IF ONLY buying a car was as easy as paying the advertised price and then driving away. Unfortunately it’s not, and these are the costs to look out for.
“DRIVE away, no more to pay”? Well, you’d kind of hope so, wouldn’t you? Once you’ve driven the car out of the dealership you don’t really expect to pay for anything more than fuel and funding the lives of traffic-light windscreen washers.
But then, so many advertising phrases make little sense — “I bought a Jeep (in an upbeat tone), “I can’t believe it’s not butter (why not, that’s what it’s called?) or “Building better kids, one punch at a time” (from a martial arts-school ad) — but slogans like “drive-away pricing” and “no on-road costs” are right up there in the pantheon. They both sound simple enough, and covering “o…