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Shaun Mackle

Shaun Mackle

Australian car valuation expert and director of Cost A Car (costacar.com.au), heard weekly appraising listeners' cars on 2GB's Nights with John Stanley and The Two Murrays.

Oct 10, 2026

TonyAUDIENCE
10:23
So should I keep them or get rid of them and sell them for a new EV? So that's the question.
10:30
On this auspicious weekend of Bathurst, I think there's a lot of older people who have just turned over in their grave for that question.
10:38
Look, The short answer is we're all going to an electric car, which does give you some great technology and gives you great usability.
10:46
If you need to trade both of your cars to do that, yes, that is the very logical thing.
10:49
I mean, registration now on cars is in some cases sort of $1,000 to $1,400 a year.
10:55
Um, I would probably not be trading those two cars with the dealer.
10:59
I would sort of look to sell them.

16 MINS LATER

RogerAUDIENCE
27:24
They're a reputable dealer and they've fully serviced it and I can't confirm that but But that's about as far as it goes.
55:12
Yeah, yeah.
55:12
Um, look, the short answer is, is we're all going to an electric car, which does give you some great technology and gives you great usability.
55:22
If you need to trade both of your cars to do that, yes, that is the very logical thing.
55:25
I mean, registration now on cars is, in some cases, sort of 1,000 to $1,400 a year.
55:30
Um, I would probably not be trading those two cars with the dealer.
55:35
I would sort of look to sell them.
55:37
I mean, you've got two of them, so you can sell one, and then you can look to transact on the other.

15 MINS LATER

70:26
Actually not a lot of kilometers
8:07
So Peugeot, well, pulling out of Australia, they're going to be moving under the umbrella of another company, so we're not sure.
8:14
So look, depending on which news outlet you read, there's some quite inflammatory kind of descriptions, right? So what was announced today that Inchcape, who are the current importer of Peugeot, are stepping away from being the importer in 2027.
8:29
Stellantis, who's the parent company of Peugeot, Citroen, you know, they're going to take over the importation of the brand, right? So the brand isn't leaving Australia as such.
8:39
There's still going to be warranty and parts and service.
8:42
I think if you're a betting person, you would have to question whether the brand is going to get back to the sort of lofty heights of 7,000, 8,000, 9,000 cars that it had in the early 2000s, 2013.
8:52
I mean, when I came to Australia out of New Zealand in 2010, Persia was doing sort of 7,000 cars, which is quite a big difference to now.
9:01
They're not going to be able to compete with the competition here.
12:41
That kind of movement is going to do less damage to the car than stopping and starting all the

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