These last 5 or 6 years in the car game have been interesting for me because I always bought cars that I thought would be future classics in the "one of the best ever" sense but not because I thought I would make money off them. Because I like driving them I don't see any need to sell them. And there's really nothing I don't love about this car, especially for the money.
That said, on exactly zero days have I thought the car was worth $50k or more. And I still can't really see the arguments for it. Maybe a brand new one still in the factory wrapping. Maybe. And I've seen one of my cars just take off value wise, to the tune of several times what I paid for it, and I wouldn't pay today's prices for it, ever. Finally a car that I think runs circles around that car and this car combined is worth basically nothing, pristine, sitting in my garage. I drive it basically any time the weather permits.
The only thing that explains any of this is the speculator's "cars as investments" game, similar to what we see playing out in Pre-Merger AMG cars. And while we all benefit from it to some extent (someone will call these the next air cooled 911, in which case it won't matter how many miles you put on the car) I suspect we're all a bit tired of the noise surrounding it. We just like to drive the cars, otherwise we wouldn't own them and care for them the way we do.
maw
That said, on exactly zero days have I thought the car was worth $50k or more. And I still can't really see the arguments for it. Maybe a brand new one still in the factory wrapping. Maybe. And I've seen one of my cars just take off value wise, to the tune of several times what I paid for it, and I wouldn't pay today's prices for it, ever. Finally a car that I think runs circles around that car and this car combined is worth basically nothing, pristine, sitting in my garage. I drive it basically any time the weather permits.
The only thing that explains any of this is the speculator's "cars as investments" game, similar to what we see playing out in Pre-Merger AMG cars. And while we all benefit from it to some extent (someone will call these the next air cooled 911, in which case it won't matter how many miles you put on the car) I suspect we're all a bit tired of the noise surrounding it. We just like to drive the cars, otherwise we wouldn't own them and care for them the way we do.
maw
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