Buying a cheap new car isn’t as difficult as your local car dealer might want you to think - all you need is to know a few simple facts and you will be able to get the kind of deals that you hear other people talking about, but never seem to get yourself.

What you really need is some ‘insider information’. Someone in the know, who’s going to tell you just where the bargains are, and how to get them. Now a former dealer with 23 years of experience breaks the code of silence, and tells you how to save a fortune the next time you want to buy a car.

If you choose you’re moment, you can get a great deal. No dealer will turn you away because you’re buying at the wrong time, but the last week of every quarter (March, June, September and December) sees a rush to get registrations, and manufacturers give dealers bonus money for taxing cars then, and the dealers will pass that on to you for being in the right place at the right time.

The easiest saving that you’ll make when you visit a main dealer is to ask what company cars they have for sale. One of the perks of a job a car salesman gets is a company demonstrator. But when a new model or reg plate is out, the salesman will sell their own car for next to nothing to get a new one themselves!

Consider buying a pre-registered car. These are cars that have been registered in someone else’s name, either a dealer or a leasing company, in order to get extra discount. You would appear as the second owner, but the car is brand new with delivery mileage, and you will have saved hundreds - maybe even more - into the bargain.

You can save money when you use the dealers finance. Most dealers will go out of their way to undercut the banks in order to make their offer look better, so make sure that you’ve done your homework. As well as the millions of leaflets that are stuck inside every magazine you buy, all banks have leaflets on display with their rates for you to compare. Find the cheapest, then ask the dealer to beat it - if he can’t use the bank, but take my word for it, he’ll beat them 95% of the time.

Most people when they buy a new car have one to put in part exchange, but very few people get the best price for it, even though you already know how - you just don’t know that you know it. When you go to buy a car, you expect it to be clean, smelling nice, without any scuffs or scratches, right? Well if your car is clean, smelling nice and well polished a dealer will fall for your car the same way that you fall for theirs - just make it look the best you can, and you’ll get the best offers!

Buying a late model, low mileage car can half the list price of many cars. Think about this; if a new Mondeo has a list price of 18,000, and you can get one that’s six months old with 4,500 miles on the clock for half the price, would you buy it? Those cars are out there today, you just have to look. They have usually been owned by car rental companies who get huge discount from new, and then make their profit not by renting them out, but when they sell them on. They also know that they have to be well looked after to get the best price, so you can be sure that you’re buying a bargain that will still have more than two years of manufacturers warranty left.