I know one of the men at a local WBAC buying places and had a chat with him about a valuation for the Korando.
He gave me a couple of tips.
However his mate has a 2022 vogue sitting on his drive . He missed a service with the RR network and has been quoted £15000 for an engine repair.
Zero goodwill forthcoming.
Man at WBAC said. Another one who bought a car on the never never that he could not really afford.
The depreciation on that car must be shocking even before this happened, but now...
My local KIA dealership presumably took a similar very new car as PX, but had real difficulty offloading it onto another daft punter who thought they were 'buying quality' - it was on sale in their second hand lot for many months.
I suspect it was auctioned off - it was never labelled as 'reserved' as other cars are when they are sold, it just 'disappeared', and I wouldn't be surprised if they made a loss on the deal, given they had it up for around £125k or so so and had to drop the price considerably several times.
The daft thing is that a good number of legacy media outlets, including the DT, regularly tout buying older second hand, but formerly ultra-expensive cars to be 'cheap' alternatives to modern-day cars, despite the risk of similar horrendous bills if some components fail.
What they don't mention as well is that whilst 'affordable' ones do look 'cheap', most of them are (as well as been old) not in the greatest of health, and buying one in relatively good condition for its age (rust normally still an issue) will set you back 2-3x as much. An 'everyday' car they are not.
Smart people (real country people, not rich townies who've moved there) buy Japanese if they want a proper off-roader that is reliable. If posers want a big 4x4 off-roader to pose in through the town, buy a BMW - they at least do have some cache in terms of engineering excellence.
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