Ford’s Kuga is a crossover which has proved to be very popular with new car buyers.  A big factor in the Kuga being so popular is some of the fantastic Ford Kuga deals that are available online and in car dealers.

There seem to be plenty of deals out there with Kugas discounted by 16-18% off Ford’s list price.  The best discount we were able to find on a Ford Kuga deal was from New Car and Van Offers, which is part of Allen Ford.  They have a deal for a Ford Kuga 2.0 TDCi Zetec for £18,995 – that’s a 20% saving.

The Ford Kuga Zetec’s standard equipment includes air conditioning, 17″ alloy wheels and keyless start.

The new Vauxhall Astra has been on sale for a few months and has proved to be a very popular car.  It was the second top selling car in the UK in April 2010, second only to the Ford Fiesta.

It is at about this stage of a new car’s life-cycle that good deals start to become available and it appears to be no different for new Vauxhall Astra deals.  We have found some excellent offers out there on the new Astra.  Perhaps unusually, Vauxhall dealers seem to have as good, if not better, new Astra deals as new car brokers.

Pentagon have a Vauxhall Astra 1.6 SRi 5dr for £13,495.  That is a whopping saving of 26% on a brand new car that has only been on sale for a matter of months.

Perrys also have a number of new Astra deals available with discounts of up to 25% available on selected models.

The new Mazda 2 has proved a very popular and stylish super-mini with UK drivers.  As Mazda themselves attest:

Its aerodynamic design and sporty looks provide a real wow factor. And even more wow when you’re driving a sports model with full sports kit.

As such there aren’t too many great Mazda 2 deals available.  The best offers we could find available on Mazda 2 deals was a saving of 6% on a Mazda 2 1.3 TS 3dr (A/C) from saveonnewcars.co.uk, at a price of £8,745.

For drivers looking for a slightly sportier model, buyacar.co.uk have a deal for a Mazda 2 1.5 Sport 5dr priced at £11,613, which also represents a saving of 6%.

We will keep you posted of any other good new Mazda 2 deals we come across but you if know of any yourselves then please leave a comment to let us know.

With the scrappage scheme not due to end until the end of March, 6 manufacturers have announced that they have already run out of funding.  Vauxhall, Fiat, Volkswagen, Kia, Audi and Hyundai have all had to suspend orders based on the scrappage scheme due to using up their allocation of  funds.

There is real fear within the industry that the end of the scrappage scheme could be spark a serious fall in new car sales.  To try to counter this many manufacturers are planning to launch their own scrappage schemes, with Vauxhall last week launching theirs.  There is a really feeling that once the Government’s scheme ends their will be a real shortage of new car deals available to consumers and sales could plummet.  Vauxhall’s scheme should at least mean that there are some good new Vauxhall deals in the market and surely more manufacturer’s will follow.

Nissan have announced that their new mainstream electric car, the Leaf, will be built in Sunderland from 2013, securing over 2000 jobs.  With many great Nissan deals already available, you will soon be able to help do your bit for the environment and the British economy buy buying a Nissan Leaf.

With a top speed of 90 mph, a range of 100 miles, and 5 seats, the Leaf is being heralded by Nissan as ”the world’s first affordable, mass-produced, zero-emission car”.

The One North East, a regional development agency, has pledged to install 1,300 re-charging points in the north-east over the next 3 years.

Nissan’s Sunderland plant currently produces the Micra, Note, Qashqai and Qashqai+2

The Vauxhall Astra is one of the best selling cars and the market and there are some great Vauxhall Astra deals out there with huge savings on most specifications.  When looking for deals on Vauxhall Astras you may find that Vauxhall dealers are able to compete with the brokers on price and in many cases the best Astra deals are being offered by the dealers.

We have managed to find two new Vauxhall Astra 5 door hatchback deals for under £10,000, both from main Vauxhall dealers.

The first is an Astra 1.4i 16V Active 5dr from Pentagon Group and is available with delivery mileage (it is a pre-registered car) for £9,995 saving nearly £6,000 off the manufacturer’s list price.  The Active specification has air conditioning, sports suspension and CD player with steering wheel mounted controls as standard.  Find the full specification for this car on the Vauxhall website.

If you would rather have a brand new, unregistered Astra than a pre-registered one then the following Astra deal from Perrys might interest you.  Once again the price is £9,995, saving nearly £5,000, but this time the deal is for an Astra 1.4 16V Life 5dr – a lower specification than the above Active but still with electric mirrors and CD player, but no air con.

As well as finding the above new Astra deals we also had a look around at some of the larger new car brokers to see if we could find a comparative deal but the above dealers’ prices were by far the best Astra deals we found.

If you are looking for a deal on an Astra with a bit higher specification then buyanewcaronline.co.uk have an Astra 1.6T 16V SRi Sport Hatch 3dr for £14,378, saving over £5,500.

We hope you have found the above Astra deals useful and New Cars Deals want to wish you luck in finding a great deal on a new Astra.

Read a Vauxhall Astra review on Parkers.

Saab are offering a 15% discount across the whole range - a saving equivalent to paying no VAT.  This deal is available on all Saab models, the 9-3 Saloon, Sport Wagon and Convertible and the 9-5 Saloon and Estate.  By taking advantage of this Saab no VAT offer you could get a brand new Saab 9-3 Saloon Vetor Sport 1.9TID 150bhp for £20978, saving £3116.  The Saab no VAT offers are available until 31st March 2009 and full details of this offer and all other Saab no VAT offers can be found at the Saab offers website.

BUT…. is this offer really that good?  We suspected that by shopping around we could find a better offer on the new Saab we looked at above, and we were right.  uk-car-discount.co.uk have an offer for a new Saab 9-3 Saloon Vector Sport 1.9 TID 150bhp for £19550, saving a further £1400 off the Saab no VAT off and a total of £4545 off list price.  They even have the 180bhp model for less than the Saab no VAT offer on the 150bhp model.  So, our advice to you is to take this offer from Saab (and all manufacturer offers for that matter) with pinch of salt and still continue to shop around as you will generally be able to find an even better offer.

 The new Vauxhall Insignia has been on sale for about 4 months now, and it is about now in a car’s life cycle that good discounts will start to be offered and you will start to find some good Insignia deals around.

The Vauxhall Insignia comes in 3 bodystyles: a 5 door hatchback, a 4 door saloon and an estate version.  We will be taking a look at each of these models to try and find the best new Vauxhall Insignia deals we can. 

Vauxhall Insignia Hatchback Deals

So, let’s begin by looking at Insignia hatchback deals – the cheapest Insignia we have been able to find is for a 1.8 16V Exclusiv 5dr at a price of £12960 from Pentagon Vauxhall and you can view this deal here.  Although this is the cheapest Insignia deal we could find we don’t think that it is necessarily the best deal out there for the Insignia hatchback – we think that honour goes to another deal from Pentagon for an Insignia 2.0 CDTi 160 5dr at a price of £13845 and a saving of just under £3000 we really think that this Insignia deal represents fantastic value for money and you can view this deal here.

Vauxhall Insignia Saloon Deals

Deal Drivers have a 2.0 CDTi Exclusiv Nav 4dr for £14836 saving over £2500.  This is the best Insignia Saloon deal we have been able to find, and with demand for the saloon lower than that for the hatchback it seems that Vauxhall dealers aren’t promoting this body style as much.

Vauxhall Insignia Estate Deals

Buyacar have the full range of Insignia estate models available and there are some good Insignia deals to be had on their website.  Their prices start at £14226 for the 1.8i 16V Exclusiv, saving over £2500, and go up to £24145 for the 2.8T V6 4×4 Elite Nav, saving over £5500.  We recommend that if you are looking for a Vauxhall Insignia estate deal then you should definitely take a look at the buyacar website.

Today we are going to have a look at the cheapest new Vauxhall Corsa deal we can find.  We started by having a look at Cars2Buy.co.uk’s new Corsa deals pages and found four dealers advertising the lead-in model – the 1.0i 12V Life 3dr.  Deal prices for this vehicle on Cars2Buy.co.uk’s price comparison site range from £6994 to £7376, with the cheapest price offering a saving of just under £2000.  The £6994 deal is for a pre-registered Corsa from Pentagon who are a main Vauxhall dealer based in the midlands, Lancashire and Yorksire.  Cars2Buy also have a new (as opposed to pre-registered) Vauxhall Corsa deal for the 1.0i 12V Life for £6995 from Save On New Cars.

To ensure we are telling you about the best possible new Corsa deals out there we also checked carpricechecker.co.uk’s Vauxhall Corsa deals to see how they compare.  The cheapest price they have to offer on their website is for £7376 (the same as the most expensive on cars2buy.co.uk) and this is for a pre-registered Corsa.  The cheapest new Corsa deal they have is from Hartwell and is £7824 – nearly £900 more expensive than the price from Save On New Cars advertised on cars2buy.co.uk.

If the 1.0i 12V engine from Vauxhall doesn’t particularly take your fancy and you would rather have something with a bit more grunt to it then maybe you would be better having a look at Vauxhall Corsa 1.6T 16V VXR 3dr deals.  We have managed to find this car for £14,004 from buyacar.co.uk and that would definitely be a price worth considering – or at least a price worth using as a bartering tool at your local dealer to try and negotiate a better new Vauxhall Corsa deal.

It may seem unbelievable but Citroen are still producing the Xsara Picasso and they are still available to buy as new vehicles – and yes, they do still look the same!  However, there are some great deals out there on this car.

We have checked around the car price comparison sites and the online car brokers and dealers and have found a few exceptional deals.  Let’s start with the best Citroen Xsara Picasso deal we could find – a 1.6 16V Desire from Citroen Coventry for £9,048, saving over £6000.  We weren’t able to find this deal on Citroen Coventry’s website but we did find it on cars2buy.co.uk’s Citroen Picasso deals pages where you can submit an enquiry directly to Citroen Coventry.

The next best price we could find for the Citroen Xsara Picasso 1.6 Desire was from bestpricecar.co.uk (Hartwell’s website) for £9273 – we found this on carpricechecker.co.uk.

If you are interested in the diesel version of this car then buyacar.co.uk have a Xsara Picasso deal on a 1.6 HDi 92 Desire for £10,410 or they have a deal on the more powerful diesel engine for £10,755 which has a saving of over £6,500.

If you would like to read a review of the Citroen Xsara Picasso then you can find one here.  The review summarises that although the Xsara Picasso isn’t the most practible or attractive people carrier, it’s high specification levels and low price make it a popular choice.  And with the Picasso deals that we have discovered we can understand why.  To be able to buy a brand new people carrier for £9000 is an amazing deal and one that really needs to be considered if you are in the market for this type of vehicle.  It is unlikely that any other similar vehicle will have deals as good as the Citroen Xsara Picassso deals we have found.