Slighty different what car?

[Somnophore]

Friend has been made redundant and will get a good package as a pay off, he has some paid leave and thinks he should be able to get a job within a few months on similar money with a company car as he has had some offers already. however he will obviously be giving up his company car for now, so will need something for the mean time.

He currently drives a golf gt tdi through work.

What car from 5-10k would lose the least value over say a year, needs to be hatchback or saloon, diesel or petrol, and fairly practical, no MX-5s.

Alway the possibility to become his wifes car once he gets another company car.

Any ideas?

[C2james]

what about a ford mondeo from a few years back, around 2005?

[slomax]

to loose the least amount of money it needs to be something that is rare or desirable. This doesnt leave you much options. Top of my list would be the Focus MK1 RS 3 door in that tasty blue colour they did.

[Jonboy_t]

E46 M3? Not sure if it would tick the low-depreciation box, but good solid cars and surprisingly frugal when driven (not)properly!!

[Jayho]

slomax said:

to loose the least amount of money it needs to be something that is rare or desirable. This doesnt leave you much options. Top of my list would be the Focus MK1 RS 3 door in that tasty blue colour they did.

or something thats already done a bulk of depreciation! :P

But I'm sure the new mini's are one of the cars which depreciate slowly.

[LC2]

Surely this is one of the best reasons for bangernomics.