A CAR "supermarket" has promised to take the hassle out of buying imported vehicles.

Autolink, at Parkwood Industrial Estate, Maidstone, says that buying an imported car has always been a bit of a lottery.

But now this growing car supermarket chain is offering to make it easier to buy imported cars at discounted prices.

The company expects to sell more than 10,000 cars nationwide this year, with 40 per cent new imported cars it claims will be sold at up to 30 per cent off the UK list price.

It operates from three other sites - in Chingford, Southampton and Leicester.

"We see ourselves as the first of the new generation car supermarkets, offering new and used cars with all the back-up of a franchised main dealer but with the savings of a car importer," said marketing manager Neil D'Silva.