I'm having my parent's old Megane off them to use as a winter car, instead of them trading it in against another 2nd hand car. So can any of you experts give me some idea of the value? I guess bottom book/trade value.
It's a 2001 X reg, 5 door, 1.6 16V, 75K miles, reasonable condition with a few 'pensioner' scuffs, nearly top of the range (in it's day), alloys, a/c, metallic, sunroof etc.
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According to What Car? a 1.6 RT model of that year and mileage is:
Trade: £210
Part Ex: £245
Private Sale: £590
Real world your car is worth as much as the MOT and road tax has left on it.
I was looking at a 56 plate Volvo S60 R model. Only 53k miles on the clock, the main dealer wants £9k for it. As long as the yearly road tax is £490 I think that is a car for a specialist or will be put through the auctions in a month or two and will get a fraction of the asking price.
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>> I was looking at a 56 plate Volvo S60 R model. Only 53k miles on
>> the clock, the main dealer wants £9k for it. As long as the yearly road
>> tax is £490 I think that is a car for a specialist or will be
>> put through the auctions in a month or two and will get a fraction of
>> the asking price.
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Lots of larger engined petrol cars / high emitters are virtually unsellable............you might not like say the Mazda RX8 ( and few do!) but bodywise they look to have lasted - the first models now auction for the £2K+ and might appeal to someone looking for a weekend car .... however the RFL can be about a quarter of the price.........considering a weekend car might do 2-3000 per year the cars - such as the RX8, Subaru Outback, MB E class/S class etc will sit of the forecourt.
Why don't the Govt cut the RFL to a max of say £250 on cars over 7 years as these cars probably have another 7/8 years life rather than heading for the scrappy sooner rather than later.
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They do sort of (£280) on emissions of >225 for cars registered before March 06
www.gov.uk/vehicle-tax-rate-tables
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What derivative is it? e.g. dynamic, RT
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on that age, it doesn't really alter the price.
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>> What derivative is it? e.g. dynamic, RT
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I'm not sure really. I think it was the top model, with almost everything except leather. Most surprising is it all still works. Apart from a set of coils every 18 months, I don't think anything had gone wrong with it.
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>> Lots of larger engined petrol cars / high emitters are virtually unsellable............you might not like
>> say the Mazda RX8 ( and few do!) but bodywise they look to have lasted
>> - the first models now auction for the £2K+ and might appeal to someone looking
>> for a weekend car .... however the RFL can be about a quarter of the
>> price.........considering a weekend car might do 2-3000 per year the cars - such as the
>> RX8, Subaru Outback, MB E class/S class etc will sit of the forecourt.
The RX8 suffers from a double whammy of the unpopular mpg/RFL thing as you mention, and that disaster of a rotary engine, which is arguably the most unreliable and temperamental engine to be fitted to a mass produced car in the last 20 years.
I know it has its fans, but the facts are that you get supercar levels of fuel economy and maintenance / mollycoddling (careful how you switch it off), and the need to constantly top up the oil which it burns at the rate of a litre every 1000 miles or so, in exchange for a piffling 231 bhp. And they still randomly blow up without warning.
Last edited by: DP on Tue 16 Jul 13 at 09:32
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Renault Megane - Anyone know the value - Runfer D'Hills
