Thread: Matt Cooper's article on car dealers

It reads like a regular Motors forum reader Own up! Who's Matt Cooper?

He has a point, but that same point can be applied to any form of goods. Do you really need to buy a new house? Why not just live with your parents and save yourself 200k.? Do you really need to buy a new TV? Why not just look through your neighbours window? Etc etc. People buy cars because they want to - most of us in here are petrol heads, and we like our cars. I see my car as an extension of me, not just a piece of metal on wheels in my...

he's dead right, why buy new when you can buy nearly new at a much better price

I've never gotten the desire to buy a new car (i.e. Yaris, Micra) when the same budget can buy a much nicer high-end marque. I set a budget of E5k on my last car purchase, and got a nicely-specc'd E46 318i for my money. A much better buy as far as I'm concerned. And I'm not even representative of people who have E10-15k to spend. As for the scrappage scheme, I fail to see the major benefit. Even with E2k off, why would I...

Bill Cullen talking to Matt Cooper on The Last Word during the week http://www.radioireland.ie/lastword/11112009-18.wmv

Bangernomics all the way here My car is five years old and counting-it's the newest I feel I need to go. Let folk keep buying the new 'uns if they wish, I'll have 'em in a few years when they depreciate edit: I'm aware five years may seem unfeasibly new for some

Cooper doesn't drive I believe.

I didn't catch his interview with Bill Cullen the other night but predictably Cooper is unimpressed with the plight of the car dealer. It's very obvious he doesn't suffer from petrol-headitis and that he very much sees cars as 'white-goods' but I agree with nearly everything he says... http://www.examiner.ie/opinion/colum...bt-105418.html