![]() Whereas previous versions are truly tarnished by 'fleet/rental stigma', the latest benefits from sharper pricing and the new hybrid version. At the other end of the zone? The Holden Commodore ZB can't catch a break.Īmong crossovers and SUVs, thumbs up for Mazda's CX-5 and the Toyota RAV4. Yet here's the hybrid edition of the Toyota Camry (a vehicle that couldn't even be considered truly 'large' a few years ago), apparently enjoying a secret 'other life' away from the taxi ranks, resonating with private buyers chasing reliability and thrifty. The large car sector has shrunk so much to be barely visible. The black part represents how much money you lose the minute you drive the Peugeot 308 off the yard. Whereas even though it's a high-flier for technology, safety and driving verve, the Peugeot 308 can't hold altitude. "It's good-looking and does everything well". For all that, the Mazda3 hatchback stands out as a safe choice – "you can never get enough of them" for resale, our advisor said. The compact, medium and large car segments are progressively being pummelled by the consumer swing to sports utilities and crossovers. What you pay upfront that always determines how much you'll get down the line. In part, because Holden keeps subjecting it to discounting. ![]() The Holden Spark, though one of the cheapest new buys on the market, doesn't maintain such strong residuals. Yet you can't expect all tots to drive so happy. Despite there being heaps of them around, including a lot of used imports, NZ-new examples don't suffer undue depreciation. But only to a point.Įverything suggests the Suzuki Swift is a resale champ. ![]() The theory about the less you spend, the less you lose, does hold. Utes always have solid resale, but a top-spec Ranger is a safe bet.Įven so, different vehicle types express different behaviours. It's fair to say anything in strong demand and less prone to discounting when new, with a desirable badge and good reputation for quality, reliability and safety is more resistant to depreciation than anything less aspirational, with an actual or imagined blemished reputation that is regularly subject to sweet deals. For some reason, the parameters we figured to be important (like, only considering 2019 NZ-new product and providing residuals based on RRPs) were not adhered to and, accordingly, the results that came back simply didn't compute.įortunately, contacts working the industry frontline provided more coherent direction, though did not get us to the point where a top 10 of delights and duffers could be compiled with confidence. Nonetheless, we wondered if they could help on this quest. Amazing as a universally-accessed buying and selling tool, yet because of that patently operating to wholly different parameters. It's a Toyota, it's an SUV and now it's also a hybrid - the RAV4 doesn't do much wrong when it comes to depreciation. ![]()
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