Personally, I think this car is priced ok at £72k. Now I don't have an RS6 but I am in the process of buying one and have been looking for months for the right car/spec. I have however bought way too many ridiculously priced flying machines over the years.batmanreturns wrote: ↑Mon Nov 12, 2018 9:31 amI'm looking at buying an RS6, not had one for a few years and now need to get one due to family commitments which means the M5 is just not practical!
The one i'm looking at is a 2016 (June) car, it was very highly spec'd from new with a retail price of £116k ie dull carbon pack, performance edition, dynamic pack plus with ceramics, alcantara headlining pano roof, exclusive paint, night vision etc etc. The owner then spent 5k on PPF for the entire car and another 8k on a Akrapovic exhaust. The issue is that it's a high spec but it's done big miles ie 33k in 2 years which makes it hard to price.
It's for sale at 71,995 which i think he's having a laugh at. The issue is that he's not prepared to budge much and in my mind thats a 60k car (tops!) but i wanted to see if i'm wrong and he's right or if you guys think it's perhaps worth less than my estimate? Webuynaycar offer 49k for it, most Audi dealers seem to suggest a retail price between 55-60k.
Help on pricing appreciated!
thanks
I spotted the car in question as soon as it came up for sale and seriously considered buying it myself but I tend to buy cars around a year old and with less than 10k miles in general so decided to let it pass. It's definitely Mr JWW's car so you know it has been looked after. No one spends £5k on PPF (and proper PPF, professionally fitted) and doesn't baby their car. It's the best spec'd RS6 PE for sale at the moment for sure.
Let me put it another way, we can all be guilty of wanting £gazillions when we are selling a car but only want to pay £2.50 when we are buying - and those maths simply don't add up. The car you are looking at cost £117k new (rounded up) and ignoring the PPF and exhaust (even though the exhaust definitely does add value to the car as you can simply take it off and sell it if you want to), let's do some sums.
I don't know when it was first registered but for simple maths lets assume it was mid-2016, so let's assume the car is 30 months old. The figures read as follows:
Cost - £117k
Sale price after 30 months - £72k
Depreciation - £45k
Depreciation % - 38%
Depreciation per month - £1,500
Pretty sobering reading. And if people really do believe that at £72k it is over priced then these numbers tumble further. And if they tumble further then you have all bought dogs and should dump your RS6 asap (selling for £2.50 of course) and buy a Land Rover Defender (as one of the very few readily available cars / tanks that are holding / appreciating in value). And if you feel the numbers only read this way because Mr JWW got carried away on the options and should never have ticked so many boxes then fair enough, but then if everyone thought that way there would never be great-spec cars on the second hand market for you to try to buy for £2.50 - so that circle never squares (if you get my drift). We should all want good spec cars to be worth a bit more. It's in everyone's interest really.
Just my thoughts. Don't hate me.