Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

Look at ex demos, or pcp/lease cars that have been handed back early. Circa a year old.

The depreciation over two years on something that’s already got something like 10k on it will far less than any amount you will pay on pcp/lease. It will be pretty much indistinguishable from a brand new one, and will still have 2 years of VW warranty on it.

my old scirocco was an 8 month old ex demo dealer car with 4K on the clock, if the odometer didn’t say 4K, I would not have known it wasn’t a new car. It was almost £10k less than list price on a identical new car, and without the rediculous VW wait time.

I’d bet there is a pretty substantial amount of nearly new R’s sitting around doing nothing now (2 years after release), that dealers/lease companies will be pretty keen to move on. It’s a buyers market for sure.