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Offline fredgroves

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Re: Walked into VW dealer, and was surrounded by Vauxhalls
« Reply #60 on: 24 February 2025, 22:38 »
People are slower to change cars because normal people have had their wages flatline, inflation has increased costs and finance is no longer cheap.

That's the truth, the last dozen years are over... Crunch after crunch myself and many others don't have the cash to burn on cars anymore.
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Re: Walked into VW dealer, and was surrounded by Vauxhalls
« Reply #61 on: 24 February 2025, 23:20 »
Yes, all true, Fred- but the uncertainty about the car industry is also a big factor.



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Re: Walked into VW dealer, and was surrounded by Vauxhalls
« Reply #62 on: 25 February 2025, 11:05 »
Yes, all true, Fred- but the uncertainty about the car industry is also a big factor.

For a lot of people in the UK its the lack of being able to home charge.... I am lucky, I have a driveway. Many of my colleagues do not.
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Re: Walked into VW dealer, and was surrounded by Vauxhalls
« Reply #63 on: 25 February 2025, 12:54 »
Yes, and the number of public charging points has hardly increased in the last 12 months!

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