So I tried a Supra

[Angelus666]

It’s flavour of the month, but you’ve got to think that car will definitely get hit hard by depreciation when it kicks in. Dropping £50k into a Toyota feels very risky.

 

[ronk]

It’s flavour of the month, but you’ve got to think that car will definitely get hit hard by depreciation when it kicks in. Dropping £50k into a Toyota feels very risky.

It would have cost me £28k to change my car with a like for like spec ( 9.5k / 33months) so I don't think Toyota have a monopoly in the depletion dept - unless they are worse?
If they are, I would avoid.

 

[Angelus666]

It’s flavour of the month, but you’ve got to think that car will definitely get hit hard by depreciation when it kicks in. Dropping £50k into a Toyota feels very risky.

It would have cost me £28k to change my car with a like for like spec ( 9.5k / 33months) so I don't think Toyota have a monopoly in the depletion dept - unless they are worse?
If they are, I would avoid.

That's bonkers isn't it. New cars have become so expensive as they are almost always bought on a PCP scheme just to somehow make them affordable. It's the future gamble on depreciation % that people play with a new car purchase, and in this £40k-70k bracket, it's tricky to pick the car that will cost you the least over the 3 year term.

Unbelievably the safest place to put your new car money, is not german or japanese, it's french right now with the Alpine A110.

 

[ronk]

I agree, the trend does seem to be lease / pcp - the payments for a car are just another household bill so the depreciation just goes largely unseen.