Macan is the slowest depreciating vehicle

[Greddyuk]

This is an interesting site.

https://www.howmanyleft.co.uk/?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=macan

This tells us how many Macans (or any other vehicles if changed in the search) are still registered in the UK up to date.
According to this - the depreciation will be based on the number of vehicles left in the country and availability (Supply & Demand).

The performance pack - as we could clearly see has only 272 vehicles currently registered in UK so they are really holding its value well!!

T.

[Spud]

I still think it's a con! >60% value after 3 years? I doubt it. They might retain 60% of base price at 3 years, but how many people have a base price Macan? If you write off the £5-15k extras that everyone has then it might return 60% of the base price, but not 60% of what anyone actually paid.

Having spent quite a fair amount on “extras” on Macan 2 I learnt my lesson, on Macan 4 I spent no more than 10% based on base price, I feel this is probably a good rule of thumb,

[Deleted User 2325]

If you intend to keep the car for the longer term then why not splash out on the extras and get what you want?

On the other hand if you have your eye fixed on price not value then buying a new car is probably nuts anyway?

[nsm3]

I've been watching one on Pistonheads recently, some groovy, Matt grey colour with every conceivable extra on it. Started at £74,995 and is down to £59,995 in about 3 weeks! Not a real depreciation example of course, but amused me at how much people 'try it on'!

[MikeM]

I've been watching one on Pistonheads recently, some groovy, Matt grey colour with every conceivable extra on it. Started at £74,995 and is down to £59,995 in about 3 weeks! Not a real depreciation example of course, but amused me at how much people 'try it on'!

Saw that one. It's also on Autotrader, being sold through TH Boler who work on a commission basis for private sellers, good way to sell though. I am guessing any OPC would offer dramatically lower. The lowered price is still top heavy considering the miles, but £26k of extras! Your just asking for a big hit on resale. All the same a unique colour, great interior (but I'm biased there) and a diesel,which will appeal to some. Take another £4K off and it should move quickly

[mark-yorkshire]

I've been watching one on Pistonheads recently, some groovy, Matt grey colour with every conceivable extra on it. Started at £74,995 and is down to £59,995 in about 3 weeks! Not a real depreciation example of course, but amused me at how much people 'try it on'!

Saw that one. It's also on Autotrader, being sold through TH Boler who work on a commission basis for private sellers, good way to sell though. I am guessing any OPC would offer dramatically lower. The lowered price is still top heavy considering the miles, but £26k of extras! Your just asking for a big hit on resale. All the same a unique colour, great interior (but I'm biased there) and a diesel,which will appeal to some. Take another £4K off and it should move quickly

Certainly a lovely spec. I hope the original buyer got some discount as otherwise the depreciation will be hefty.

[Col M]

How long have they had it? Listed with 12K miles but showing 9,100 in the pictures. What no ceramic brakes! Could never find a video which demoed the effect of the sports exhaust with diesel.

[SAC1]

To save you looking it up, it's this one www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-ca ... dk/9119919

[MCDK]

Looks great but a crazy spec especially for a diesel. The owner needs to write off a whole lot of those option costs and put it down to experience.

[johnd]

Looks great but a crazy spec especially for a diesel. The owner needs to write off a whole lot of those option costs and put it down to experience.

That was one of the problems with diesels though - there was only one SD model AFAIK. So you couldn't trade up to say a GTSD and get some of the options included to help the depreciation. Whatever options you chose were likely to depreciate faster.

(That said, I suppose the converse could be true to some extent as well - if as a used buyer there are certain options that you really want in an SD then maybe well-chosen (ie popular, though not sure exactly what those might be) options do maybe help bolster the sale price, as long as it's not WBAC.)