MYSTERY ADVERTS Mystery surrounds full-page adverts taken in the car
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trade press by website www.trucksave.com offering -massive savings" on new Mercedes-Benz Atego 815 and 818s and MAN L2000 8.155 and 8.185 7.5-tonners sourced from the Continent.
The ads state that it can supply right-hand-drive UK-specification Atego Bibs from £17,500. and right-hand-drive UK specification 8.155s from £16,000. Left-hand-drive versions are also available. The minimum order requirement is a mix of 10, and it is possible to spread deliveries over two and 12 months.
The vehicles are available with Austrian body conversions: a car transporter conversion costs from £4,000.
Repeated calls by C44 to the telephone number on the advertisement have failed to elicit details of who is behind the venture, or whereabouts in Europe the vehicles are actually sourced from. Both MAN and Mercedes-Benz are looking into the matter.