A year to wait

Witzend Is it really no cheaper to get a newish 2nd hand?

It is in many cases more expensive to buy a newish 2nd hand car than a new one in Australia (where nanna8 is) The wait for new cars has blown out in the last couple of years.

I was lucky, I bought my new car 2 years ago and only had to wait 3 weeks for delivery. Hubby did even better as he bought a demonstration model and picked it up the next day.

My son bought a new Jeep in 2018 and it is now worth about $20k more than he paid for it. Simply because of lack of supply.

Is it really no cheaper to get a newish 2nd hand? My current car was 2 years old, very low mileage, quite a bit cheaper than new. That was 3 years ago though.
But I do gather that 2nd hand are more expensive here than they used to be.

My old car was 21!! And still going strong, but although still fine with local trips, I’d become nervous about it dying on me during the 60 mile drive to a dd - 3 motorways, inc. an invariably very busy 6 lane stretch of the M25.

We spent ages chosing a make and model for our new car. When we went to order it we were told that the model we had chosen suddenly no longer offered the extras we particularly wanted. That was blamed on the lack of silicone chips due to the pandemic.