Macan EV Prices Falling - Depreciation

[W1NGE]

PS: Had a look through the Autotrader list of Macans and they are all 22” wheels. I can’t speak for anybody else but there isn’t a city or town in the UK with good enough roads to allow me to run low profile tyres like that. We have a Mini with those and we forever run through potholes and have to get new tyres at least once a year as a result of damage from potholes.
Also, if you spend this sort of money on a car you’ll want your own personal spec and not one picked by a dealer, in my view.

Better source is the main Porsche website - https://finder.porsche.com/gb/en-GB...category=macan-turbo-electric&order=price_asc - they are most certainly not all 22".

Many are demonstators, a few new and the rest pre-reg models. A bargain can be had and the model year won't change until this summer in case anyone is concerned about that.

Cheapest base Macan starts at £68,500 (£73,158 list price on configurator) and the most expensive (Macan Turbo) - £118,000 (£118,765 list price on the configurator), 10 miles on the clock.

 

[SimonEV]

I bought a Macan 4S in December 2024 in the UK. I contacted three Porsche Dealers and they had "limited stock" of the model I wanted. In each case the base price for a new and unregistered vehicle was the price they ordered it at and not the Configurator price which increased by £1,500. Porsche have a high finance rate of 10.9% (other rates are available) so you might also pay an additional £15,000 in interest to buy a car that costs much more than a Lexus RZ 450e.

The Lexus RZ 450e was also available from "limited stock" at UK Lexus Dealers. It's perhaps not a fair comparison with the Macan 4S but never the less, worth looking into.

In contrast, Lexus have a finance rate of zero percent and a £4,500 contribution if you "take" PCP finance on the Lexus RZ 450e. That also means one month deposit and 40/34/22 monthly payments before handing the car back to Lexus.

You can't buy the Lexus for cash and also get the deposit contribution of £4,500. However, you can end the PCP agreement and buy the car outright at any time, paying off the interest that is zero, the future value is low enough that you also have the option to buy the car at the end or just walk away. If the actual value of the car was higher then you could presumably use the equity as a contribution to your next car.

Even if somebody could buy the new Lexus outright, there doesn't seem to be an incentive to do. So, perhaps when a Lexus (or other manufacturer) is "bought" using PCP, the ownership stays with a company, at least until the finance is settled and very few new car purchases are listed as private purchases?