Dealer’s Diary
Between the lines
► I’ve just done something that I once did pretty-much every month, but haven’t done at all for several years; I’ve bought a Rover 75! It’s a 2004 Connoisseur SE Diesel estate (an early facelift version). At the time of writing/ going to press I haven’t actually seen it – it was an online BCA purchase that will be arriving from Leeds by transporter in the next week. I thought, though, that it might be useful to go through the purchase decision-making process.
First good news was the source; main dealer part-exchange from a very large dealer group; Lookers in this case. It was also a Grade 3 car, and while that would be a fairly middling grade for a two-year-old car, because grading is absolute and takes no account of age, for a 17-year-old it was good – very good in fact! It was also a two-owner car with a ‘last new V5C’ date of 2012, meaning that the last owner had
