« Reply #12 on: 14 March 2019, 19:38 »
Is that because the Seats were comparatively cheap and a high % loss of a relatively low purchase price (like on an Ibiza) is still low on a £ basis?
For Leon vs Golf, every time I looked, Leon never made sense financially because the Cupra had the depreciation curve of a Ford Focus. The interior plastics in places you'd notice always looked and felt cheap. Doesn't help that my local Seat dealerships are arses too (Pattinson Seat wanted me to put a deposit down on a Cupra before they'd entertain a test drive about 10 years ago).
Definitely not the case for cheap depreciation here with that very expensive ST.
Would welcome the rollout of official power upgrades though. At £500, it's around the price of an externally sourced remap - no extra money to cover increased chance of warranty issues. That says to me that VAG are confident the engine can handle the extra output with ease.
Doubt they'd do this for manual boxes though, with their chocolate clutches.
It was on a mixture of models over a period of time ranging from a Leon Cupra to Ibiza TDIs.
Percentage based depreciation is something I find inaccurate. It’s based on list price to trade value. The latter fair enough but real world buying doesn’t involve list price unless it’s a particularly sought after car with zero discount.
I base depreciation purely on ££££ lost to myself when I’m calculating cost to change to my next car.
Headline figures are irrelevant, merely what it’s cost me in real terms.
The manual cars have a metal cage rivetted over the ECU to stop direct modification where DSG models have a clipped on plastic cage. That says it all about clutch headroom on manual cars. There is none.
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