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(Wed 18 Apr 07) EurotaxGlass's has reported that prestige-brand cars can be worth up to £500 more after a year if they're painted black. The used car valuation experts have benchmark prices for vehicles which are one year old and have 12,000 miles on the clock. In the case of SUVs and large luxury cars, these prices are usually matched if the colour is metallic blue, grey or silver. If it's solid or metallic black, the value tends to be £500 greater. Other colours have a detrimental effect. If the car is metallic green or red it can be worth £1500 less. Solid red (so unpopular that it's hardly ever available as a standard colour on prestige models these days) can cause £1750 worth of harm to the resale value, and choosing white when the car is new might cost you as much as £2500 after 12 months. The story is similar further down the scale. A year-old black compact executive saloon (such as a BMW 3-Series or Mercedes-Benz C-Class) will typically be worth £250 more than a similar model painted in any other colour. White is a problem here too - in most prestige saloons it carries a penalty of around £1500. But there are also exceptions. The Porsche 911 GT3, for example, doesn't seem to suffer at resale time if it happens to be white. For more information from EurotaxGlass's, visit www.glass.co.uk. Previous: New Jeep Wrangler Next: Citroen Revises Xsara Picasso Range |
