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Post by dixinormus on Nov 9, 2021 20:12:39 GMT
Have UK secondhand car prices levelled off yet, or are they still climbing?
VW NZ have just advised the market that they only have 60 new cars across their entire range to sell until the next shipment arrives... in late March! Oh well the country is bankrupting itself with Covid hardship handouts so it won’t be long before demand for new cars stalls anyway...
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Post by WDB on Nov 9, 2021 21:01:26 GMT
Up 30 percent since May, according to an industry bloke interviewed on Today this morning.
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Post by Humph on Nov 9, 2021 21:45:06 GMT
Quite interesting above…
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Post by Alanović on Mar 1, 2022 15:24:02 GMT
So anyway. Things have changed in my deranged mind since October when I decided to keep the Civic. I think I discussed in another thread that I might well go ahead and sell it in March due to the premium such cars are attracting at the moment. Back in October I was being offerd a smidge below £12k for the car - yesterday I advertised it on Motoroway (a selling platform for dealers to buy stock), and I've been offered a smidge under £13k. I will have, therefore, a £6k budget to replace it.
I paid £13k for it in 2019.
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Post by Humph on Mar 1, 2022 15:28:00 GMT
Blimey. But I suppose the the other side of that equation is that your £6k isn’t going to buy as much car as it once would have.
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Post by Alanović on Mar 1, 2022 15:33:59 GMT
That's true of course. I have my eye on something quite pleasing (to me) at £4.5k at the moment. Leaving some monies for any maintenance it might need. It's that 50k mile, 57-reg Mondeo 2.3 Titanium X auto which I mused about a few weeks ago. Still available.
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Post by Humph on Mar 1, 2022 15:37:48 GMT
Probably quite sensible to leave a bit of a rainy day pot to one side if going with an older car. Mondeos are usually a very nice drive.
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Post by Humph on Mar 1, 2022 15:39:40 GMT
Have you a link to a current ad?
(So we can mock it a bit I suppose, you know how this works) 😉
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Post by Alanović on Mar 1, 2022 15:40:23 GMT
Yes. And roomy. Being in that Passat all last week really did bring home that the Civic is a fairly small car, for a family of 4 fully grown people and a dog. I shall miss it though, it's a lively and very useful little thing.
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Post by Alanović on Mar 1, 2022 15:44:46 GMT
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Post by WDB on Mar 1, 2022 15:45:50 GMT
I shall miss it though, it's a lively and very useful little thing. …until you change your mind again and keep it. You’ve spent two years telling us how it’s the equal of the E for space.
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Post by Humph on Mar 1, 2022 15:46:48 GMT
It’s a hatch It’s £340 tax It’s 30mpg it’s 15 years old
Apart from that, why not eh…
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Post by Alanović on Mar 1, 2022 15:52:39 GMT
Well we've been round those buoys a lot. A Mondeo hatch is plenty big enough for what I need, find me a large petrol automatic car with significantly lower VED at £4.5k, and it won't do enough miles for the MPGs to matter. The alternative is diesel, and that way lies high mileage cars with DPFs, DMFs, ERGs, QPRs, injectors, turbos, cambelts, all that stuff to go expensively wrong.
So yes, why not. I'm not a salesman hitting the motorways of Europe. Some things are less important to some people. I reliase it's not the car for you Humph, but it's pretty much the best (second, occasional) car for me, within my budget.
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Post by Humph on Mar 1, 2022 15:56:29 GMT
…and, you could do a bit of mini cabbing in it to fund the petrol I guess. 😉
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Post by Alanović on Mar 1, 2022 16:04:45 GMT
Now you're making sense, Guv'nor. How are your airport runs doing?
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