Our cars will be worth a lot in just 50 years from now
 

http://bringatrailer.com/listing/1967-toyota-2000-gt/

Remember: Each one of ours which does not buff out, brings the future price up. You can help right now by driving in winter with no snows.

are you sure?

lmao, no.

There were 351 2000GT's ever built and they were priced sky-high, $6,800 in 1967 was nearly double the price of a fully loaded Mustang GT, more expensive than a 911S and in today's dollars is ~$50k. The price is a factor of it's rarity more than anything else.

If an 86 is ever worth 450 million bucks, the 2000GT would be worth $8 billlion+

There's almost 100,000 86's in the U.S. alone, the future values will reflect that it is a relatively common and easily attainable car.

2000GT values may be representative of what future LFA values will be, but nothing else built by Toyota falls into the same category.

There can be only one or at least a few dozen. Any time I see another FR-S, BRZ or 86 now, I will destroy it.
Either that or highly recommend they install a rocket bunny kit on theirs so mine will be worth $8 billion.
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Maybe the Lexus LF-A but not the Twins unfortunately.


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Looking at the current resell values of our cars, it's not looking very good. But personally I did not buy my car for its resell value and I'm sure many of the people here didn't neither.

LOL!

There were approx 9000 Delorians made. DMC-12 had a suggested retail price of $25,000 ($650 more when equipped with an automatic transmission); this is equivalent to approximately $65,181 in 2015. There are 6500 estimated to be still in existence.

This car has 3000 miles and is very minty. $39K buy it now. You would make more by just leaving the 25K in the bank, and not have to pay for storage.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1981-DeLorea...m=232171571854


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my Gatorade bottle will be worth a million bucks

No they wont. They will be worth what ever scrap metal is going for in 2066.

Or...

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In 50 years...non self-driving cars may be illegal...

These are great cars...they are not investments.

Everyone that bought a series 10 or Series 1 or 2.0 etc etc..I hope you bought it because YOU like it. Because when there are 5k "limited editions" they are not limited.

Let me know when horse and carriage is outlawed...

They are in many areas.
And how many are used for more than a novelty?

That's exactly what will happen to self-driven automobiles, novelty, no super highways for the Luddites, but I bet when I die I'll still be able to drive an 86 across this country. Just like you can still ride a bicycle across it or ride a horse across it.

Will it be easy? Probably not, but all this doom and gloom is totally unfounded.

Yep. It may cost a fortune and be a hobby for the rich only but it will probably be doable. I know I won't see a day when you can't that is for sure.

Hang in there Tcoat.

LOL If I last 15 more years I will be amazed. I choose my lifestyle and have come to terms with the inevitable result.

I'm sure you've earned it.

It'll be like ExDriver, only specially certified people will be allowed to drive cars. Actually I often feel the certifications for current liscensing need to be tougher.

I don't buy into the whole "pay for storage" thing. Fact is I'm going to have a sports car in the garage at all times anyway so the amount of extra money I would spend to store an "investment car" is exactly zero. I guess if you're Jay Leno or something, things are different but I look at the appreciated value of a rare car more as an extra perk that comes with my hobby than anything else.

You may not lay out cash but you are still "paying" when you store a car in your garage. You lose the use of the space for anything else which means you are making payments on a garage you only use for one thing.

Someone in my building is trying to rent out a parking space for $175/month. The sad thing is I notice many stalls that are just completely empty for months now.


In some parts of the city it can easily cost over a quarter million dollars to convert a garage into a "laneway" home garnering easily over a $1000 a month in rent alone.


I postulate these trends to causal relationship as to why alpha males nowadays can't explain what the role of an alternator does in a car, can't disassemble a spent vacuum cleaner, and are double fisting their phones while leaving the front entrance of a nightclub while J-walking to the bus stop.

Wow... talk about super powers!

Please tell me what tires, oil, radiator fluid, rubber hoses, rubber belts, batteries, and lubricants never need replacing, especially after 50 years. I'm sure many of us would greatly appreciate the tip.

Not to mention your free mechanic to do a tune up on a 50 year old super car.

All cars need maintenance, the ones worth money usually double or triple the costs of the ones that aren't.

Get out of the bubble the internet has created for you re-affirming your unfounded biases.

A. There are millions who do understand mechanical things.
B. The vast majority of the 'older generation' didn't understand those things at all and had their head up their ass with their radio soap operas browsing department store catalogs for frivolous shit instead of Amazon or whatever was trendy that decade that time forgot because it was just as stupid as caring too much about buzzfeed articles.

I'm wrapping my 86 in Saran-wrap as we speak.

Oh that is the worst thing you can do! Hold all that nice moisture in there and all. At least use the breathable stuff.

Excellent point. The ratio of hands-on people to the rest of the population hasn't changed.

Wrap it in UV resistant stuff and park it in the middle of the desert.

Hard to tell, but you are trying to be funny right?

In case you did NOT know, Toyota only made about 300 of those.

I own a rare collector car very much in the spirit of the FRS of which only 8000 were ever made and 40 years later you can still buy one in top condition for $25-30,000. So, to be "rare" your have to be "Really Rare" before it counts.

If you want to know where the FRS is going to be value-wise in 50 years or so, just look at the Datsun 240Z since it would be the most comparable to the FRS niche.

"Hard to tell, but you are trying to be funny right?" Well, yes. (Possibly my Rochesterian humor, or just me, somewhat dry).


Yea, I would expect by now, the Z would bring more than current bids on this car:

http://bringatrailer.com/listing/1973-datsun-240z-20/

Edit: 12-20-16. Sold Today 1973 Datsun 240Z for $25,500. This car would have cost around $4000. new. With inflation to 2016, that's about $22,261 in today's dollars. So it sold now for a little more than it's new car price.


Though surprised I am, what some Porsches from 60s to 80s are bringing right now...really seemingly big money.

Look, I told you I didn't want to battle. They aren't unfounded.


If you want 20 dollars now, I wont hesitate even though they are hard earned.

And here I was thinking that was all maintenance costs, not storage, which is what I said.


This isn't just a car thing. These clowns can't do things like fix a toilet or operate a lawnmower either. If this isn't more wide spread now, I'd be very surprised.

There has always been and will always be a majority of the population that does not know how or WANT to know how to do everything. The very first records of humans (cave paintings) show people doing very specialized activates with some hunting, some performing ceremonies, some prepping food, etc.
There are currently millions that do indeed do their own car work but the majority do not. Why should they fix their own car, toilet or lawnmower? Are there not professionals for these things? Have there not been mechanics, plumbers and handymen for all of history? It isn't even a matter that people "can't" do it but many just have better things to do. To look down on people because they do things themselves that you do is just foolish. Do you not pay anybody to do anything for you at all? For the past 10 years I have paid people to do things that I used to get paid for and that is just the way it is.

It is a Darwinian thing...There has to be a "Stupid Tax" or else these guys would breed too fast.

Anecdotal evidence is as good as a fart in the wind. Feel free to link any studies and I'll change my mind (hard to do, this stuff wasn't being studied 30+ years ago, not much valid data pointing back that far). So anecdotal vs. anecdotal, I wasn't around 40 years ago, but tcoat and humfrz were, my parents were, things weren't so different.

lol you know 'handyman' used to be a valid profession right? Maybe grandpa could unclog a toilet or clean a carburetor, but odds are his neighbor couldn't and either called someone or paid his neighbor a case of beer to get the lawnmower going or replace the heater coil in the dryer.

The vast majority never had a clue, don't let nostalgia fool you.

The distractions were the same only the medium in how we received them was different. Whole cities would shut down for TV shows or sporting events since you only got one shot to see them when there was no way to record it for later or pull it up on demand. Commuters (and drivers) had their noses buried in newspapers and magazines instead of phones so still did not even acknowledge each other's presence. All in all pretty much the same as now.


When I got out of the Army I worked in a hardware store for a couple of years. It was a very popular one that drew people from all around the city. I bet that less than half were actually doing the work themselves though. Many were buying materials for others to do the task or looking for somebody to do even the simplest thing for them. I more than doubled my income by doing "handyman" type jobs. Some of these were as simple as putting a new flapper in a toilet for $5 or as complex as running all new plumbing or wiring for a project for several hundred. In many of these cases the customer had more than enough skill to do the task but they just didn't want to have to do it for one reason or another. Now I am the guy walking into a store and asking if somebody can do the work just because I don't want to. The others had no clue and had no reason to want to learn since there was people to do it for them. Ability and desire are two totally different things and should not be confused.

You shut your whore mouth!

Well they do! How can I fix my toilet and be here at the same time?

I thought you had a team here. Or are they currently fixing your shitter?

They get two weeks off for Christmas. Something to do with having to build toys.


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