The best investment cars
Think cars aren’t a good investment? It all depends on how much you spend and how many are built. Or if it’s a Porsche, writes Damien O’Carroll.
in 2015 and sold for £65,000 (NZ$124,000) is now worth £85,000 (NZ$162,000), appreciating 31 per cent in four years.
If you were faced with the choice of buying a GT4 or a honour belongs to the £110,000 2013 Maserati Quattroporte that plummeted a massive (but let’s be honest, not unexpected) 71 per cent, while the £163,000 (NZ$310,000) Bentley Continental 2015 Honda NSX (-22 per cent), 2014 Rolls-Royce Ghost (-18 per cent), 2012 Ferrari F12 Berlinetta (-17 per cent) and 2018 Aston Martin DB11 Volante (-12 per cent) rounded out the biggest losers list.
It must be noted, however, that while they are the biggest depreciators that debuted at the Geneva show in the past decade, they are all largely ahead of the depreciation curve compared to more run-of-the-mill cars, which usually suffer around 50 per cent depreciation in the first three to five years.
Surprisingly the 2016 Bugatti Chiron dropped 12 per cent from £2.5m down to £2.2m, meaning that French hypercar wasn’t as wise an investment as its Italian and Swedish counterparts.
So far, at least – you do have to take into account how long each of them has been on sale.
‘‘It’s unsurprising that the Lamborghini Veneno, Ferrari LaFerrari and Koenigsegg One:1 have stolen the limelight in terms of current values,’’ said Stephen Halstead, chief operating officer at JBR Capital.
‘‘Only 499 of the Ferrari LaFerrari hybrid hypercars were produced, with buyers back in 2013 having more than doubled their money invested in this incredible vehicle.
‘‘We think the ones to watch from this year’s Geneva Motor Show, will be the Bugatti La Voiture Noire, Pagani Huayra BC Roadster, Pininfarina Battista, Lamborghini Aventador SVJ Roadster and Ferrari F8 Tributo.’’