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CONVERTIBLE models are currently the hottest bargains around for hardy buyers reports one car dealer. Carsite.co.uk says January is actually the ideal month to be selling open-top cars! This is because prices are up to 17 percent lower than they were in September – meaning car dealers can both source bargains and sell them on [...]

VALUES of used convertibles have plummeted by an average of 10 percent in the past 2 months. Autoquake.com says the usual winter decline is bigger than expected this year. The firm’s founder Fredrik Skantze is thus priming car buyers to take advantage of bargains, by promoting the value-saving idea of buying a convertible in winter. [...]

HPI has confirmed an unlikely boast of Brits – we buy more convertibles per head than any European neighbour. But it’s not our fabled crazy British ways, adds HPI. The reasons are far more mundane: a change, 10 years ago, in company car policy. This scrapped previous rules, banning anything other than a four-door hard-top [...]

FIAT has taken the bold step of launching the 500 C open-top model in the UK BEFORE any other country! UK Fiat car dealers will even get the funky new motor before Fiat’s home dealers in Italy – something that’s virtually unpredecented! It is both reward for Fiat dealers’ improving performance, and also the UK [...]