Cayenne Depreciation

m4ttc · Jun 29, 2005

Anyone traded in their Cayenne or contemplated it? This weeks Autocar has a guy who asked their trader talk section how much he'd lost on his 11 month old, 6000 mile Black Cayenne V6??? £10k was the reply. Trade In value around £30k with a private sale if lucky of £33k. [FONT=verdana,geneva"]

Seems a bit steep as the same cars are £40k on the Porsche forecourts and £37.5k + private. [FONT=verdana,geneva"]

daro911 · Jun 29, 2005

ORIGINAL: m4ttc

Trade In value around £30k with a private sale if lucky of £33k. Seems a bit steep as the same cars are £40k on the Porsche forecourts and £37.5k + private.

Perhaps thats why they stay on the forecourts [&o]

m4ttc · Jun 29, 2005

Seems a similar story on the Boxsters too. Guy I work with was selling 12 month old silver S with 10,000 miles that he paid £43k for...stealer offered him £31.5k for it. Hard to take when they had an similar age/spec model on their forecout at £39950

pwebb · Jun 30, 2005

Anyone tried selling privately, and if so which publication/website?

OPC's want a £6k margin between trade in and forecourt to cover overheads. With my last Boxster S I was able to split the difference and get £3k more than trade in from a private sale.

timbo · Jul 4, 2005

I recently sold my V6 manual Cayenne
It had done 20,000 miles needed a sevice and new tyres
It was in good condition -I lost 10K on it for 14 months motoring

not too bad

tim

pvernham · Jul 4, 2005

Depends whether you consider £10K good value for 14 months of motoring.

I part exchanged my X5 3.0d sport recently against a new X5 for a loss of £12K over purchase price. That was for 3 years and 52,000 miles, and the car would need a major service and new tyres within the next few thousand miles.

Incidentally, OPC offered the same trade in value for the X5 against a Cayenne demonstrator.

Guest · Jul 6, 2005

At the end of the day most people with the money to burn on 18mpg V8 4x4 also have the money to buy a new one....thus price has to be a lot lower to shift it.. When the hybrid cayenne V6/electric comes out that will depreciate relatively slowly, but the others will never be great in depreciation stakes vs a 911 for example..