Expert advice: how to buy a car correctly, so that later it is more expensive to sell it

There is only one thing that all cars make quickly: they lose value. But here there are leaders and outsiders, as well as some know-how that help maintain the cost of the machine during its resale. Money experts conducted a study and revealed these features, and also compiled a rating of cars that lose less than others in price during resale.

True, this rating is based on the analysis of the American market, but some of its representatives are sold in Russia. So, the leaders were Mitsubishi Lancer Evo and BMW 5 Series, a stylish Mini Cooper hatchback, as well as the VOLVO XC 90 SUV. According to the magazine, in the United States, the cost of these cars decreases approximately half, while the average car loses 65% of the cost during this time.

Among the general factors that affect the drop in prices, experts identified the prestige of the model, its distribution, the amount of maintenance costs, as well as moral “novelty” design. Of course, first of all, the ratio of demand and supply matters. “Popular and desired machines, the offer of which is limited, lose their price more slowly than others,” said Celley Book Charlie Vogelheim, the director of the Keley Book.

So, in the USA it is most rapidly losing the price of Jaguar X-Type.

The motorist has a lot of chances to sharply reduce the price of the car at resale. The most obvious method is an individual “tuning”, which can take more than one thousand dollars. Prices for non -standard cars are much lower.

Also significantly lose in the price of cars of unusual colors (for example, purple) and non -standard sets. Kelle Blue Book experts believe that a variety of “bells and whistles” like a leather cabin, cruise control or a glass roof pay for themselves when the car is resale. “They will not add special value to the car, but the car without them will have to sell much cheaper,” Vogelheim is sure. It is most convenient to sell white, black and silver cars, and it is the most difficult to get rid of orange, purple and yellow.

Vogelheim recommends special attention to the wheels - beautiful discs with good rubber are fully paid for, he claims.