This week you go to the progress hall and sell it to the sedan who told you that the 170,000 car that landed a few years ago is now worth only 90,000 naked and about 100,000 in high-format, and that the car is now full and bought the same day. As you can see, the audi a6l fell from 450,000 to 260,000, and it went up to 798。
You feel like you're standing at the scene of a big sale, and you think you're gonna miss the last wave if you don't get in now? But you probably didn't realize that the tens of thousands of dollars you saved on the price of the naked car were just tickets to the deal, and the real cost started after signing。
Three years later, your brakes went off. Outside
Imagine, one weekend after three years, your undercarriage went off, opened a navigational search for brand maintenance points, and found that a recent official door shop had become a milk and tea shop, or had a new energy brand. This is not to assume that in 2025 nearly 5,000 fuel car distributors were withdrawn from the net and that a large number of traditional authorized stores were either resold or shut down。
The plant that built your car was also disappearing: the hwang po factory in hiroshima was permanently shut down in june 2026, the wuhan factory in east wind honda was shut down in 2027, and the general shenyang plant in taipei was sold to jiley to upgrade the new energy line. The car you bought is still here, but the next security site is shrinking at a visible rate。
The more real problem is that the 10-year-old gas station downstairs of your house may not be available in a few years — the number of gas stations in the country has fallen by 7. 5 per cent from its 2021 height and is expected to fall to 90,000 by 2030. The time cost and the commuting radius of your fuel are growing quietly。
You drive into the city, you find the fuel truck narrow
You get used to driving into town now, but the right to drive is a little tight. The 7-country emission standard is expected to be officially released by the end of 2026, with the first pilot in 2028 in priority areas, and a nationwide roll-out from 2029 to 2030, for the first time incorporating the control of particulates from brakes and tyre wear。
This means that in the next few years you're driving today's six-b car, you're probably watching the new energy car go off the bus lane, and you're out of the “low-emission zone” in the core zone. Parking has also become increasingly unfriendly, with fuel parking charges being 20 to 50 per cent higher than those for new energy vehicles in many urban public parking areas. Every foot you step on is paying for a shrinking use scene。
The day you sold the car, you realized you lost all the money you saved
That's the worst. You spend $200,000 on mainstream fuel cars, three years on second-hand car dealers who would pay between $80 and $100,000, plus up to 15,000 state replacement subsidies, and less than $120,000 on return when you change cars。
If you buy a luxurious brand, the devaluation is even more alarming: an audi a6l that landed at 420,000, with a second-hand market price of around 220,000 three years later, evaporated in half. More extreme is the fact that someone spent $420,000 last week on a car whose terminal price was down by 60,000 this week, that the car is unlicensed and that the second-hand car dealer pays only 330,000, a loss of 50,000 a week. Every penny you save on naked car prices will come out in the used car market。
You might not be able to reach the $15,000 subsidy
You may also be pointing to the $15,000-high-end blood in exchange for new subsidies, but the threshold is higher than you think。
Your old car must have been registered in your name before 31 may 2026, and the break-in is invalid; the new car must have a charge of 2. 0 litres or less; the identity of all instruments must be fully consistent, and applications for subsidies must be submitted no later than 31 january 2027, with the expired passages closed directly。
In cities like zinan, you have to sign up for the roller sign, with less than 60% of the pass, and there are few subsidies left. There are far fewer people who actually get it than you think。
Now, you stand in front of that huge price reduction poster, and the sale tells you, "there's no such place in this village." it's true that you're feeling so cheap, you're scared and you're hesitant. Cars are never for sale with a hammer. They are bound by the maintenance radius, the commuting route, the parking bill for the next three years and the residual value of the assets at the time of the final sale。
You don't copy the bottom of this new energy car that's going through 60 percent of the market, it's a one-way ticket that's going off the market。
