I was curious to see how I fared with my R56 Cooper in terms of getting my money back when I traded it in.

It was 28 months old and had covered 24k miles.

I paid ~£15 500 for it and received £10 450 for it as a trade in.

That works out at 67.4% retained value which I think is fantastic.

Even if I had only got the Glasse's Guide price, it would have retained 64% over this time, still pretty impressive I think.