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Originally Posted by zc06_kisstherain
I dont care as long as it does not become like a riced out civic scene
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It already has and will continue. This car was praised by the entire car community as the savior of cheap rear wheel drive sports car fun. Many people got caught up in the excitement that the car journalists wrote about, and then was further lost in the wait list to get one. Kind of a mob mentality.
Then they got one and the honeymoon period wore off. They realized they can get much faster cars for the same price. They can get much better handling cars for the same price. They can get this performance and be much more practical or easier to live with daily. After that there was a rush to get rid of the car so used prices plummeted. Now the people who don't have as easy access or don't want to spend as much on their car comes in. This is where you get the hack job suspension mods, the poorly done DIY exhaust, etc. I'm not saying cheap mods can't be done well, because there are a lot of skilled people that could do much better with $500 than I can do with $2000. I'm just saying that if you took the average person and gave them less $ to complete the same type of modifications as a person with more $$$, the end result will typically show.
So to answer your question, will your unmolested car be worth anything, that is impossible to say. Supras and RX-7 were a dime a dozen before fast and furious. Even the Eclipse had a short bump in value for some time. 30 years ago you wanted a Jafuar E-Type, fork up $15k. Now you want a Jaguar E-Type? $500k. There must be some random, out of nowhere, social spotlight that drives that mob mentality and forces everyone to view your car as the one everyone wants. I say drive it however makes you happiest. If in 30 years its worth nothing, at least you got 30 years of amazing driving fun.