2015 C400 Depreciation Rate?
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2015 C400 Depreciation Rate?
My lease for current car ends in 2020 and I’m interested in the C400. What do you project the average price would be for a clean 2015 C400 with decent mileage (not high) be in 2020?
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So I looked at 2013 C-class sport models and they range about 15-17k for a decent one. My assumption is the C400 will be maybe high teens-low 20s? Is this wishful hoping or accurate?
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Unfortunately, I believe that's very wishful thinking. What appears to happen is that when a new basic design (not just a refresh) comes out, the gap between the last year of the old series and the first year of the new is probably 2-3x of the last year vs. the previous year of the old series. For example, if you found a 2013 W204 C Class for $17K, an equivalent 2014 would probably run $19K. From my review of cars.com, about the least you can expect to pay for a 2015 (W205) C400 with <50K miles and no accidents, is probably $26-27K.
Case in point, I bought my CPO C400 with 12.4K miles almost exactly a year ago for $35K - typical CPOs (any mileage) were selling for $37-39K at the time. A year later, you'll still be hard pressed to find a CPO C400 for less than $31-32K (or a CPO C300 for less than $25-26K). I really like my car, BTW, as I wanted to avoid the "boy racer enhancements" between it and the C450, and saved $6-7K to boot. Good luck - hope that's helpful.
Case in point, I bought my CPO C400 with 12.4K miles almost exactly a year ago for $35K - typical CPOs (any mileage) were selling for $37-39K at the time. A year later, you'll still be hard pressed to find a CPO C400 for less than $31-32K (or a CPO C300 for less than $25-26K). I really like my car, BTW, as I wanted to avoid the "boy racer enhancements" between it and the C450, and saved $6-7K to boot. Good luck - hope that's helpful.
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Unfortunately, I believe that's very wishful thinking. What appears to happen is that when a new basic design (not just a refresh) comes out, the gap between the last year of the old series and the first year of the new is probably 2-3x of the last year vs. the previous year of the old series. For example, if you found a 2013 W204 C Class for $17K, an equivalent 2014 would probably run $19K. From my review of cars.com, about the least you can expect to pay for a 2015 (W205) C400 with <50K miles and no accidents, is probably $26-27K.
Case in point, I bought my CPO C400 with 12.4K miles almost exactly a year ago for $35K - typical CPOs (any mileage) were selling for $37-39K at the time. A year later, you'll still be hard pressed to find a CPO C400 for less than $31-32K (or a CPO C300 for less than $25-26K). I really like my car, BTW, as I wanted to avoid the "boy racer enhancements" between it and the C450, and saved $6-7K to boot. Good luck - hope that's helpful.
Case in point, I bought my CPO C400 with 12.4K miles almost exactly a year ago for $35K - typical CPOs (any mileage) were selling for $37-39K at the time. A year later, you'll still be hard pressed to find a CPO C400 for less than $31-32K (or a CPO C300 for less than $25-26K). I really like my car, BTW, as I wanted to avoid the "boy racer enhancements" between it and the C450, and saved $6-7K to boot. Good luck - hope that's helpful.
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Mileage and options dependent, I would wager to say that mid 20's is more reasonable in 2020. You could expect at that point a "low mileage" version would be ~60,000miles. I just purchased mine with 19,000miles for 31k but it has very few dealer options. A fully optioned version with same mileage at this point is around 35-37k.
