This week's EV bargain that I'm not buying V2

Your a merc dealer. You need to sell x amount of cars to retain your volume discounts. Your going to miss the deadline, it's crunch time.

You buy and register a bunch of cars to meet that number. They sit on the lot, no interest. Now you have a loan or lots of capital tied up in these cars, you need them gone.

If you sell those cars on your lot, at or near cost price or even taking a hit on them, you might piss off your existing customers who paid normal retail for their cars. And they might be less inclined to buy from you or expect a better price in the future. A lot of car brands like mercs rely on repeat customers, it's probably a large part of the decision here.

So you send them to a auction. They are not linked directly back to you, so no pissed off customers. And to be honest, auction prices here are a bit nuts. They might even make more from people who think they are getting a good price then selling them discount on the lot.

Also, those electric mercs are depreciating like a stone. It's bad enough to have fears over extremely large repair bills for things like battery packs, but those Mercedes electric repair costs are allegedly eye watering.

Are the Merc warranty repairs in Ireland capped to the market value of the car like in some European countries? Seen as the list price of packs can be eye watering that may affect the repairs should a pack need to be replaced.

Most likely the manufacturer would buy back the car in such a circumstance. Toyota did it many years ago with KP60 Starlets that had an issue with the rear axle. Many ended up living a second life on Bere Island until the tin worm got them which didn’t take long.

What sort of money will the mercs go for €50/60k?? Not a very desirable motor.

85 to 95k, few 2025's around 65k, it seems like the dealers are trying to offload them. Just general prices without really looking at the spec.

They seem to loose about 20k a year in depreciation. Seems like some 2023's could go off the lot for 40k. Although with new cars going for 65, why bother.

Not sure if this is normal depreciation for these types of cars. Seems harsh.

List price is over €100k and the cheapest 2025 on DoneDeal is €80k.. You are getting mixed up with the saloon version which is cheaper

Thanks for sharing, but obviously not very reliable info. Is it too much to ask for these rules to be made public? Not a rant at you obviously!

Gumbo, only clarified now not last week.

Maybe it depends on the contents of the brown envelope. I had hoped Ireland had left these banana republic antics behind half a generation ago…