Maybach 62 S news - Lose £350 a day... - 2009

With all the spare cash floating merrily round the economy at the moment, we’re sure it’s a question you’ve asked yourself: what’s the quickest way to lose all my money on a car?

Short of, y’know, actually setting fire to it. Or lending it to Cristiano Ronaldo. Well, we’ve got the answer.

Buy a Maybach 62S.

Invest in one of the dictator-spec luxury saloons and it’ll shed – ready for this? - £350 per day during the first year. According to research by Parker’s, the £345,800 62S loses a whopping £216,600 in its first 12 months, leaving its value at just £129,200 – or just over 60 per cent of its original price.

£350 a day! How brutal is that? Wander sleepily down to your heated underground garage in the morning, click the Maybach’s fob and wham! £350 down the drain. Every day. Ouch.

Maybe it’s no less than you’d expect from something as absurd and ostentatious as the 62S. The bad news is that even the more sensible limos are leaking money just as precipitously – worse, in fact, in percentage terms. The Merc S600, for example, loses 47 per cent of its value in the first year, while the BMW 7-Series is worth just 49 per cent of its original list price.

Want to avoid the depreciation deluge? Don’t buy a car. Or, if you have to, go for a Rolls Royce Phantom Saloon, which loses a mere £71,550 of its value in the first year – or just 24 per cent of its £298,900 list price. Top value, that is.

Who said we don’t do sensible consumer advice?

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thecalypsoking commented on this article

at 09:08 am on 07 February 2009

Wouldn't 350 a day amount to around 128,000 in the first year.

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duckedtapedemon commented on this article

at 08:13 pm on 08 February 2009

Actually, the S600 looses more on a percentage rate, right? So buy a couple of those, and you can show up as a CONVOY. and loose more money.

dantheman commented on this article

at 10:33 pm on 08 February 2009

you must be dam stupid to get one of these i would not wipe my ass in it it look s like a pit bull chewing a wasp ps could see hampster in one sorry he cant see over the steering wheel danny from bristol ps clarkson you old git when your gone to that golden car in the sky have rest in speed on your stone your driving is mint you should be as good as stig by now let me come up to show you