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Originally Posted by suaveflooder
Fair enough. I can get that. It's been almost two years (mid 2012) since release, and unfortunately, this car didn't get the best reliability rating. I haven't had any issues yet (knock on wood)
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Exactly. Perhaps those initial reliability concerns are playing a role in KBB's values. But maybe after a few years pass and the issue is long gone and the car proves to be otherwise reliable, then you might see some stronger values later on down the road, or the market value will improve.
Or if the car gets killed off or if its successor ends up falling short, then its market value will climb, regardless of whether or not KBB reflects that too. For example, when the Evo X GSR first came out, I was at the dealership looking at the numbers... and I know everyone there, from the managers to the GSM to the GM. My Evo IX SE had maybe 15k miles, and they were offering me "maybe $23k." Fast forward to 2014. I took my car in for an oil change (as they were included with my purchase for life) back in January, and that same GSM was still asking me if I was going to sell it to them, since they want bone stock Evo VIIIs and IXs. And even with the 68k miles that it had at the time, he said he could easily sell it for $28-29k given today's market since there is a demand for them in this condition, and they'd likely offer probably at least $24k for it... even more than what they offered me six years ago despite my car now having over four times as many miles as that time.
So if the next 86 ends up sucking... whether there are new regulations in place that make the car weigh well over 3,000 lb while the engine doesn't have any more grunt, then you might see the current generation's values hold up quite well.