diamonds) is over one hundread years older than Mitsubishi motors. It was chosen by Yataro Iwasaki who was the founder of Mitsubishi. Apparently it represented the emblem of the Tosa Clan who first employed him and because his own family crest was three diamonds stacked one on top of the other. The company name Mitsubishi is in fact two words combined the first one Mitsu meaning three and Hishi which refers to the diamonds in the log.   

 

Mitsubishi are currently the seventh largest car manufacturer in Japan and seventeenth in the world which puts them as fairly large but not huge by any standards. The main problem for Mitsubishi was that there was a lack of models for the public to choose from, they have however in the last few years worked hard to improve their range of models.

 

After working with Chrysler since the 1970’s Mitsubishi were then involved with Daimler Chrysler until around 2005. I guess this was a little rude but I though I had heard of most car manufactures and I didn’t know these guys at all. The latest Mitsubishi Lancer received a good reception and Mitsubishi has also now joined up with Peugeot and Citroen to produce the 4007 and C-Crosser these will be sports utility vehicles based on the Outlander. The Outlander itself boasts favourable fuel economy combined with the lowest C02 emissions in its class.

 

The Shogun or Pajero whose name is rumoured to be rude in Spanish is another vehicle which has ensured Mitsubishi’s success over the years. The latest version is far more refined and is now pitched at the luxury SUV market.

 

A lesser known fact about Mitsubishi is that Jackie Chan has had a long association with the company so with him on their side I guess they will always be a contender!