SRT6 as an Investment?
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Barrett Jackson never ceases to amaze me. A 21 window VW Microbus Deluxe just sold for $217,000 US. Never in a million years would I have thought a VW bus would sell for that kind of money. So who knows 45 years from now what a Crossfire will sell for. Well providing we can still buy gas!?
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Re: SRT6 as an Investment?
Originally Posted by Hurricane
Barrett Jackson never ceases to amaze me. A 21 window VW Microbus Deluxe just sold for $217,000 US. Never in a million years would I have thought a VW bus would sell for that kind of money. So who knows 45 years from now what a Crossfire will sell for. Well providing we can still buy gas!?
Don't plan on a college education off your AMG Crossie.
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Originally Posted by blackcrossfire07
A Dodge Spirit R/T compared to a crossfire? Isnt the dodge spirit a 4 door sedan? Come on....
I have always seen the superbird and SRT as a valid comparison. A Road Runner with a wing on the back and a different nose. Just like the SRT. Small production numbers just like the SRT. Will the SRT ever come close to the value of a super bird? That is an entirely different question. But there are similarities there.
I have always seen the superbird and SRT as a valid comparison. A Road Runner with a wing on the back and a different nose. Just like the SRT. Small production numbers just like the SRT. Will the SRT ever come close to the value of a super bird? That is an entirely different question. But there are similarities there.
You forgot the most important similarity..............both the Roadrunner and the Crossfire have 4 wheels and tires that they roll on.
Crossfires were limited in production due to LOW interest from consumers. Chrysler put the car on overstock.com for christs sake and still couldn't sell them. lol The general public just thinks of the car as a overpriced M-B wanna be that looks like crap. There's a buyer for everything though, just look at the ugly Corvairs and Azteks.........there are people that love those piles. Maybe I am the crazy one though and the few that let their cars rot away in a garage to make $50k 100 years from now will be laughing in their graves. I would still rather drive/mod any car I own to my liking and enjoy driving it as it should be.
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Originally Posted by JimmyJames
I AGREE with this post!!!!
But there is a BIG difference with the Superbird
1) Nascar history!!
2) Big block Muscle Car Craze---THAT was the catalyst which drove the crazy demand/ prices!!!
With the Grand National---Turbo V6 from the 80's---No big deal!! Yes, fastest production car in 86, still no one REALLY cares---not enough to make it a GREAT investment!!! Other investments would have been better over the last 25 years!!! Did not have a V6 turbo, 80's car catalyst, and I doubt we will!!!
My question---What will be the catalyst to drive the demand in the future for the Crossfire? Hybrid German-American cars from the 2000's?
If the "group" like muscle car demand did not rise, the Superbird would not have gone crazy, nor would have Hemi Cudas, etc. Neither sold well at the time, BUT the Muscle Car Craze drove them and due to the lower numbers compared to a Camaro or Mustang, they were getting a higher price.
This car is a GREAT deal for the money, but that is it! Look at other AMG cars---NONE are off-the-charts collector cars---but as it was said---"Collectability is such a fickle thing"---I say---drive it and enjoy it---Best BANG-FOR-THE-BUCK out there---At full price when they first came out, not so much!!! But the 5 year old used market---YES!!! I paid $19,655 for one with 917 miles on it this time last year. A little high at the time, but way lower than the $46,800 sticker that was in the glove box that the owner kept. There is NO WAY I can lose $27,145 (assuming that he paid full price) unless I PAY to have it taken away.
JUST DRIVE IT and wear a grin!!!!
But there is a BIG difference with the Superbird
1) Nascar history!!
2) Big block Muscle Car Craze---THAT was the catalyst which drove the crazy demand/ prices!!!
With the Grand National---Turbo V6 from the 80's---No big deal!! Yes, fastest production car in 86, still no one REALLY cares---not enough to make it a GREAT investment!!! Other investments would have been better over the last 25 years!!! Did not have a V6 turbo, 80's car catalyst, and I doubt we will!!!
My question---What will be the catalyst to drive the demand in the future for the Crossfire? Hybrid German-American cars from the 2000's?
If the "group" like muscle car demand did not rise, the Superbird would not have gone crazy, nor would have Hemi Cudas, etc. Neither sold well at the time, BUT the Muscle Car Craze drove them and due to the lower numbers compared to a Camaro or Mustang, they were getting a higher price.
This car is a GREAT deal for the money, but that is it! Look at other AMG cars---NONE are off-the-charts collector cars---but as it was said---"Collectability is such a fickle thing"---I say---drive it and enjoy it---Best BANG-FOR-THE-BUCK out there---At full price when they first came out, not so much!!! But the 5 year old used market---YES!!! I paid $19,655 for one with 917 miles on it this time last year. A little high at the time, but way lower than the $46,800 sticker that was in the glove box that the owner kept. There is NO WAY I can lose $27,145 (assuming that he paid full price) unless I PAY to have it taken away.
JUST DRIVE IT and wear a grin!!!!
The only catalyst I can see bringing up the value is it being the rarest SRT model made along with the fastest out of the first generation of SRT's, excluding the Viper of course. Then again unlike other SRT's ours isn't a true SRT, it's a AMG.
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Re: SRT6 as an Investment?
Originally Posted by Moparrbust
You forgot the most important similarity..............both the Roadrunner and the Crossfire have 4 wheels and tires that they roll on. Crossfires were limited in production due to LOW interest from consumers. Chrysler put the car on overstock.com for christs sake and still couldn't sell them. lol The general public just thinks of the car as a overpriced M-B wanna be that looks like crap. There's a buyer for everything though, just look at the ugly Corvairs and Azteks.........there are people that love those piles. Maybe I am the crazy one though and the few that let their cars rot away in a garage to make $50k 100 years from now will be laughing in their graves. I would still rather drive/mod any car I own to my liking and enjoy driving it as it should be.
Crossfires were limited in production due to LOW interest from consumers. Chrysler put the car on overstock.com for christs sake and still couldn't sell them. lol The general public just thinks of the car as a overpriced M-B wanna be that looks like crap. There's a buyer for everything though, just look at the ugly Corvairs and Azteks.........there are people that love those piles. Maybe I am the crazy one though and the few that let their cars rot away in a garage to make $50k 100 years from now will be laughing in their graves. I would still rather drive/mod any car I own to my liking and enjoy driving it as it should be.
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