Good buy?

Jade Falcon · Post by **Jade Falcon** » 14 Aug 2006, 16:26

Now this is a bit vague, but when walking to the local Citroen dealers the other day I saw a couple of the cars out on the forecourt which seemed well priced. I couldn't see what year they were as they had 'display' plates on them, but I assume they were fairly new.

First off was a Xsara Picasso, for £5495, which for a vehicle like that seemed quite cheap.

Secondly was one of the larger new Citroens, I'm not sure if its the C5 or C6, again, nearly new, for £3495.

Do the C5's have a large depreciation? This seemed quite cheap for such a car. I hadn't seen the mileage on either vehicle, so for all I know, they could have been well used repmobiles.

SimonM · Post by **SimonM** » 14 Aug 2006, 17:07

Yep, they have HUGE depreciation. I paid £3995 for my 02 C5 2.0i Estate, one owner, 35000 miles FSH. Apparently it was just under £17k new, so it lost £13k in just under 4 years

Great value for money

f00lzz · Post by **f00lzz** » 14 Aug 2006, 17:42

Hmmm! A C6 for £3.500. Save one for me please!!

Jade Falcon · Post by **Jade Falcon** » 14 Aug 2006, 18:16

I'm not totally sure if it was a C5 or a C6 from the angle it was, plus I was more intent on getting some LHM fluid

Even for a C5 it seemed fairly cheap.

_kid_ · Post by **_kid_** » 14 Aug 2006, 19:26

Jade Falcon wrote:I'm not totally sure if it was a C5 or a C6 from the angle it was, plus I was more intent on getting some LHM fluid

Even for a C5 it seemed fairly cheap.

without looking i can assure it was NOT a C6, i doubt even they depreciate that much

Jade Falcon · Post by **Jade Falcon** » 14 Aug 2006, 21:24

Well I'm sorry if I got it wrong, my mind was on other things at the time, but it was a nice looking car. Unfortunately, I wonder if Citroen ever checked out the history of a Mr Clive Sinclair when it was thinking in the name of one of its newer cars.

jeremy · Post by **jeremy** » 14 Aug 2006, 22:23

In fact Citroen are re-cycling one of their names from about 1928.

Isn't the giant American transport plane the Galaxy listed as a C5 as well?

Kowalski · Post by **Kowalski** » 15 Aug 2006, 10:37

Jade Falcon wrote:Well I'm sorry if I got it wrong, my mind was on other things at the time, but it was a nice looking car. Unfortunately, I wonder if Citroen ever checked out the history of a Mr Clive Sinclair when it was thinking in the name of one of its newer cars.

Forget the problem with the C5 name, its the "sea-sick's" that's got the unfortunate name!

weety · Post by **weety** » 15 Aug 2006, 11:59

you want to see the prices of some cheap C5's have a look on here

http://www.eastcoastsalvage.co.uk/default.aspx

some very cheap ones indeed

AX_Man · Post by **AX_Man** » 15 Aug 2006, 13:30

weety wrote:you want to see the prices of some cheap C5's have a look on here

http://www.eastcoastsalvage.co.uk/default.aspx

some very cheap ones indeed

Guess I know where I'm going when my AX dies ...