Welcome to Cheap New Peugeots the online New Car discount department for the Southgate Group. With Branches in Andover, Blandford, Romsey, Southampton, and Winchester The Southgate Group is one of the largest Peugeot Dealer Groups in the South.

Whether you are a private or business customer, Cheap New Peugeots website is where you will find the most competitively priced new Peugeots in the UK.

As a Peugeot franchised dealer Group we are able to offer full Main Dealer Services including New & Used Peugeots, Finance, Warranties, Service and Parts and we welcome your Part Exchange.

Our Prices

Our online discounted price includes delivery & number plates but excludes vehicle road fund licence. (12 Months from £35.00 - £400.00, depending on fuel/ emissions), and 1st registration Fee of £55.00.

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BUYING ADVICE

No! No! No!

Not if the conditions of sale to the customer vary. Who exactly are you buying it from - who do you hand your money to, and how long before you get the logbook in your name?

An investigation by journalists at ‘What Car?’ magazine in April 2007 revealed that 8 out of 10 online car brokers would not be able to provide the logbook (V5) for between 3-6 months.

Not true. You can only buy a brand new 1st owner car or van from a manufacturer’s franchised dealership. If you are handing your hard-earned money to a car/van supermarket, broker, or any other type of re-seller then they cannot sell you a new unregistered vehicle - as they are not a franchised dealer for the brand, so the vehicle is likely to be imported or pre-registered.

Not if the car or van logbook (V5) is retained for any time! How would you feel if you bought an insurance policy, but the seller told you he couldn’t let you have the paperwork or policy with your name on it for a few months, would you still buy it?

By law a dealer MUST send their slip from the V5 to the DVLA as soon as a vehicle changes ownership, or they face a heavy fine.

By law you MUST have a V5 to take your vehicle abroad. So if you haven’t got one, your insurance will be invalid!

WHAT ARE THE RISKS?

1) Insurance - when applying for your cover you will be asked to state if you are the registered owner and keeper of the vehicle. If you tick ‘yes’, your insurance policy may be deemed invalid - as of course your name will not be identifiable on the V5 and nor will you be able to produce the V5 in the event of an accident or claim. You need to ask your insurer if they will still cover you if you are not shown on the V5.

1) Insurance - when applying for your cover you will be asked to state if you are the registered owner and keeper of the vehicle. If you tick ‘yes’, your insurance policy may be deemed invalid - as of course your name will not be identifiable on the V5 and nor will you be able to produce the V5 in the event of an accident or claim. You need to ask your insurer if they will still cover you if you are not shown on the V5.

A RECENT CASE - A buyer of a pre registered car was unfortunate to have an accident within the first week after he brought it. The car had to be written off. His insurance company paid out £7000 less than he paid for the vehicle. The reason given by his insurance company was that it wasn’t a new car, but used, and so they valued it accordingly!

2) If you are handing your deposit/final balance to anyone other than a main franchised dealer, then you are not buying it from a main dealer - you are buying it from a third party ‘re-seller’ and your contract to purchase is with them, not a main car or van dealership. The dealership views the third party as their customer, not you.

None of these contribute to a safe situation for you to be in if something goes wrong, as neither the manufacturer nor dealer will help you - you have handed money and your order to a re-seller who is not franchise-approved by the manufacturer to sell the product.

3) Legal issues: If you find yourself in a situation where you are asked to produce your vehicle documentation, you will not be able to - this can occur in the UK or abroad. It is actually illegal to take your vehicle abroad without a V5, in your name, so if you haven’t got one, your insurance will be invalid.

4) Parking: If you reside in an area where your local authority has to issue parking permits, the tight controls around these often require you to produce the V5 bearing your name and address to prove you are eligible to apply for a permit for that road.

How Do I Know If It’s Really A ‘New’ Car or Van?

You need to speak to the supplier and ask some questions to clarify their wording and sale conditions:

The three things you need to ask are:

1) Is this a UK specification car, or van, supplied by a normal UK franchised main dealer with full 3 year UK warranty from the day the car, or van is put into my name?

2) Will I be the first and only registered owner on the logbook (V5 document)?

3) Do I get the logbook put in my name straight away?

If you talk to us, the answers will be YES, YES, YES!

If an online seller doesn’t clearly state on their website that you’ll be first & only registered owner, don’t assume you will be, even if you spot phrases such as ‘brand new’, ‘UK registered’, ‘new cars’, ‘new vans’. Many dubious suppliers will parade pre-registered deals under a very grey blanket and still call them ‘new’ as they carry only delivery mileage, but they won’t be clear about the conditions of sale.

Remember, a car’s, or van’s, warranty starts ticking from the day it was first registered, so if you buy the car or van a few months after it was originally registered, despite it only having delivery mileage, you’ll have lost that length of time on its warranty - so factor that into your calculations of whether it is still a ‘bargain’.

WHY DOES PRE-REGISTRATION HAPPEN?

1) The legitimate way - the manufacturer needs to move unsold stock onto the market.

2) The ‘other’ ways - some dealers, or brokers will decide to risk pre-registering vehicles themselves (without the manufacturer’s consent or authority) using their own money and taking a risk that they can sell sufficient numbers to hit their sales target and get their money back by earning volume sales bonuses from the manufacturer.

If a dealer or broker does this, then under the terms of his franchise contract with the manufacturer (which enables him to represent the brand in his area) he should run a pre-registered car or van as a demonstrator for 3-6 months (term depends on brand and his contract) before re-selling it. This clause is there specifically to stop franchised dealers from selling new stock too cheap, too soon, and ultimately ‘de-valuing’ the brand.

Alternatively, the dealer or broker may be making illicit use of a company’s fleet terms (extra discount for large fleets, provided by the manufacturer via a unique security code to use when the dealer is registering the vehicle to obtain the extra discount) - if you are told the vehicle will be registered to a company before your own name, that is why.

If you are told that as part of your new-car/van deal you won’t be able to get the logbook for some weeks or months, you need to hear HUGE alarm bells ringing!

A number of phrases may be used; ‘we need to hold on to it for auditing purposes’, ‘we have to hold it at the dealership for manufacturer price inspections’, or even ‘it will take the DVLA 3-6 months to process it’. Even at busy times the DVLA take a maximum of 2 weeks to process new V5s! The simple fact is that the dealer has decided to pre-register without the manufacturers knowledge and has sold it without running it for the 3-6 months as a demonstrator, as he is supposed to do under his franchise contract.

The ONLY way he can stop you alerting the manufacturer to its early sale is to withhold the logbook so you cannot apply to have your name added as the current owner.

WHAT CAN YOU DO?

Don’t let a ‘too good to be true’ price sway your common sense and decision, a car/van is that price as there are risks and ownership issues. Many of these operators are ‘bedroom brokers’, operating on laptops and often without bricks and mortar businesses premises. You wouldn’t buy any other goods from an outfit like that, so don’t do it with something expensive like a new car or van either.

It remains illegal to withhold a V5 document from a vehicle buyer. If you are told that you will not get the logbook for some months, you must insist that the deal has to include immediate logbook transferral to your name. if they cannot do it, simply walk away and buy from a main franchised dealer who DOES enable you to have the benefit of high-volume and enjoy a normal ‘first registered owner’ sale, like Cheap New Peugeots – The Southgate Group!