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It depends on personal circumstances. It's much easier to buy a caravan 5miles from where you live. How familiar are you with driving abroad & communicating with people who's language you don't speak? They might be fluent in English but they still have you at their advantage.
No probs for me, I have been driving in Europe for 40yrs, first in a truck & latterly on holiday but not so easy for those with little or no experience. How good are you with the internet? At a touch of a few buttons I could find caravans for sale both privately & at dealers anywhere in Europe. Judging from posts on here though, some folk have problems just using google so not so easy for them.
And then it's about getting what you want at a price you are prepared to pay. UK built caravans suit UK users, ie large bathrooms with large seating areas for sitting inside in UK bad weather, thats why they sell better in the UK & the foreign makes have failed to make serious inroads into the UK market.
It depends what you want from your caravanning. Many yr round UK 'vanners want a house on wheels with tv/large bathroom/hot water/oven so they want a large high spec caravan that they trade in every 3yrs. Much easier to do this at your local Bailey or Swift dealer & if you can afford to do that you don't need to save money anyway.
What the UK market does not supply is small, more basic fixed bed caravans. You can buy a caravan like this abroad new for £8-10K. If these caravans are imported by dealers for sale in the UK it will only be in a small way & sporadically so prices will be at a premium compared with same caravans at dealers abroad who are selling in larger volumes.
As for large top end caravans, when comparing UK makes with foreign makes one must be careful to compare like with like, which is often difficult. I would say that if one buys a large top end German caravan, it is through choice rather than any desire to save money, ie one wants a better caravan, not a cheaper caravan per se.
For those of us who simply want to save money then cheapest way is just to buy a cheap fixer upper off ebay not faff about buying abroad. My requirement is for basic small fixed bed 'van to use in southern France in summer & a £300 1980s 'van with interior modified by myself has worked for me for last 5yrs & far cheaper than buying a new small fixed bed Adria or Sterckeman abroad.
If one looks at secondhand prices from foreign dealers for 'vans a few yrs old, prices are not that cheap. Plenty of 'bargains' on German ebay but it's a long way to go to find caravan is not what one hoped for, so horses for courses, really.
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