Is it just me... or are used S3 prices going up....

[madvw]

OK, I've been looking at the trader and other places to see what people are asking for their S3's at the minute. Despite the sheds, it looks to me like a decent facelift with about 50k and a nice spec can pull in anything upto 8k?? A few months ago you would have been lucky to get the book price of £6k for them.

Anyone got any clue what people are actually getting for them, rather than what they're asking?

 

[paul_b]

OK, I've been looking at the trader and other places to see what people are asking for their S3's at the minute. Despite the sheds, it looks to me like a decent facelift with about 50k and a nice spec can pull in anything upto 8k?? A few months ago you would have been lucky to get the book price of £6k for them.

Anyone got any clue what people are actually getting for them, rather than what they're asking?

I have been looking on Autotrader and they do seem to be higher than they were 6 months ago. Even high mileage sheds are too much. I also noted a lot of them are from traders rather than private. It's putting me off a bit as I might just save up a bit more and get a 8P 3.2 quattro.
Could be a summer thing, maybe better prices going into autumn.

 

[voorhees]

I think petrol prices and the road tax hike isn't coming into place yet has something to do with it

 

[madvw]

The main issue I've found is that people just aren't changing their cars - they're hanging on to them for longer.

I've been in the market for a 3.2 sportback for so long, that I've gone off the idea, and now looking for a B7 S4 Cab.

I've been round the dealers, and they all say the same thing - this time last year they had 60+ cars on the forcourt, now they're lucky if they have 30. Those which they do have are either diesel or 1.6 petrols - and most of those are ex courtesy cars from the dealership...