A true collector's car for the true enthusiast!

john --- we share your feelings, and have always loved others reactions to our 8s, it's almost incomprehensible our cars are worth so little,but i do'nt care, just keep spending what ever it takes to keep her looking beautiful,even more besides to carry out upgrades that take my fancy.

on a different point, ive just finished reading roadfly what a bunch of merchant bankers!!!!, i much prefer the serenity of club e31, what says you all.

steve

Ah so you saw the fun run of well heated posts on Roadfly!!

Normally it is a fun place but I think that a couple of Type A's had one too many days away from being in charge due to the holiday. Unfortunately there are also a few too many who love to pile on to the "victim" too.

Normally it is a more civil place than that.

It is too quiet here most of the time though. When I am the number 3 ranked Member poster, it is WAY too quiet.

John
Having failed to venture my opinion on your question before, I suppose that I should try now.

The answer is --Quite a while before price once again matches true value.

The last normal production year was 1997. The last 8 built was an individual sold in 2000. So the series has only been off the new vehicle market for 7 years at the most optomistic estimate.

Collectors haven't noticed it yet and won't for a while.

Attrition from poor maintenance and accidents haven't made it really rare yet.

It is still traded in sufficient numbers to be listed in places like Kelly Blue Book as a commodity. And as such the price is still subject to manipulation by a guy in a windowless office deciding he hasn't lowered the book value in a while. (All of the 850s including the CSi took an $8 to $10k drop in BOOK value OVERNIGHT last year--840s dropped about $5k about 2 months after that)

A good sign is that in the US the CSi didn't quite follow the last drop in book value. I would guess that most of the owners understood what they had was worth more than money.

The '98 SVT Cobra Convertible I just purchased will probably bottom out at a higher value and then rise again faster than the 8 because more potential American buyers "Understand" what Mustang Cobras are and feel ok Lusting after one. Whats an 840 Daddy?

For my part, I own my 840 because I love 8s. If my Wife or Kids get anything for it after I die......... Then Lucky them!! It just means that I couldn't wear it out fast enough!!

Zitat von Aaliyah724

Steve,

As long as the legacy of 8 series owners lives and great forums like this....the true value of our cars is priceless! Perhaps monetary value isn't everything....a true enthusiast is humble at heart!

John P.

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The 8 is The Constellation of the Cars

Dear friends,
I drive 8 since 1995 (and many other cars from friends occasionally); friends and even my wife told me, that I will switch to another "reasonable" car - but I did not and I will not ! It is a sort of having fallen in love with my 8: it is simply a joy to see and cruise her every new day - since 1995, and I think there will be no end till one of us dies, me or my 8, I think (ambigually do not hope !), it will be me.
For me the 8 is Lockheed's Connie of the cars: the most beautiful ever built car (and I have driven e.g. DB9).
Just love and enjoy her.
Manfred Hafner