Winners and losers for cars holding their value

AS SALES show signs of a post-lockdown bounceback, consumer magazine WhatCar? has charted the best and worst vehicles for keeping their value after three years.

Porsche had five models in the top ten for least depreciation, headed by the best-performing 718 Cayman 4.0 GT4 which kept 72.4 per cent, and including the Taycan (60.9 per cent), pictured.

The top ten also include the Porsche Cayenne E-Hybrid retaining 57.6 per cent of value and the allelectric Tesla Model 3 (58.2 per cent).

Other ‘winners’ are the Land Rover Defender 110 P300 S and the Range Rover Evoque P250 R-Dynamic S, both retaining 59.3 per cent of the original price.

By contrast, many vehicles retained less than a third of their value.

Worst performer was the Audi A8 55 TFSI Quattro Vorsprung retaining just 27.3 per cent of its value — a fall of £77,300 from its original £106,305 list price.

Other poor performers include the Fiat 500 Convertible 1.0 Pop (retaining just 29.2 per cent), Vauxhall Astra 1.5 Turbo D SRi Nav (33.4 per cent), and the BMW 2 Series Convertible M240i Nav auto (33.2 per cent).