When I was looking to buy my car I visited Renault Manchester, I found the salesman completely disinterested in even talking about the car and once I started talking about the price I was told book price (£15k at the time) or nothing. I said I'd only got £13k at which point he muttered something about getting a second hand one and walked off.
So I thought, sod this. I went to Motorpoint in Burnley, paid £12k for a brand new unregistered car with 7 miles on the clock. The only difference between it and a UK car is that it doesn't have a Renault alarm and immobiliser. So I got a Sigma fitted which is much better than the Renault one anyway and still saved nearly £3k. All 172s are made on the same production line, so if someone says imports are inferior they're talking out of their arse. If anything the imports are better because they have a decent security system.