[GaryCrow]

While I despise scummy car dealers, I think she's wrong on multiple points. I don't know how she figures you have to buy a car you don't want, it's not like you can be forced to buy anything. If a particular dealer doesn't have what you want then you go to another one who does, or have the dealer find or order one you do want. I've never bought something I didn't want.

She also doesn't mention that vehicles in the U.K. cost about twice as much as a comparable vehicle in the U.S. Sure, you can get a tiny econonobox for fairly cheap, but it's something most Americans wouldn't be willing to drive. To buy and operate a car that most Americans would find acceptable (decent power, air conditioning, automatic transmission) you'd pay a lot more in the U.K.

[Secret Agent Man]

Thats why most people drive tiny pieces of crap over there. I remember driving in england in the 1990s. The nicest car i drove around in was a good ol american buick roadmaster station wagon. Huge car compared to what most people rode in.

[Celerity]

I learned something about buying cars in Europe as well.

VAT tax.

So no, thank you. Will never do that.