8'S SHOULD BE A CLASSIC AND EXPENSIVE! YOUR VIEWS!!

I drive my 840 virtually every day all year. I will drive it until it eventually disentegrates around me but I will do what I can to make that period at least as long as the rest of my life.

I had no delusions of collector value when I bought it 2 1/2 years ago. In fact if it had been a collector car I couldn't have afforded it.

So from my point of view if the street value fell to nothing tonight I would still enjoy driving it just as much tomorrow

These cars do not seem destined to hold a high value. BMW built them for too long of a span (89-01) and built quite a few too many of them.
I'm not sure that BMW has built any other model for that long virtually unchanged appearance wise.

Already a classic?

In my humble opinion the 8 Series is one of the all time great cars - I think it's a classic, esp the csi with only 1510 ever built!
I'm still saving up to buy one so let's keep quiet about how fantastic they are before they creep ever so slowly over my price range.....

The 8 is sensational to drive. It has a tuly great engine range and one has to respect all other 8 owners first for buying an eight in the first place wether its an 850i 850ci 850csi 840ci 4.0 litre or the fantastic value for money 840ci sport with th3 4.4 litre and steptronic gearbox.

who cares it is deppriciating. At least we all own one ?? whilst its cheap to buy

GR888AT!!!

When ever i feel down or upset about anything I just look out of the window and see my eight parked in the drive way and know that everything is going to be OK

It may just be a car to others but to me............. well I am Micheal KNIGHT AND my eight is my KIT a mans best friend.

Hmmmmm??

Mine cost its first owner a staggering £72000.00 pounds when new. I paid £22500 after six years with full bmw history and its the individual spec with 65000 miles on the clock. Barely run in.

Do i care if it depreciates??? hell nooo I let the first owner worry about that . Would I have paid £72000?? If BMW announced they were going to rebuild a limited number of eights for loyal customers and fans my name would be the first on the order list.

The 8 should be a classic but NOT EXPENSIVE TILL I GET ONE

My full specced '99 840Ci Sport cost ME £67,000 when new! Id now be lucky to get £15,000 for it and its done about 40,000 miles, that means that for every mile i have driven it, it has depreciated over £1! Add to that insurance, services etc and ouch!