car prices ??????????????

little big planet 2

is it just me or is the price of small second hand cars going up and big cars coming down to the point where you car buy an 00-03 toyota avensis for less than a corolla of the same age and the same thing with volkwagons btw i dont know if this is the right place to put this if not please move it

CianRyan

The general motors forum is probably more suitable.
I haven't noticed this myself but it could be true.

Graham_B18C

Thread movers to Motors

MugMugs

little big planet 2 wrote: »

is it just me or is the price of small second hand cars going up and big cars coming down to the point where you car buy an 00-03 toyota avensis for less than a corolla of the same age and the same thing with volkwagons btw i dont know if this is the right place to put this if not please move it

Any examples ?

little big planet 2

http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/2802884
http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/2779520
the avensis here is actually more modern and its tested

EPM

Ones a diesel van, the others a petrol saloon. Different markets completely.

As cars get older the cheaper to run models are more desirable.

colm_mcm

Ones an old model avensis, ones an old model corolla, they're both old. Old = cheap.




Lols @ the avensis being described as an SR aura model
SR stands for having sunroof as opposed to aircon

little big planet 2

http://cars.donedeal.ie/donedeal/classifieds/viewFullPhoto.jsp?cid=7753326&ad=2485107
http://cars.donedeal.ie/donedeal/classifieds/viewFullPhoto.jsp?cid=9115652&ad=2814097 there no arguing the price difference here as diesels are now cheaper to run can anybody find and answer for the big price gap

colm_mcm

The passat only has 3 wheels :-)

Anan1

little big planet 2 wrote: »

http://cars.donedeal.ie/donedeal/classifieds/viewFullPhoto.jsp?cid=7753326&ad=2485107
http://cars.donedeal.ie/donedeal/classifieds/viewFullPhoto.jsp?cid=9115652&ad=2814097 there no arguing the price difference here as diesels are now cheaper to run can anybody find and answer for the big price gap

That Passat's was launched in 1997, a year before the previous generation of Golf to the one in your link.

little big planet 2

has it i missed that ok i give up my arguement

little big planet 2

no it doesn't its just dark

colm_mcm

That was a joke, hense the smiley face

little big planet 2

Anan1 wrote: »

That Passat's was launched in 1997, a year before the previous generation of Golf to the one in your link.

yeah but its the same year would the generation really make that much difference

colm_mcm

People love golfs. Guy at work has a polo and his dream car is a golf

langdang

colm_mcm wrote: »

People love golfs. Guy at work has a polo and his dream car is a golf

You gotta have dreams man... mmmm golf :pac:

CiniO

I saw this relation as well here when it comes to older cars (8 years +)
Mondeo with 1.8 or 2.0 petrol engine, can be bought actually cheaper than the same year Focus with 1.4 engine.

The same Mazda 3 and Mazda 6 seem to be priced very similar when you compare the same year.
Astra and Vectra the same.

When people are buying older car for little money, they usually prefer to take something cheaper to insure, tax and cheaper to run - that's why demand for older Focus would be bigger than Mondeo.

However it's like that in Ireland.
F.e in Poland where there isn't any road-tax, difference in insurance price between 1.4. and 2.0 engine would be probably about €50 per annum, and you can convert any bigger engined car to LPG to run it cheaply, bigger, stronger and better equipped cars keep their value, so in there Mondeo would be way more expesive than Focus.