future un-cool collector cars (mileage, drivers, Buick, Cadillac)

[Tiffer E38]

Originally Posted by Ziggy100

H1 Hummers and Land Rover Defenders for sure. Plymouth Prowlers, Dodge Vipers, any “Hellcat” variety of Mopars. Shelby branded Mustangs, possibly Crossfires, Solstices and Saturn Skies. Anything with an LS engine in it.

The OP is talking about oddball and mostly plebeian cars that become collectable, like Falcons and Chevy IIs do today, and VW Beetles and Buses that were made in the millions and are still collectible. What new(er) car fills THAT mold, not the "traditional" musclecar or performance car mold.

[jfre81]

Originally Posted by Ziggy100

Nobody with a straight face can honestly say an 80’s Corvette or Camero is “aging well”.

Remember that pop culture drives these things too. Nobody would care about DeLoreans in 2018 if it wasn't for Back to the Future.

[kapikap]

Originally Posted by Katana49

Uncool cars never become collectible. The VW Beetle was NOT an uncool car. That car has a cult following, they've made movies starring that car, etc.

Still chuckling at the notion that an Acura RL would ever be collectible.

95 legend is highly collectable, as much as the nsx.

2005 model introduced the shawd to the world.
2011 to 2013 model less than 1500 sold.

[kapikap]

2007 FJ cruiser , manual.

FX35 was a game changer, ahead of it's time.

1990 Miata, soon to be the mustang convertible.

[adjusterjack]

Young people today are buying compact cars and turning them into "tuners."


A majority of the cars will go to the crusher so there will be a scarcity of them in 20-30 years when the former owners get nostalgic for their younger days and start collecting and restoring what's left.

[JONOV]

Originally Posted by Tiffer E38

The OP is talking about oddball and mostly plebeian cars that become collectable, like Falcons and Chevy IIs do today, and VW Beetles and Buses that were made in the millions and are still collectible. What new(er) car fills THAT mold, not the "traditional" musclecar or performance car mold.

See, with the Falcon and Chevy II I almost wonder if its collectible only because the muscle cars have been priced out for a big enough subset of the population?

Originally Posted by adjusterjack

Young people today are buying compact cars and turning them into "tuners."


A majority of the cars will go to the crusher so there will be a scarcity of them in 20-30 years when the former owners get nostalgic for their younger days and start collecting and restoring what's left.

I can see clean, unmolested, Impreza's and Legacy's being collectible, especially stick shift...

Some Honda Products already are collectible relatively young...

[Ted Bear]

Most any of those little things that they put a beer can on the exhaust and run around like a swarm of bees.

[kokonutty]

Nissan Murano Cross Cabriolet.

https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl...AegQ_B0I-gEwDA

[Coldjensens]

To me this is the most collectible affordable car of the 1990s

https://www.ebay.com/itm/222123034500?rmvSB=true

[bfrabel]

My bet would be just about anything with a manual transmission in it. Someday they will be all gone and people might wish they had one again (or younger drivers might wish they had the chance to have one too).

This means that maybe you could buy some cheap econo box with a stick shift (if you can even find one) and get your money back from it 20 years from now.

Right now the only vehicles that I can think of where manuals might be able to hang on for a while are maybe the Jeep Wrangler and the Miata. They seem to be quickly and quietly disappearing from just about everything else.