Outside of mileage and condition and in a moment of COVID boredom and as an owner of a 90 TDi I was wondering what affects the second-hand value of different models of Audi A2, if anything?
I keep an eye on prices on Autotrader, in the past diesels have been significantly more valuable than petrols, but in the last year this seems to have reversed with some low mileage petrol models priced between £3,000 and £5,000. I wondered whether this was due to a shortage of supply of petrols or concerns over the introduction of low emission zones? on diesels?
This website https://www.howmanyleft.co.uk/?utf8=✓&q=audi+a2 suggests that there are now fewer petrols on the road proportionally since 2005, with up to a 50% drop compared with diesels with only a 20% drop for some models.
My interpretation of second-hand prices of petrol versus diesel A2s is that in the past they were bought as daily drivers in which case the diesel was significantly more valuable, but now the A2 is seen less as a daily driver and perhaps more as an investment, and so the prices are now more equalised, which favours petrols because of their generally lower mileage?
Does anyone have any comments on this hypothesis? And if you were buying an A2 now as an investment would you buy a petrol or a diesel or would you be ambivalent?
I keep an eye on prices on Autotrader, in the past diesels have been significantly more valuable than petrols, but in the last year this seems to have reversed with some low mileage petrol models priced between £3,000 and £5,000. I wondered whether this was due to a shortage of supply of petrols or concerns over the introduction of low emission zones? on diesels?
This website https://www.howmanyleft.co.uk/?utf8=✓&q=audi+a2 suggests that there are now fewer petrols on the road proportionally since 2005, with up to a 50% drop compared with diesels with only a 20% drop for some models.
My interpretation of second-hand prices of petrol versus diesel A2s is that in the past they were bought as daily drivers in which case the diesel was significantly more valuable, but now the A2 is seen less as a daily driver and perhaps more as an investment, and so the prices are now more equalised, which favours petrols because of their generally lower mileage?
Does anyone have any comments on this hypothesis? And if you were buying an A2 now as an investment would you buy a petrol or a diesel or would you be ambivalent?