DB9 buying advice please

[johnny senna]

A mate of mine has been offered a 3 year old DB9 for £70K. It is tungsten silver with black, sat nav, bue tooth etc. It has 19K miles.

I think it is now out of warranty, but has just been serviced.

Is he gambling buying this car on the grounds of:

1) depreciation?
2) running costs?

Many thanks.

Edited by johnny senna on Friday 26th October 12:39

[Fahad_H]

The Aston Martin is my favorite car, I don't have experience in it, but I wouldn't recommend the first year of any model.
My opinion is based on general cars, not on the Aston Martin

[johnny senna]

Thanks. Anyone out there with DB9-specific buying advice please? I would be grateful for any help.

[Double R]

depreciation is horrendous for a simple reason

numbers

5,000 gorgeous DB9s each year are the equivalent of the WHOLE DB7 production in 8 years. Look at the prices of a DB7 to have an idea about depreciation

these DB9s will be 35-40 in another 3 years so if you buy one buy because you love the car and sod the depreciation

personally darker colours on a DB9 are quite good for they show the lines better IMHO

[johnny senna]

I think you are right about the dark colours.
Do you think they will be that cheap in 3 years?? God I hope so, I will swap my GTI for one!!

[Double R]

it is demand and offer

there are going to be more and more DB9s on sale second hand and there is not that many people out there willing to pay AM servicing costs, insurance and maintanence

but basically it will be the sheer number of DB9s to drive the price down

history repeats itself more or less in the same way

as I said check what has happened (and is happening) to the price of DB7s. They are still dropping...

[johnny senna]

Thanks, I agree with all of that. I will pass this on to my mate.

[habitualvoyeur]

[quote=Double R]depreciation is horrendous for a simple reason

numbers

5,000 gorgeous DB9s each year are the equivalent of the WHOLE DB7 production in 8 years. Look at the prices of a DB7 to have an idea about depreciation

these DB9s will be 35-40 in another 3 years so if you buy one buy because you love the car and sod the depreciation

/quote]

the same story is being played out with ferrari 360's
way more 360's than previous models = Prices falling like a stone.
What about the new V8 Vantage there must be even more of them ??

Edited by habitualvoyeur on Thursday 1st November 11:45

[Grant3]

As far as I was aware the entire Aston production is 5-7000 a year, so this includes all models including the AMV8, DB9 etc, but I agree that oversupply is a problem as the UK takes the lions share of production.

[johnny senna]

I wouldn't mind a cheap V8 Vantage one day!!