I have just found this on the What Car? website. It allows you to compare up to four cars and see how they may depreciate over four years. I have found this useful to see whether the two I have my eye on will ever be in my price range (both have only just made an appearance on the market), and still be relatively new.

I will attempt a link... Depreciation Index - What Car?

scary

best not look me thinks

So which is the best prospect then??

so so depressing :(

so so depressing :(

Not so bad if you didn't pay full price.

Look up Vauxhall to make yourself feel better.

So which is the best prospect then??

Very interesting.

Shows the diesel retaining about two thirds of the price premium over the petrol

Yep, if you are only to keep the car 1 year the derv holds out much better.

Any longer than one year and there is very little in it. If you take into account the greater running costs an capitol costs it's easy to see now why the Petrol is the fuel of choice.

Any longer than one year and there is very little in it. If you take into account the greater running costs an capitol costs it's easy to see now why the Petrol is the fuel of choice.

What greater running costs?

There is an £855 difference when new , and after three years the diesel will still be worth £695 more.

Servicing costs and intervals are nearly identical and the diesel will be cheaper to tax and probably cheaper to install too.

Diesel fuel is 10% more expensive than unleaded , but only about 5% more expensive than the super unleaded you are supposed to use in the petrol , and in practice you'll get at least 25% greater economy if not more like 40%

Any longer than one year and there is very little in it. If you take into account the greater running costs an capitol costs it's easy to see now why the Petrol is the fuel of choice.

I'm not sure that statement stands true.

At present the price of derv is 15p higher than standard unleaded and 5p more than super unleaded.

A vRS 2.0 TFSI needs super to run properly so it's 5p a litre. Driving either in best case you are looking at 40mpg and 55mpg from a tank driving carefully so based on 4.5L per gallon an extra 22.5p gets you an extra 15 miles. If you put that extra 22p back into fuel it will buy about 1/6th of a litre or about 1 mile of fuel.

Driving them hard all the time the TDI will hit about 30-40mpg and i have no idea what a TFSI would get but I doubt it's any closer.

Servicing costs are pretty much the same, so add spark plugs, coils and HT leads and then remove some extra tyre wear that the TDI may have and I really don't see a big difference.

I think it's going to be entirely down to what you like to drive or derv if you do big miles in a year.

I was speaking to a friend who works at a local refinery and they seem to think that the price difference won't last as they are now producing at least enough derv again, which was part of the problem before. They thought that the prices would tend towards being the same or a few pence difference again in the very near future.

I've already seen the derv stay the same and petrols go up 2p where I fill up so there could be some truth in this.

Thats an interesting site... :rubchin:

Scary how much cars go down by in the first year alone! :eek:

The Focus runs just fine on 95RON as well.

Thats an interesting site... :rubschin:

Scary how much cars go down by in the first year alone! :eek:

The Focus runs just fine on 95RON as well.

Yes it did run very well on standard unleaded indeed, plus that noise on overrun :D:D

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Some interesting results indeed..

So in the first year alone the loses look something like this...

Octy=£6716

Honda CTR=£3993

Seat LCR=£6448

Focus ST=£5584

How that relates to the real world is anyone's guess...

:orb_sleep

What is that in reference to?

Surely you can't have it both ways?

Whilst creating the graph above I did check out the Mégane Renaultsport 230 F1 Team R26.. that is either massively wrong or only to be looked at by the very brave as it is truly scarey!! :eek:

Hmmmm.

I would take it with a pinch of salt. You wont buy a 1 year old VRS for £11199...

Hmmmm.

I would take it with a pinch of salt. You wont buy a 1 year old VRS for £11199...

Aren't those trade in values

I don't believe the Focus ones either. I thought there were loads about secondhand and uber-chavs couldn't afford to run them.

Aren't those trade in values

I don't believe the Focus ones either. I thought there were loads about secondhand and uber-chavs couldn't afford to run them.

Yeah, these figures can't be right... I mean look...

The Astra even holds it's value better in the first year...

I know where you can get a 1 year old VRS for £11.5k and a 1 Year old TDI for £12.5k so I don't think they are that far out. Sure it isn't a main dealer, but then main dealers are always at the top end of the asking price anyway.

To be fair they can't be undervaluing skoda and over valuing for and x, y z...

Either they are totally wrong at which point the initial comment is incorrect and the whole lot should be ignored or they are treated as valid at which point the ford/CTR etc comments are right too.

Yeah, these figures can't be right... I mean look...

The Astra even holds it's value better in the first year...

I did a search on autotrader and there were a few local 2007-07s from £14K in the car supermarket and £15K at ford dealers

I think the ford value is a little optimistic, try autotrader for yourself. I couldn't get the search link to copy and paste right