Crazy Main Dealer Trade in offers !

[sparkmacan]

Crazy but today I was only looking at a New RS4 Sport edition ! ,
Dealer asked if I fancied a price on my GTS, go on then I said.

Came back with an OPC office of 44K !!!!!!!!!!!!

Madness, 66 plate car with 7 k Miles - new it was 68K ....& its mint as new

No wonder they can have new Dealerships & upgrades..

[Rhys2004]

Good job you didn't have a mercedes to part exchange

[Ian.g]

So I take it you decided against trading in?

[Paul]

“willing purchaser and willing buyer” (or words to that effect)

Supply and demand determine the price; don’t forget yours is now 3 years old (irrespective of “mint” condition)

Pop your reg no into autotrader - that will give you a retail sale price....

Mine was (is) similar age, 27000 miles, mint, private sale £46, p/x £42......sounds like you had a sensible offer.....your choice

[Scottchp]

Dealers are struggling to sell cars at the minute and prices are dropping of the stock they have. Their way round this is to buy the next lot of stock as cheap as possible.

[Col Lamb]

So that is a value of c65% of new after 33 months

Or c£750 depreciation a month.

With only 7,000 miles since new it is a large hit to take per mile, £3.43 per mile on depreciation alone, factor in fuel, insurance, service, tax then you may well have been better off using Uber.

[Macananon]

Or c£750 depreciation a month.

Would have cost more to lease or hire per month.

With some cars it can be the other way round.

All part of my decision making process.

[Pivot]

When the supply and demand will normalise, the resell value will revert to the mean.

[Rigger]

“Came back with an OPC office of 44K !!!!!!!!!!!!”

You did better than my offer from an OPC against another brand new Porker as opposed to a.n.other make. The offer was 42k. Car was 68k in Mar 2017 when I bought it and it has 8900 miles on it. WBAC offered around 4K more and another Porsche buyer offered 5k more than the OPC.

Decided not to spaff thousands more up the wall in depreciation so will keep my 997.1 Turbo as I am currently “up” on ownership of that one.

The Macan GTS I will just continue to run.....for now. Then probably trade it for an EV at some point. Kia is looking good with a 7 year warranty !

[wilko]

As others have said, seems entirely fair to me. New cars depreciate quite rapidly. Expensive new cars are expensive to own.
For any new porsche you should budget £1k a month. If you get away with less you’ve done well.
Make sure if you buy an rs4 that you get a huge discount, and have Fort Knox as a garage and an armed escort to protect it.
A colleague of mine has had one 2 months from new. House broken into twice, and an attempted car jacking. He”s ex army and a bit of a nutter and even he’s ditched it against something subtle.
Lost £19k in 2 months.
Makes your gts look Uber cheap!