Strangely low car price?

[OzzyR1]

Looking for a new family run-around / do it all car.

Has to be an estate to take 4 passengers + dogs, petrol to avoid ulez & preferably have a bit of oomph if needed so I don't die of boredom.
Pref under 5 years old and around £20K

Search led me to a Seat Leon Cupra 300 ST 4-drive.

AT results here:

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-search?body-type=...

Any idea why the Car Giant one is priced at £16K when the next up and most equivalents are £3K more (ignoring the Cat-S)?

Bottom of the expanded AT description says "Cargiant.co.uk to search all of our cars, 1 Keeper, Service History, MOT to 25-Jun-2024. Black, £16,198"

[edc]

Having recently looked for similar 'bargain' priced cars and seen and enquired at a few at car supermarket types I eventually bought sight unseen and had delivered from a main dealer. The most likely reason as was the case in my purchase is that the car has some or none documented service history.

Mine was a 50k mile car and I reckoned on it having some history albeit no docs. It was serviced at sale and then I had it serviced a year later where the dealer said it was a well looked after example I took the gamble and paid a lower price accordingly and will sell for a lower price eventually but after a few years the lack of docs at the beginning won't matter so much.

[fflump]

Could be ex-rental or be cosmetically tatty -been damaged/ repaired on a budget. Lots of possible reasons

[Drezza]

Someone went to see that exact car on the Second Hand Car Price thread and said it was cosmetically scruffy.

[macron]

read this page

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[Belle427]

Funny enough a work colleague showed me a car earlier he liked the look of that was a good £5000 cheaper than others.
That was car giant too.
Scruffy hammered cars is my guess?

[SlowV6]

The ad was removed yesterday (someone on the other thread noted the car was reserved) but seems to have been resurrected. Guess the buyer pulled out?

It's a good £2.5k+ cheaper than any similar age/spec. There has to be a reason.

[Truckosaurus]

Seems odd that there's no pictures on the interior, so that is probably where the shabbiness comes in. Especially if it has had a hard life with kids, or dogs, or been used as a work van etc.

Obviously not worth CarGiant tarting it up and bumping up the price (assume that's not their business model).

Seems ideal for the High Peak 'I've massively overspent' Autos youtube channel.

[Yomamaisasnowblower]

Some on there think they're ok but I'd avoid them personally - try actually visiting the site and you'll know what I mean.

[Alanf56]

Keep an eye on car giant. A lot of their vehicles have multiple owners and the cars aren’t well looked after.

[daqinggregg]

47 pictures and not a single interior image.

[Gas1883]

3 yrs ago we brought a focus titanium 65 plate for £6,000 , every other one was priced round the 10k mark , the salesman said it was a case of sell it or auction it as it had been there a while , we still got a excellent p/x
I was dubious but it ran well for 3 yrs , p/x dealer commented on how tidy it was
Do not dealers want cars gone off for court in so many months ? ,