It's not just big, expensive luxury cars that rattle down in value as soon as they roll over the dealer's curb. Everyday cars do that too.
At home, FDM in particular has had to hear a lot from car owners who are surprised that their cars fall in value furiously fast.
The car owners otherwise drive around in completely ordinary everyday cars. Often electric cars. But it is not just electric cars that are depreciating in value.
This is shown by a review of list prices for new cars and their used car value, carried out by Swedish Vi Bilägare . The cars that lose the most are cars like the Aston Martin DB12 Volante and the BMW XM.
Cars both here at home and in Sweden are very expensive. But already in third place on the list we find a car that most drivers' finances can come close to.
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An Opel Astra with an automatic transmission just hurts the private economy. The Swedes have calculated that the car loses 122,000 Swedish kroner – as much as 80,000 Danish kroner – in value every single year. This is a depreciation of a whopping 320 Danish kroner per short kilometer.
It is not much better in an Opel Grandland with automatic transmission. That car loses only a few hundred kroner less in value than the Astra. It can be exchanged for a depreciation of DKK 318 per short kilometer.
But also cars like the Suzuki Swift Hybrid, Volvo XC40 Recharge, Audi Q4 e-tron and Kia XCeed as a plug-in hybrid are rattling downwards. In the Kia, the owner must expect to say goodbye to an average of 190 Danish kroner per car. kilometer.
For the record, Boosted has carried out a corresponding look at the most common car sales portals in our country. And the picture is not much different from that in Sweden.
The car that the Swedes say loses absolutely the least in value is the Subaru Forester e-Boxer. It costs the owner 30 Danish kroner per kilometers in pure depreciation. A lot of money, preserved. But the DB12 rattles down with a whopping 1,774 Danish kroner per kilometer.
Here at home, 67 Opel Astras were registered between 1 January and 31 August 2024. Unfortunately, there is no Aston Martin DB12 on the list.
Part of the story is that cars lose a lot in value in the first few years, to eventually reach a level where the depreciation from year to year is significantly less.
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