35 Vehicles Lose Value Fast

Published on 03/30/2020
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Audi A8

The super luxurious A8 from Audi is a very popular premium sedan with all the richness and grandeur we’ve come to expect from a top-of-its-class motor vehicle. The levels of comfort and safety provided by this stylish car can not easily be outdone, and some say, can barely be matched by other executive cars. The bad news for owners of brand new models is that the value of your beautiful A8 will decline by a painful 36% in just a year and around a further 10% every year after that. Second-hand buyers are in luck though, a 2017 model with low mileage on the clock is selling for $47,000, a huge chunk out of the original price.

Audi A8

Audi A8

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Cadillac XTS

Even though Cadillac put extra effort into the design and rendering of the XTS, it didn’t make quite the bang they were hoping for. Lacking the high quality, fancy features and luxury of the larger models -like the CTS- the XTS is considered to be Cadillac’s “middle child” of a sort. This front-wheel-drive, midsize sedan retails for just under $50k brand new, but it suffers a massive $22,000 decline in value that very first year. Losing 45% of the purchase price is not an easy thing to deal with as an owner of a new model, but as a buyer of a used one, of course, this is fantastic news. Even better is that a 2017 model is going for less than 50% of the original price.

Cadillac XTS

Cadillac XTS

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