Your say on car supermarkets

30 June 2005

What Car? is researching car supermarkets – and is hunting for Whatcar.com readers who have shopped at one of Britain’s supersites.

If you've bought a car from one of the supermarkets listed below, we want to hear from you

What Car? is researching car supermarkets – and is hunting for Whatcar.com readers who have shopped at one of Britain’s supersites.

If you’ve bought a car in the past two years from one of the 27 supermarkets listed below, we want to hear from you. Good or bad, your experiences will help our investigators rate the standard of service offered by these cut-price traders.

Your findings will be published in a future issue of What Car? magazine and on Whatcar.com, and will help other readers find the best supermarkets – and avoid the sharks.

Please click on one of the following choices to e-mail us and give some details of your car supermarket experience:

Good: I’d shop at a car supermarket again
Bad: It was a nightmare, I wouldn't do it again
Undecided: No real compalints, but not a brilliant experience either

The car supermarkets being investigated include:

Arnold Clark Motorstore (Glasgow)
Autoplanet (Maidstone)
Available Car (Donington)
Bristol Trade Centre (Bristol)
Carcraft (Leeds)
Car Giant (London)
Carland (London)
The Car People (Wakefield)
The Car Shop Megastore (Northampton)
CP Motors (Wales)
DC Cook Direct (Manchester/Rotherham)
Eddie Wright (Scunthorpe)
Exeter Car Supermarket (Exeter)
Ford of Winsford (Winsford)
Hilton Garage (Derbyshire)
Jefferies Farm (Crawley)
JW Sandle (Kings Lynn, Norfolk)
Ian Shipton Cars (Burton-on-Trent)
Motor House 2000 (Cannock)
Motor Nation (Birmingham)
Motorpoint (Derby)
Ron Skinner and Sons (Wales)
Sanderson Motorhouse (Cheltenham, Plymouth)
Stebbings Car Superstore (Kings Lynn, Norfolk)
Southampton Car Supermarket (Southampton)
Trade Sales (Slough)
Virgin Cars (Salford)