I'm sure you are familiar with the "strictly no discounts" line being used by Toyota Dealers around the country, so I was a little surprised to find this link (see below) to an internet company selling all variants of the CHR at substantial discounts. I have spoken to this company and they are quoting delivery dates exactly the same as those being given by Toyota Dealers. The cars are ordered directly from Toyota, taken to your local dealer, prepped, and then delivered to you. This company has negotiated a bulk discount with Toyota, and this saving is being passed on to customers.
I felt I needed to query this with Toyota GB, because it really didn't seem right that an external supplier could offer these discounts, when their own dealer network was claiming that Toyota had forbidden them to discount the cars at all.
The Toyota Customer Services Manager I spoke to said she was unaware of any such restriction placed on dealers by the company, and that Toyota sold cars to their dealer network at a fixed price, and it was up to the dealer whether they offered discounts to their customers on the cars.
I'm really not sure what's going on here, but maybe the big Toyota franchises got together and decided the car can sell itself without the need for discounts. Big profits for them, bad deals for us, and they can blame the manufacturer for it if a customer isn't happy. I'm not saying that's the case, but I think the whole thing is very fishy indeed.
Anyway here's the link for the big savings, and if you have already paid for, or placed a deposit on a car, I would ask your dealer what the heck is going on.
https://www.uk-car-discount.co.uk/new-cars/toyota/c-hr/dynamic
I felt I needed to query this with Toyota GB, because it really didn't seem right that an external supplier could offer these discounts, when their own dealer network was claiming that Toyota had forbidden them to discount the cars at all.
The Toyota Customer Services Manager I spoke to said she was unaware of any such restriction placed on dealers by the company, and that Toyota sold cars to their dealer network at a fixed price, and it was up to the dealer whether they offered discounts to their customers on the cars.
I'm really not sure what's going on here, but maybe the big Toyota franchises got together and decided the car can sell itself without the need for discounts. Big profits for them, bad deals for us, and they can blame the manufacturer for it if a customer isn't happy. I'm not saying that's the case, but I think the whole thing is very fishy indeed.
Anyway here's the link for the big savings, and if you have already paid for, or placed a deposit on a car, I would ask your dealer what the heck is going on.
https://www.uk-car-discount.co.uk/new-cars/toyota/c-hr/dynamic