Still Depreciating ?

[Boyce]

Anyone else seen the 05MY 6.0ltr VXR with 7k on the clock for sale on the trader for 16k? can this be right ? seems very cheap to me but who knows.

[DevilYellowCV8]

Yup, depreciating quite nicely now thanks to Mr Brown.

Local Monaro dealer has an 04 CV8 for £15995. So you have to take into account the dealership 'mark-up'. Private sale that CV8 would probably be going for about £12-13k.

So glad I bought mine brand-new. At least I took the deprecation hit so the next owner won't have to.

[Boyce]

Yeah sure, but its still the cheapest one I've ever seen by some margin,

[anonymous-user]

That's why I'm never selling mine. I've already decided it'll be worth sod all even if I can sell it with a supercharger attached. I'm gonna keep it as a classic and tune it to 600bhp!

[johno38]

Hi guys tried to contact the add turns out to be a wrong number poor old chap has had loads of calls could be a spoof!!

[J. J.]

Too cheap, haven't (and wouldn't want to) seen similar one at that money. Dealer price would be nearer to 22?

[Boyce]

Yeah 22k would be about right unless its a cat c/d ? anyone else know anything about it ?

[flattotheboards]

sounds like a scam to me.

[willisit]

Nah that's WAY too low. Last week a good one like that (same as mine) would be £23k+. I know I could get that so it has to be either a typo or fake (or the seller is clueless).

Sure they're depreciating but not that badly.

[sarthek]

It sure as hell better be a scam - I bought my 05 plate VXR with 40k on the clock for just over £18k about three weeks ago. As hard as I tried I couldn't get anyone else to play ball and drop a VXR below £20k.

[After_Shock]

Definately a typo on that one, its priced well below the trade value for that age.

Monaro's have finally appeared in the guides after 3 years of being out! The newer 6.0 VXR's are dropping about £700 a month I think from memory.

[PA07 BAT]

After_Shock said:

Definately a typo on that one, its priced well below the trade value for that age.

Monaro's have finally appeared in the guides after 3 years of being out! The newer 6.0 VXR's are dropping about £700 a month I think from memory.

dropping about £700 a month I hope not!

[anonymous-user]

To be fair a 6.0 litre Vauxhall was never going to hold its value as there is sod all demand and most people want to drive 2.0 diesel dull-mobiles. I spent the weekend in my brother's 2.7D Audi A6 and while it was very well made, comfortable, spacious and sipped fuel, it left me completely cold. 10 minutes in the Monaro makes me grin like a fool and everyone seems to love it.

I feel sorry for the poor sods who bought the VXR/VXR8 brand new as they've lost a small fortune.

[stigmundfreud]

wormus said:

To be fair a 6.0 litre Vauxhall was never going to hold its value as there is sod all demand and most people want to drive 2.0 diesel dull-mobiles. I spent the weekend in my brother's 2.7D Audi A6 and while it was very well made, comfortable, spacious and sipped fuel, it left me completely cold. 10 minutes in the Monaro makes me grin like a fool and everyone seems to love it.

I feel sorry for the poor sods who bought the VXR/VXR8 brand new as they've lost a small fortune.

Drove the ro for the first time in weeks yesterday - the disel I use daily is so frugal, comfy, spec'd its hard to justify driving the ro when it costs almost 15 quid in fuel for the round trip compared to 5p in the diesel. However at the weekend I heard a ro on the road and it made me take her out for a spin! Love the car

Something I have found though. My previous run around was a smart car = no clutch. The one before that was a Discovery = heavy clutch, the car before that was a 350z = heavy clutch. So I had been used to the ro as it felt normal. Current run around is an xtype = a clutch that engages if a fly farts somewhere in the car. This has meant that the ro was a shock and a half! Jesus the thing feels like it weighs half the moon just pressing it in now!

Back on to topic, any big engined vauxhall badged car was never going to not depreciate. Still 4 grand in 16 months ownership aint bad.

[phillg]

wormus said:

To be fair a 6.0 litre Vauxhall was never going to hold its value as there is sod all demand and most people want to drive 2.0 diesel dull-mobiles. I spent the weekend in my brother's 2.7D Audi A6 and while it was very well made, comfortable, spacious and sipped fuel, it left me completely cold. 10 minutes in the Monaro makes me grin like a fool and everyone seems to love it.

I feel sorry for the poor sods who bought the VXR/VXR8 brand new as they've lost a small fortune.

No need to feel sorry for us,I bought my 04 vxr new,and changed to vxr8 after 3 years.I see it as getting the enjoyment now,and not having to wait for prices to come down.Not to say I didn't wish depreciation was kinder,but that's life.

[carubo360]

If you see the car as a method for getting from a-b then you suffer depreciation, if you see it as an enjoyable part of life you are then paying for a "luxury purchase" as you would a holiday or hobby.
Ford Mundano = Depreciation
Monaro = luxury purchase (and in my opinion worth every penny!)
Still my brother boought his 6.0VXR new for £27k 18mths ago so its not too bad...?

[zym]

phillg said:

wormus said:

To be fair a 6.0 litre Vauxhall was never going to hold its value as there is sod all demand and most people want to drive 2.0 diesel dull-mobiles. I spent the weekend in my brother's 2.7D Audi A6 and while it was very well made, comfortable, spacious and sipped fuel, it left me completely cold. 10 minutes in the Monaro makes me grin like a fool and everyone seems to love it.

I feel sorry for the poor sods who bought the VXR/VXR8 brand new as they've lost a small fortune.

No need to feel sorry for us,I bought my 04 vxr new,and changed to vxr8 after 3 years.I see it as getting the enjoyment now,and not having to wait for prices to come down.Not to say I didn't wish depreciation was kinder,but that's life.

As I now own phillg's car, I should probably thank him for taking the depreciation hit! In all seriousness though, I too bought the car as a "keeper", something that stretched me a bit to buy, to enjoy every day. I'm not going to sell it for years to come, so depreciaton was never a deciding purchasing factor for me. In fact even in 3 years time I can't see a replacement for it - I'm not sold on the VXR8 yet.

[carubo360]

imo the new Chevy Camaro will be the spiritual successor to the Monaro. I still think GM should have brought the Monaro over here as a Chevy in the first place - it has a Chevy engine in it afterall...

[crisisjez]

saving for mine now .

Going to keep the `ro`

Just need a bigger garage.

[After_Shock]

PA07 BAT said:

After_Shock said:

Definately a typo on that one, its priced well below the trade value for that age.

Monaro's have finally appeared in the guides after 3 years of being out! The newer 6.0 VXR's are dropping about £700 a month I think from memory.

dropping about £700 a month I hope not!

Cars like these will have hugely varying depreciation rates month on month, this month the same car only dropped £100 where the older 04 CV8's dropped £800 odd I think, probably to do with their being a few around used. VXR8's only dropped £250 considering their a new model and not many around yet.