« Reply #74 on: 09 March 2016, 14:39 »
Agree also in some respect, but the gap between the 2x has always been relatively small, what with the PP version of the GTi.
I have considered ordering an R too, at end of last year with the current discounts via brokers and loyalty bonus, but so many around now, I think I have seen about 3x 16 plates this week alone! That has got to be bad come resale time, considering mine will be cash purchase?
Dave
An R is just a series production model and not a hallowed special engineering project but whatever way you look at it, it sits at the top of the current Golf tree so will always be worth more money than other models in the range until they reach banger age.
Maybe the CS will have a bit of a halo in some circles and will hold its value better than an R? Who knows but I don't think it'll be with a huge amount more than other Golfs. I'd be happy to be proved wrong!
Look back at the mk5 GTI and they were everywhere, same with a mk2. Did those popular models suffer bad depreciation? Quite the reverse in their heyday and I think the R is having a bit of a heyday. It's only the fact that there's still lots of cheap leasers about driving the perceived value down, but the real reason for its popularity is that it has become an affordable 300 bhp 4wd Q-car with the classlessness of the Golf moniker. So there will be a good market for used ones amongst the boy and girl racer brigade for a few years to come once the leasegate and dieselgate thing has passed into history.
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