Falchoon I see red Member 5,758 Member For: 22y 4d Location: nowhere in particular Posted 10/04/05 08:45 AM Share Posted 10/04/05 08:45 AM I've noticed that s/h XR6T utes seem to be selling for nearly the same price as sedans. Good news for ute owners, not so good for sedan owners and potential ute buyers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr X Donating Members 998 Member For: 21y 4m 27d Gender: Male Location: Adelaide Hills Posted 10/04/05 09:01 AM Share Posted 10/04/05 09:01 AM Yes and a similar situation with XR8 utes compared to sedans.Very good retained values;good for private owners but for business purposes I suspect that most utes will be depreciated to well below their actual value which is good tax practice during the ownership period but this of course means a capital gain penalty at trade in time..........Ah well swings and roundabouts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wados Member 617 Member For: 20y 2m 4d Gender: Male Location: brisbane Posted 10/04/05 09:54 AM Share Posted 10/04/05 09:54 AM utes have always held there value more than sedans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRDOHC When in doubt ... Accelerate! Member 440 Member For: 21y 3m 13d Location: Melbourne, Hoppers Xing Posted 10/04/05 12:03 PM Share Posted 10/04/05 12:03 PM keep coming down ... I WANT ONE !!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ford Grunt Member 159 Member For: 21y 10m 16d Location: Newcastle Posted 10/04/05 12:14 PM Share Posted 10/04/05 12:14 PM Noticed the same thing when looking for my XR6T ute (which I finally found). A quick search on carsales shows. I reakon anything 2003 is a real bargain at the moment, 2004 plates are still holding strong. You can get you hands on loaded up (with options not bricks ) ute for around 33k sedans around the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YOOT Member 1,201 Member For: 21y 6m 2d Location: Birkdale Posted 10/04/05 11:00 PM Share Posted 10/04/05 11:00 PM Excluding on road costs I only payed $36,500 for my T ute and its worth about $35K today! Although in reality I could only sell it for $33k, but that's only $3K depreciation in 12 months! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra potty trained Lifetime Members 1,938 Member For: 21y 7m 26d Gender: Male Posted 11/04/05 03:06 AM Share Posted 11/04/05 03:06 AM my experience is that the utes (like the sedans) are hard to sell and that the classifieds are filled with dreamerswith the petrol pricing and interest rates nudging up ... they'll be even harder to sellFord will no doubt drop new car prices on these things soon as we head into the third tri-mester of the model .... and that will really kick the crap out of used XR and FPV prices ... nothing surer ... look at the year 2001 in the classifieds ... some of those are painful (and overly hopeful)... lets hope all those cars were bought at a good price in the first place Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XRPhantom Member 173 Member For: 21y 1m 15d Location: NSW Posted 11/04/05 04:00 AM Share Posted 11/04/05 04:00 AM I think it could be to do with the fact so many large corps have staff who get these cars as company vehicles and only have them 6-12mths then the leasing company flogs them off cheap and the staff memder gets a new one. Therefore there are a heap more sedans for sale out there at a cheap price then utes. Most company's that have utes are not big corps and mainly small companies such as plumbers & builders.Could be wrong but it make sense to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harvyk Member 1,070 Member For: 19y 9m 20d Location: The North Cooma End of Canberra... Posted 21/04/05 06:34 AM Share Posted 21/04/05 06:34 AM I think it could be to do with the fact so many large corps have staff who get these cars as company vehicles and only have them 6-12mths then the leasing company flogs them off cheap and the staff memder gets a new one. Therefore there are a heap more sedans for sale out there at a cheap price then utes. Most company's that have utes are not big corps and mainly small companies such as plumbers & builders.Could be wrong but it make sense to me.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>I know of guys in big companies who have gone the ute over the sedan because of FBT breaks (or so they say) with utes and not with sedans... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tab Sucker Moderating Team 32,303 Member For: 20y 7m 26d Gender: Male Location: Brisbane Posted 21/04/05 09:33 AM Share Posted 21/04/05 09:33 AM I think it could be to do with the fact so many large corps have staff who get these cars as company vehicles and only have them 6-12mths then the leasing company flogs them off cheap and the staff memder gets a new one. Therefore there are a heap more sedans for sale out there at a cheap price then utes. Most company's that have utes are not big corps and mainly small companies such as plumbers & builders.Could be wrong but it make sense to me.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>I know of guys in big companies who have gone the ute over the sedan because of FBT breaks (or so they say) with utes and not with sedans...<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Yep – a ute’s primary purpose is not for carrying passengers.Trent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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