A few years ago now, my 1.6 automatic Citroen DS3 went back to the dealer’s when I picked up a new car on hand-over day.
I loved that DS3 and took care of it as if it was my own. I would happily have bought it at the time – but understood that buying the car when your lease was up just wasn’t cost effective.
Anyway, fast forward a couple of months later and I saw my old DS3 up for sale on the internet one day at an independent car dealer’s forecourt about 40 miles away from where I live at a price of just £4,500 – a price I would have been very happy to have paid Motability at the time. Makes you wonder, at that price, how much the dealer paid for the car at auction? The car had one owner from new of course – me – low mileage, and was very well looked after.
You live and learn.