All understood mate, but tbh, the vat element doesn't count for much......a bigger issue is rarity, desirability and image.
A good example is the Porsche Macan - £50k plus new, but for the first year they were trading at £50k.....seriously! My next door neighbour ran one for 18 months from brand new and lost £300 on it, so VAT wasn't in that equation!
Agreed that the discount on the Up Beats skews the logic....it was actually £10500 rrp I think, but even then, getting £7500 for it was less of a hit than Im being offered now!
I would have thought the GTI was a rarer, more desirable car than the Beats, but maybe not!!!
Im certain this is all down to the total lack of GTIs in the used market. As you know, Glass's / CAP set their prices by monitoring auctions/historcal sales, combined with demand, rarity, image, etc,etc......it looks like the GTI is being traded as a regular 1.0 TSI to me and as I said before, Im pretty certain that it will still be worth around £9000 as a trade in a year from now......the market just doesn't know the car at the moment......if there are no more GTIs.......some would disagree.....then the values will do well in the private sales market, but Im still not sure if CAP/Glasses will cotton on!