A chicken feather behind the overselling feelings: the second-hand Volkswagen R36 fell to 100,000, and the car dealers didn't accept it?

I've been saying that an old car like R36 has no value, and the so-called feelings are also packaged.

First, there is no station wagon culture in the Chinese market, it has always been the case, and the so-called station wagon value is left in the experience of a small wave of user groups, and the vast majority of people appreciate the can.

Second, the value of old cars, especially German cars, collapses very quickly, and the problem of high failure rate and poor stability brings more trouble in the process of use. In the eyes of car dealers, the R36 is a big money-making car, and the R36 prices you can see are very high, but the price of these cars is extremely low when they are acquired.

R36, as a large-displacement travel import version of the Passat, was indeed priced at about 500,000 more than ten years ago, which belongs to the category of luxury cars, but we also need to think calmly that the Passat itself is not a luxury car, because of the special identity of large displacement and imported cars, which has created a higher pricing system.

Essentially, it's not a luxury car, but it sells for the price of a luxury car.

Let's take a look at the reasonably priced 7 Series, A8L, Touareg, X5, these used cars around 2010, whose residual value will not exceed 150,000, and I am talking about the price sold by car dealers.

This kind of old car is a typical high-profit product, and the car dealer carries a dragon slayer knife when he collects it, and he is basically not allowed to bargain when he sells it to you.

No matter what color the R36 around 2010 is, in fact, the normal residual value should not exceed 100,000, I am talking about the price of buying from the car dealer, because the price purchased by the car dealer from the owner will not exceed 80,000, and the failure rate of this car itself is higher, and the cost of later use is higher.

This is the business that car dealers do, they can afford to consume energy, and a car press can afford it for a year, because the purchase price of a car like the R36 is very low, but it is instilled with a lot of sentimental value, and it can be sold at a good price.

I once watched a netizen tell that his R36 was sold to a car dealer for less than 80,000 yuan, and then a week later, the price was listed on the platform for 140,000 yuan.

That is to say, the current R36 still has a high premium space, the main reason is that the so-called "German old cars" are popular, and the number of R36 itself is relatively small, and the cars in excellent condition must be fewer and fewer.

Keep in mind that car dealers rely on this to make money, unpopular old cars make a lot of money, and R36 cars can still have feelings in the Chinese market, and the core reason is that it is linked to the so-called station wagon.

Imported CC of the same age and displacement, the price of second-hand cars is far from R36, in fact, there is no essential difference between the two cars, it is nothing more than a coupe, a trip, and people who play German old cars are all one-person cars, and there is little demand for space.

Buying home is nothing more than modifying, refurbishing, and then driving for a year or two to sell, playing with the feelings packaged by some people, and then when selling the car, I found that the most worthless thing is also this so-called feelings.

Let the old car return to its value, R36 even if it is scarce, but it has reached the category of 15 years old cars, no matter how good the car condition of the R36 will also encounter problems such as rubber aging, pipelines, circuit system failures, etc., you may not care about giving tens of thousands of dollars to the car dealer when you buy a car, but when you repair the car, you will definitely know what is the trouble of the old German car.

Of course, some people say that repairing a car is fun, but from your point of view, is it really a pleasure to repair a car, which is time-consuming and laborious and burns money?

It is not denied that the R36 has a certain playability, but for the used car market, it is more like a tool for harvesting leeks.