@cafcnick1992 'What's faster? The 0-60 time or the depreciation in value?' You had me worried there for a minute, so I checked online. You can get a used Inster (Long Range version) for around £21,400, which is only £600 less than I paid for a new one.
You can buy pre registered one's (long range) for about £18.5k (sub 100 miles) the last two 25 plates that went through auction (granted one wasn't the long range) went for under £13k. webuyanycar will effectively give you the trade CAP value, yours with 1000 miles books at about £14.2k. So It's almost done 35% in about 2 months if you paid £22k. And I suspect the £22k was heavily discounted (Hyundai are giving about 20% off straight away, some dealers will go further).
In 12 months the trade value will be sub £10k I'm afraid. It will slow but by three years I'd be amazed if it didn't book at sub £6k.
The auctions are literally full of secondhand electric cars that are simply not shifting even when heavily discounted. My advice to anyone would be to effectively lease one on a good deal if you want to go electric, do not buy a new electric car outright. There's basically very little market currently for electric cars once they are 2-3 years old.
Even worse are Hydrogen cars, fast way to lose 90% in a year!
PS, picked up the Mrs new car last Friday, a dirty petrol mild hybrid :-) BMW 1M Sport, at the weekend on a run did 59.4 to the gallon, I've never had a car do that!
I have a 2004 Fiat Panda 1.1 which I use to commute to and from work. Paid £500 for it, uses £50 of fuel a month and i literally don't care if someone drives into it. Car ownership at its best!
I have a Panda as well. Ideal car in London - cheap to run and easy to park. No idea why anyone wants a big car in London...
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