Depreciation on older cars

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Sun 18 Oct 2009 18:58
Depreciation on older cars - snorkerz
Hi, does anyone know of a site where I can find the historical list prices for cars? Specifically, I'm looking for list of an 02 Astra - highish spec.
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Sun 18 Oct 2009 19:05
Depreciation on older cars - bell boy
more spec needed?
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Sun 18 Oct 2009 19:28
Depreciation on older cars - Bromptonaut
May be wrong but don't Parker's guides give this info?
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Sun 18 Oct 2009 20:45
Depreciation on older cars - tony g
glasses guide has a full list of the original price/cost new of all cars sold. back as far as 1999,
for example in October an astra 5 door 1.6 LS 2002 02 had a list price of £12590,its recommended retail today is £2550 its trade value is £1425 with 70,000 miles.
its possible to buy glasses guide for about £10 a copy from e bay,usually they are a month out of date but are quite accurate.
if you want to know the original list price of a different model let me know and i will try and supply it .regards tony
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Mon 19 Oct 2009 15:43
Depreciation on older cars - snorkerz
for example in October an astra 5 door 1.6 LS 2002 02 had a list
price of £12590 its recommended retail today is £2550 its trade value is £1425 with
70 000 miles.


Thanks Tony - the info you have given me is fine, I'm just looking for ballpark figures for future depreciation so I can judge if 'Gap Insurance' is worth doing. In my case it isn't.

Before I read your comment I was working on 50% loss in 1st 3 years, then £1k pa down to the banger zone - that seems to tie in pretty much with the LS figs you gave.

Obviously Mercedes and Yugo have differing figures!
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