Used Car prices and depreciation

neilmcl

Ybe wrote: »

But almost all car manufactures refresh their models every 4-6 years. So does that mean unless you buy a car produced in the first year of a refresh cycle, you lose more to depreciation?

Well just think about it. Vehicle cost aside, you're buyer looking at 2 cars pretty much the same age except one of them has had a refresh, all things being equal which would you want!

Arklight

Newer isn't always better. It's a well known fact in the driving world that the 2nd generation Nissan Almera was far superior in looks and kudos to either the first or third. The aggressive sporty lines of the Mk2 were an altogether different vehicle to the bland,"Grandad on the way to Ladbrokes" conformity of the Mk 3.

It's well known the Mk2 was the edgier more challenging model owned by those with a devil may care attitude.


Nissan Almera Mk1



Nissan Almera Mk 2 (feast your eyes)


Nissan Almera Mk 3 (yawn)

EssexExile

"Feast your eyes" on a Nissan Almera - really?

GunJack

EssexExile wrote: »

"Feast your eyes" on a Nissan Almera - really?

He can't help it, he had one for millenia !!! :rotfl:

Mercdriver

We had a mk 2 3 door in red. It was ok. The wife quite liked it. She put it in a few years later for a blue 5 door 307.

wgl2014

Almera, the answer for everything!

facade

GunJack wrote: »

He can't help it, he had one for millenia !!! :rotfl:

Which is usually his point. It lasted for millenia. (despite never servicing it IIRC).

Nissan UK built their reputation on the MK1 & MK2 Almera. Nothing Nissan have sold since has come anywhere near their level of build quality & reliabilty.

Mercdriver

facade wrote: »

Which is usually his point. It lasted for millenia. (despite never servicing it IIRC).

Nissan UK built their reputation on the MK1 & MK2 Almera. Nothing Nissan have sold since has come anywhere near their level of build quality & reliabilty.

The wife's red mk II had the EML almost permanently on nearly the whole time she had it. It never actually broke down, but the EML was on 70% of the time.

Nebulous2

I had an Almera mark II as a company car. It got to 100k and the gearbox went catastrophically. It started whining one day, I called the fleet manager who said keep driving it it will be fine, two days later it went bang. Company scrapped it as they couldn't source a gearbox and fit it for less than the car was worth.



The Focus they replaced it with was a much better car.

facade

Does this not underline my point about the MK1 of anything being the best?