Having purchase a Shogin LWB 3.2 DID Elegance 10 months ago for £15000, I finally traded it in for £9300. That's an expensive 10 months! The value it was losing (approx £770 per month according to car mags), fuel prices and this government conjuring up new car tax bands (£450 per year ) made it not worth holding on to. Had hoped to keep this for a few years but I gave £3000and the shogun for a VW Golf TDI 140 Sport with all the works. 2006 with 1 owner and just 30,000 miles. Had her two weeks and the onboard fuel computer says I am getting an average of 58.2 mpg. Wow - will get my money back in no time with this little thing.... and it goes like hell for a turbo diesel. Meanwhile the Zed sits in the garage and I reckon she has lost no more than £1000 in the past two years. Not that it would matter if she lost £5000 - she aint for sale!

That rang true.........if you think about the amount people lose on their zeds due to depreciation, its nothing compared to what you lose on a newer vehicle. If anything the zed really has'nt done so bad in the last few years!