Graham Hill Announces That UK Car Prices Are Still A Rip Off!

Thursday, 8. July 2010

What a bloody surprise! After hiking up their prices last year, no less than 4 times, which coincidentally coincided with the £1,000 manufacturer’s scrappage scheme contribution, Ford are now dropping their list prices by between 6% and 15% across their smaller cars from August, after all the pipeline scrappage orders have totally washed out of the system. No wonder the biggest benefactors were the Koreans and good luck to them. One of these days we will get ourselves properly organised with a Government level consumer watchdog with teeth and stop us being regarded as rip off Britain by every Johnny Foreigner selling us goods! When I recently posed the question during the University of Buckingham Forum as to why we can pay the same in £ sterling for cars in the UK as the American’s pay in dollars no one had an answer. I’ll give you one – because we, as a country, are dopey enough to accept it! And don’t even think of getting me started on the Apple iPad. Grrr. Any views? Let me know! By Graham Hill