The year ladder
Each dot is a model year at typical dealer price. The shaded zone is what you can buy outright; the line marks your ceiling. Rows are sorted by reliability. Click a dot to pick that year.
Cash on top of the Giulia
For your chosen year of each car. Below zero means money back in your pocket.
Real cost over years
Depreciation plus running costs. Lower is cheaper to own, not just to buy.
Size against the Giulia
Side profiles at true scale, every panel drawn to the same scale. The filled shape is the option and the outline is your Giulia (4.64 m long, 1.44 m tall). These are stylised shapes rather than exact outlines. Sorted tallest first; hover a panel for full dimensions.
The options
Pick a year on any card; the charts follow. Front-runner is the current favourite; everything else is ranked on its own numbers.
Side by side
Every number from the charts in one table.
How the numbers work
- Prices are typical UK dealer retail for a tidy, average-mileage car (), estimated from AutoUncle/CarGurus averages. Private sales run ~10% cheaper. Each card links to a live AutoTrader search, so check it before you commit.
- Giulia value: get a real Motorway quote and put it in the slider. Part-ex usually comes in a bit under Motorway, but you can often haggle a dealer discount on the new car, so the gap is adjustable.
- Reliability is an editorial 0–10 score based on owner-survey reputation (What Car?, Which?, HonestJohn) for the specific engine named. It isn't a single official rating.
- Warranty left assumes a mid-year registration, the listed mileage, and your annual miles. Toyota/Lexus Relax assumes you keep servicing at a main dealer.
- Repair risk is modelled: about £30/yr while under warranty, and
(10 − reliability) × £90/yr once out of it. It's a rough way to put a price on reliability, not a quote. - Insurance is a mid-range estimate for each car's group, so your own quote will differ. VED is £195/yr, plus the £425 expensive-car supplement in years 2–6 where the car listed over £40k.
- Depreciation uses a typical 3-year loss for each model at this age. Toyota and Lexus lose the least; Peugeot and Nissan lose the most.
Photo credits
Photos come from Wikimedia Commons under the licences shown, and each picture matches the generation of the year selected. Some are non-UK-spec or left-hand-drive cars.