want to know how well today’s factory-fresh automobiles will maintain their value three years from now? The figures are normally off limits, but automobile express has been given exclusive access to produce a winners’ and losers’ league table of models gotten this summer – and this reveals the automobile predicted to hold a lot of of its value is the Porsche 911 Carrera Cabriolet.
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We compiled the 10 best and worst lists using up-to-the-minute ‘forecast trade value’ data from industry specialist CAP. This contained a lot more than 40,000 models, prices, percentages and predictions. but to stop the top and bottom 10 being dominated by versions of a single car, we’ve only allowed one of each model on to our league tables.
This also gives us a greatest depreciator list, showing the automobiles that will lose their value fastest if gotten new today. At the bottom is the Volvo S80.
And while the Germans are the depreciation champs with several brands (Porsche, Mercedes, Audi, BMW and BMW-owned MINI) in the automobile Express/CAP top 10, US-owned GM appears to be the chump, with too lots of Vauxhall and Cadillac models in the bottom 10.
The detailed, usually top-secret CAP figures demonstrate that the ‘best’ automobiles are predicted to depreciate by less than 50 per cent, three years/30,000 miles after being purchased new. but the ‘worst’ will plummet by a lot more than 80 per cent, making them atrocious new automobile investments.