Saab depreciation in the UK

Dec 14, 2005 4 Replies
C

Does anyone know if there's any publically available figures on depreciation of Saabs in the UK? I know all the lease and finance companies nust use estimates for calculating their rates and GMV values. However, a reasonable amount of googling has turned up nothing.



My interest is partly to offset "buyer's regret" -I'm just about to p-ex my 9-3 for a 9-5 Aero. The Aero is only 8 months old but some



65% of the new value - I'm rather hoping that the depreciation that I suffer over the next 2~3 years is rather more bearable!
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J

Just about any car depreciates at a ludicrous rate in the UK, a car is not an investment, just buy one you like and drive it until you feel you've gotten your money's worth of use out of it.

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N

"Autocar" magazine has a pretty good residual value column in the new car price list at the back of the magazine.

It shows that BMW 3 series and Mercedes Benz C class have the best residual values.

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J

In the UK if you want "better" residuals buy a German Turbo Diesel. You'll pay more than you'll save but you'll get better residuals.

Best to think of cars as consumables (like underwear, but less sexy)

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G

New Saabs especially the 9.5 are very heavily discounted in the UK (pre registered etc.) So in calculating depreciation you have to take a realistic purchasing price into account. Like many other cars in their class Saabs are a specialist car and do have high depreciation in their first few years.

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