mangocrazy wrote: ↑Sat Sep 21, 2024 1:20 pm
So it had lost nearly two thirds of its original value in about a year? You really do need to be rich to afford depreciation like that. It's insane. I know that's an extreme example on a high-end model, but it illustrates why EVs aren't selling in the volume the govt would like.
The Taycans are a peculiar example, they are actually good cars, but Porsche were struggling to sell them, so they started punting them as part of a deal to people who wanted a GT3 RS, which at the time you could buy for £150k and sell the next day for £250k
IF you could get an allocation.
So they would say to people "Buy three Taycans and we'll give you an allocation for an RS" - this isn't BS, people were filming them in secret doing it.
So the people that did that then dumped the Taycans onto the market cheaply, which damaged an already falling price on the Taycan EV.
On top of that you've got people that were buying them as tax write-offs or company car deals, who also wanted Porsche favours, and then dumping them.
The Taycan I tried was genuinely stupendously good, the tech inside it was incredible and it was as fast and as good handling as any supercar, but the residuals are shocking. You can pick up a £150k Taycan for about £40k as a one year old used car.
Hence why I wanted one, but as I said my dream Porsche was sitting there right behind it and I flipped straight to buying that.
