Depreciation
New or Three Years Old: The Five Year Cost Compared
The case for buying used is that the first owner absorbed the 20 per cent the Hagerty data records over three years. The case against is...
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Depreciation
The largest cost of owning a supercar is the one that never appears on an invoice.
Depreciation
When the Depreciation Curve Finally Flattens
The comforting version says a supercar falls for a few years, flattens, and eventually turns back up. Hagerty tested it against 28 limited...
Depreciation
What a Supercar Loses in Its First Three Years
A Hagerty study of modern supercars puts the loss at roughly 6 per cent after one year and 20 per cent after three. Against the average...
Depreciation
Depreciation Against Every Other Cost, Side by Side
Owners budget for servicing, insurance, tyres and fuel because those arrive as invoices. The largest cost never does. Setting the published...
Depreciation
Do Electric Supercars Depreciate Faster
Across more than 950,000 five year old cars, iSeeCars measured electric vehicles losing 57.2 per cent against 41.8 per cent for the market...
Depreciation
Why Limited Editions Sell Above List Price
A limited edition trading above its own list price looks like a market failure. It is the opposite: it is the intended result of a supply...
Depreciation
What Every Thousand Miles Costs You at Resale
Everyone knows mileage costs money at resale. Almost nobody knows the shape of it. Hagerty compared auction results against its own...
Depreciation
Which Options Pay Back at Resale, and Which Never Do
iSeeCars compared 1.2 million three year old cars and found yellow ones down 24.0 per cent against a market average of 31.0 per cent. That...
Depreciation
What a Gap in the Service History Costs at Sale
Search for what a missing service history costs and the answers arrive as confident percentages: 10 to 20, 15 to 25, 20 to 35. Follow them...
Depreciation
Which Supercars Hold Value, and What They Have in Common
Ask which supercars hold their value and the answers come back as a list of models. The list is the wrong output. In the Hagerty data the...