Do you prefer your depreciation rare, or been done?

[Jon39]

"Your car Sir, in 2 years time, will have lost £100,000.
Oh, try not to drive more than 3,800 miles."

Perhaps rather unfortunate, that these two cars appeared side by side on the Pre-owned list.

[Finding Neutral]

Never have and never will understand having a cool car and not driving it.

Nope. Never.

[bogie]

wow ...now thats some depreciation for barely a years weekend mileage

[cadman]

if i could afford to spend 300 + pounds on a car (obviously money no object)
i wouldn't worry about depreciation.
i love my $50k v8 vantage and wouldn't care if it was only worth $10k today

[Jon39]

cadman said:

if I could afford to spend 300 + pounds on a car (obviously money no object) I wouldn't worry about depreciation.

There might be some people who can now afford a £300 + car, purely because they have always tried to minimise motor vehicle depreciation.
However I would suggest, that they are unlikely to be amongst the prospective customers, for a used car expected to have a 2 year, £100,000 loss.

[MMarkM]

Jon39 said:

"Your car Sir, in 2 years time, will have lost £100,000.
Oh, try not to drive more than 3,800 miles."

Perhaps rather unfortunate, that these two cars appeared side by side on the Pre-owned list.

Point taken but to be fair they are extremely different specs. one being a limited edition with some priced goodies. I'd imagine the 007 car would hold a slightly better value 2 years down the line

[Jon39]

MMarkM said:

Point taken but to be fair they are extremely different specs. one being a limited edition with some priced goodies. I'd imagine the 007 car would hold a slightly better value 2 years down the line

Sorry Mark if I was being rather 'tabloid' (using only half the story, to make a headline).

I did not know that the 007 version (is that a limited edition?) is expected to more desirable and therefore suffer less depreciation, than a 59 limited edition.

I was indeed confused because seeing reference to 59, did make me think of the cars which were handed to customers at Le Mans (a dealer limited edition). But the car for sale is not green, so those might be two different limited editions.

Although with considerable help, I eventually created the Vantage limited edition table, you can now see that I am totally unsuited to compile a table of DBS limited editions. - There do seem to be quite a few of them.

Edited by Jon39 on Saturday 2nd October 10:29

[cayman-black]

To counter this if you had bought a second hand DBS a year ago it is worth more today.

[Jon39]

cayman-black said:

To counter this, if you had bought a second hand DBS a year ago, it is worth more today.

Paul, are your referring to the 5.2 litre TT DBS (formally called DBSS) ?

[hueyhoolihan]

i would think that depreciation should be evaluated in terms of a percentage of the original sticker price and not as a lump sum amount so as to use it to compare depreciation over time (assuming an equal time interval) between any two cars, regardless of price range.

[Djit]

I reckon the one on the right is a TAG edition. The best looking DBSS IMHO is the OHMSS edition but I’d prefer it without the 007 badging, but then its a £100k premium to get the colour, wheels, trim and grille, which is quite a premium to pay.

[cayman-black]

Jon39 said:

Paul, are your referring to the 5.2 litre TT DBS (formally called DBSS) ?

Yes Jon one of these up at least £15k from last year.

https://www.pistonheads.com/buy/listing/12193413