Why are Saxo VTS so cheap second hand?

[Swerve17]

I just checked on ebay and there is a 52 plate VTS with just 16k miles going for £2300.

Why so cheap? it's a quick car (easily quicker than golf GTis of similar vintage) which handles great and doesn't cost an arm and a leg to run? I've driven a 1.6 205 gti and I genuinely prefered the driving experience of the Saxo. I remember I did 22k in one year in mine I enjoyed it so much.

Is it just because of the image? I've just checked on ebay, and there was another sold in January with 17k miles and it only went for £1600.

Link for the first one - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Stunning-Citroen-Saxo-VT...

Link for the second one - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2003-Citroen-Saxo-VTS-Ve...

I'm nothing to do with either cars I should add.

[DanielJames]

I paid £875 for a very good one nearly 4 years ago.

Was a W reg.



Loved the car.

[hornetrider]

Because it's a 12 year old French POS chavmobile?

[PAUL RUN]

well they are 12 years old now.
£2300 for a 12 year old car which didn't cost the earth to buy new....
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my current car. a SAAB 93 softop Aero with 210hp leather, traction control, etc etc, cost £32,000 new....ouch....
2006 plate. with FSH and 43k according to "we buy anycar" is worth approx £3200....
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paul.

[carl_w]

£280/year road tax for the post-2001 ones has an effect

[DanielJames]

4 star were asking, and seemingly got close to 9k for a 106 GTi with 4k on it recently.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Peugeot-106-1-6-GTi-/121...

The VTS was never held in the same light unfortunately, despite being pretty much exactly the same car.

I guess that goes to show what a good brand name can do, just a shame Peugeot pissed the GTI badge up the wall with the 206.

[Engineer1]

Because Citroen pricing was like DFS pricing I doubt anyone ever bought a Citroen for list price.

[OlberJ]

Just goes to show what the much better looking, sharp 106 GTi goes for!

Never got on with the soggy bulbous look of the Saxo although I have contemplated a few as something to rag about.

[Motorrad]

To be honest I think 2300 sounds like a hell of a lot when you can get the far superior Clio 172/182 in good condition for the same money.

Inversely if they do really cost that they've held their value very well indeed.

the one that reached 1600 quid is more like it for a low mile minter

[jimmy156]

£2300 cheap for a 12 year old saxo, that is bloody expensive!

I would have expected them all to be sub 1k by now!

[Swerve17]

This was mine, I wonder if its still out there. I over paid for it when I bought it, considering my name is Adam the number plate caught me. The last year I taxed mine for cost me £275, which is a lot but when you consider my current banger Bora tdi costs me £225 rent for a year it was worth the extra £50 without question. if I was in any position to do so I'd buy the low mileage one and store it for a few years, got to be quite a sound investment surely? People seem to love elderly hot hatches!

[Swerve17]

jimmy156 said:

£2300 cheap for a 12 year old saxo, that is bloody expensive!

I would have expected them all to be sub 1k by now!

Most of them are! Only the lower mileage ones go for more than a bag of sand now. You can get Clios for a similar price but nothing like as low mileage.

[scorcher]

Swerve17 said:

my name is Adam the number plate caught me.

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[Swerve17]

scorcher said:

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Tenuous I know, but of all the letters it could have been it sort of reads Adz. Maybe I talked myself into that one! More than one of my friends at the time thought I'd bought a private plate though.

[P-Jay]

I can't think of another car that has earned such a poor reputation for attracting the wrong kind of owner, doesn't make them a bad car, but they were THE car of the modding scene in the mid-2000s and had all sorts of horrible body kits and 'zorsts' mercilessly bashed onto them.

I'm genuinely shocked they find buyers at £2300, when as some have said the cooler (imho) and faster RenaultSport Clios are cheaper.

[GroundEffect]

£2300 is cheap for a 12 year old Citroen?

I paid not much more for my 13 year old Integra Type R...

[BGarside]

They're cheap because they were cheaply made in the first place and most have been subject to years of thrashing by un sympathetic owners.

Also there's the image problem derived from some of the boy racers and chavs that owned them.

Pity really as they are lightweight, small and look like fun to drive. I don't think I could get past the boy racer image though...

[All that jazz]

Swerve17 said:

I over paid for it when I bought it, considering my name is Adam the number plate caught me.

<looks at number plate>

[anonymous-user]

Swerve17 said:

jimmy156 said:

£2300 cheap for a 12 year old saxo, that is bloody expensive!

I would have expected them all to be sub 1k by now!

Most of them are! Only the lower mileage ones go for more than a bag of sand now. You can get Clios for a similar price but nothing like as low mileage.

£2300 is silly money for an old Saxo regardless of mileage. Considering you can get a 172 Clio for 1.5k-ish.

[andymc]

Maybe it was someone's teenage kicks