Turners Auctions

Buying or selling cars used to be a tricky thing, but these days you can get finance on new and old cars, so you don’t need to be a rich bugger to buy a fancy car. I for one flat out refuse to buy a new car; it is just such a bad investment that I will never get to enjoy the new car smell.
80% of my vehicle purchases to date came from under the hammer of the Turner’s auctioneers. The reason I like to shop at Turner’s is simple, they make it easy. You walk in, look around to see if they have a car you like, you test drive it, then you pay what you want, and if someone else wants it more… Then you look for another car. Simple…
Once you’ve found your dream car, and your bid is the winner, then you fill in a form, they slap on a rego and off you go. No salesman involved, and you pay what you think is the right price, with many bargains to be had.

I am no expert on cars, in fact I have only began driving since I moved to New Zealand a few years ago but this seems to be a good place to go for a deal. We wanted a car a few years ago and our budget was $ 6K — we simply couldn’t go over that. We wanted a hatchback in silver, just something of a reasonable good quality that was economical on gas. We had our eye on a Mazda Demio but when the time came to bid, we were up against this Asian guy who seemed to want the car as much as we did. We went as far as 5900 and he finally backed out. I can’t help thinking that if he wasn’t there that day we would have got our car for about a grand cheaper. Anyway it came in 100 dollars under budget and has been good to us during our last few years in Auckland — I really don’t know how you can survive without a car in this town. Turners do good deals on cars like this and you can usually find what you are looking for.