Top 10 future collector cars

[thill]

Originally Posted by Mikem53

After modding many cars over the years.. There is much to be said for leaving it stock. As I will do with this one..

I think there are some tasteful mods to be done. The problem for many is knowing when to stop, and also not going too far with the mods you do.

[Tone]

Originally Posted by thill

I think there are some tasteful mods to be done. The problem for many is knowing when to stop, and also not going too far with the mods you do.

I wonder if "official" mods will negatively impact the value of the car in the future. Like, say, the TRD exhaust.

[regal]

The MR-S Spyder (Toyotas last sports car) seems to have amazing resale value especially considering just how impractical it was compared to even a Miata. I thought the FR-S would be limited in sales enough to hold value like the MR-S but they are selling too many of them for that.

[OICU812]

Originally Posted by Tone

I wonder if "official" mods will negatively impact the value of the car in the future. Like, say, the TRD exhaust.

Why would it?....who would keep it plain stock for that many years? The old classic era long gone mod to your heart desire.

[mrlewistan]

imo true collector cars need to stay as close to stock as possible... hence why i kept all my factory parts and all my mods so far are reversible.

also, we have the very first run, first generation, first model. Cant really get more collectable then that when we look back on them like we do on classic muscle cars

[TRD-X]

Originally Posted by Luis_GT

10 series will be worth a pretty penny in the future then...

The 10 Series will be just like the Scion tC Release Series 8.0 just another car.

Toyota/Scion has now made the tC RS 8.0's color and rear TRD spoiler available for the 2014 tC so the unique things about the 10 Series FR-S could be available on the next years model making it not so unique.

[Rampage]

Originally Posted by regal

The MR-S Spyder (Toyotas last sports car) seems to have amazing resale value especially considering just how impractical it was compared to even a Miata. I thought the FR-S would be limited in sales enough to hold value like the MR-S but they are selling too many of them for that.

The resale on the Spyder is not that impressive when you consider that it sold for almost the same amount as the FR-S does now but 13 years ago. The list price of a 2000 MR2 Spyder was over $23K which is over $30K in 2013 dollars. You can buy mint stock Spyders with less than 20K miles on them for around $16K so they certainly have not reached "collector" status. In the five years they were imported into the US only 27,971 were sold here. The FR-S and BRZ have just about equaled that number in its first year of sales in the US.

I would not bank on the FR-S ever becoming a collector car. Japanese collector cars are very rare and very old before they start to escalate in value. Just drive your car and enjoy it for what it is today.

[rxpx2012]

I highly doubt this will become a collectors car and could really care less. I know I bought mine to drive and enjoy which I plan to continue to do.

[FRSupra]

I think for what this car is, it defiantly has collector potential, but being so inexpensive and attainable there will just be too many around. I hope that there will only be only one generation made of the 86/brz. I feel that would be quite fitting, otherwise in a few years it will be like the last gen celica is now; a lot of smashed ones driving around and a few on every second rate dealer lot.

I've always felt like the 86 is to Toyota as the S2000 was to Honda.

[root]

I hope it becomes like the miata. Can go to the junkyard any weekend and find at least one. I DON'T want it to become some rare car impossible to find parts for.
Heck my fx16s are rare but not worth much and something of a pain to find parts for.

[dem00n]

Model S in 40 years? Heh...

But really, the answer is F-type.

[torqdork]

Originally Posted by 4U-GSE

While I love my FR-S to death, I would look at the retail history of the S2000 for guidance on where our cars are heading. 5 years from now we'll probably be looking at 60% of what they were originally worth. Maybe 20 years from now an FR-S in perfect condition will be worth what was originally paid... maybe.

For a true future classic look up prices for a used BMW 1M. Only 740 were sold in the U.S. with sticker prices when new usually 20K-30K above MSRP. You need exclusivity to have a future classic. The Integra Type R is another great example. Very limited production and if you can find one that's unmolested it will cost a good amount. Aren't there about 30,000 FR-S and BRZ in America already after just 1 year?

About 2,500 10 Series FR-S's will be imported, about 1,250 6M/T's that have the best chance of becoming collectibles. I see them as something like the rare '83-'85 Celica GTS Coupes that were recognized as something special in their day when thousands of GT's were imported. Today, clean examples are increasing in value well above MSRP.

[Brzetto]

A Focus ST is not a collector car, just Ford's entry into the non muscle performance category. Even with 50 extra hp it still only manages a one second lead if any lead at all.

[Dazza]

Though I don't doubt they will eventually be collectable, only the best of the best will be worth anything and by then I will be dead or damn near close to it