For my pennies worth I would say that the car industry along with everything else is going to go into recession from early next year making manufactures fall over themselves to sell cars. The vast majority of cars being delivered today, MB and private lease are only being delivered because the orders were placed up to and over a year ago, myself included, and these cars are being delivered at a fixed price so have become bonus for those buyers and a loss for the manufactures, but alas doesn’t mean anything to we MB customers. This is why I see prices starting to drop sometime next year.
China is the first to get the hit and Tesla have already started to cut retail prices there, who would believe that, and this pattern will hit the rest of the World as sure as day follows night for the rest of the car industry here, there and everywhere.
So what I think will happen, just like what happened after the 2008 crash, that many cars will come to MB with what may seem reasonable AP’s by today’s standard but the question is with ordinary folk having their income cut and the real possibility of benefits, including disabled ones being frozen will we be able to afford the AP’s even if they are reduced. Not forgetting the cost of electric or petrol to make the things go.
I can hear the echo Harold Macmillan from his grave saying “I told you you never had it so good back in the 50’s and 60’s”. ?
So to sum my bit of depressive thinking???, like others have said to sit on the fence and wait for something suitable to come on board and that also gives you a bit of time to hopefully save a bit more money to run the car and pay the AP.