Top 10 Collector Cars of Tomorrow
That brand new Audi S5, Lotus Exige S or Corvette Z06 you’re dying to own may seem a little expensive now but one day those very cars could be collector items that you could auction off for a couple of hundred thousand dollars at the Barrett-Jackson Auction in Scottsdale. Hagerty Insurance, an insurance company that specializes in protecting collector cars, has created a list of 10 new cars for sale in 2008 that it believes have the greatest potential to be collector items in 15-20 years.
And according to their list, even the frugal consumer can one day auction off his/her car for a couple of hundred thousand dollars – well, if you’re willing to wait 15-20 years. Prices of the cars on the list range from $12,000 to more than $70,000, while horsepower ranges from 70 to more than 500.
Click through for Hagerty’s list.
Top 10 Collector Cars of Tomorrow:
Audi S5
Cadillac XLR-V Roadster
Chevrolet Corvette Z06
Dodge Charger Super Bee
Ford Mustang Shelby GT500KR
Honda S2000 CR
Lotus Exige S
Pontiac Solstice/Saturn Sky
Smart ForTwo
Subaru Impreza WRX STI
Source: Inside Line
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Psych, I make exception to the Super Bee, XLR and Solstice, and those should be replaced with the GT-R, Corvette ZR1, and BMW M3. Think about it, cars with the GT-R’s and M3’s weight won’t be feasible under CAFE anymore, the GT-R will simply leave production and the M3 will probably be reduced in size, weight, and power, and the ZR1 just isn’t feasible any way you look at it.
The Super Bee is a seemingly common option I think, and the XLR is a terrible car now, in looks, driving characteristics and speed, and the Solstice is just plain common.
The XLR and Solstice will be gleeful fodder for hand-me-down-cars, and the Super Bee, given that fuel prices will only go up farther, and technology will outright change, is probably going to be remembered not with reverence (its neither sporty, good looking or luxurious), but with disdain for its callous display of excess use of fuel and low power by comparison to other cars in the segment.
The author of that “list” just gave me and my friends
a good laugh. He doesn’t have a CLUE, does he?