I believe in the earlier years, the Supra was 60k, they cut cost, also the RX-7's were not as high priced. The Z I believe was around 30k+ and so was the VR-4, but the Supra definitely had the higher price tag in all years.

 

Supra was never 60K. all of them were seperated by a few thousand and all were in the low to mid 40's.

In order from lowest to highest:
RX-7
300ZXTT
Supra
3000GT VR-4

 

haha.. hell yes 3 fast 3 furious is gonna drive our resell value through the roof! im thinking about taking my modded red 2003 evo with 60K+ on the odo and parking it front of the theater opening night with a 27K price tag.

 

Your never going to MAKE money buying a modern new car at normal price, letting it sit in your garage, and selling it 10 years later. We are not living in 1966, there is not going to be 20X inflation in the next decade (hopefully).

The whole reason that the supra is worth so much, is becuase there is no other car avilable used or new that matches it for what that group of enthusiasts want.

Evo 8, Evo9, MR's are all too similar for the value's to become far spread. There is no real reason to want an MR over an Evo8 to justify a giant price differance in 5-10 years. There are also way to many cars produced, and productions looks to continue for atleast a few more years.

Evo's will be at best, on the low end of standard depriciation. At best. This is assuming they are of excelent quality (they are not), and hold up well in 5-10 years. My bet is they turn out to be POS in a decade just like dsms did.

 

^^^ ouch



Compare to what? In it's market? All you have the STi and WRX...

 

Damn Alzheimers, thought I remembered a fully loaded 95 or 96 supra was much higher.....

 

You are right, I went back and checked those years. I initially used the last year of each car according to NADA, but the 96 Supra is significantly higher then the 98, so much so that I think the book/e-guide is inerror. It is an online guide sold to dealers and it estimates the base MSRP, some years for some cars are N/A. But the base MSRP for a 96 was 49,900 and in 98 it was 38,500.

I guess the last year wasn't the best choice since the manufacturers had probably already decided to kill them and had lowered prices to try to encourage a big sendoff.

A 95 300ZX TT is about $4K more then a '96 (which is an undeseriable year anyway because EPA regs forced them to drop the VVT heads and horsepower dropped like 40BHP, but I doubt NADA knows that.)

So on average I would say the order from highest to lowest:
Supra TT
3000GT VR-4
300ZX TT
RX-7

Worthy of note is the 3000GT Spyder VR-4. Only two years of production and you are most likely only to run up on a '95 because supposedly only like 100-150 '96's were brought over. $64,449 was the MSRP in '95. The last two years of MR2 turbo production are insanely high too, because only a handful of cars were brought in as well.

 

Damn!!! I can't imagine paying 65k for a VR-4?

 

This is accurate. Also important to remember that four door sedans have never been particularly appealing to collectors.

 

Well, you cannot expect Evos to hold a lot of value. Supras have the Toyota name to back them up and being a 6 cyl are more likely to be more durable.

 

why are 6 cyl more durable?

 

the stock blocks and tranny sell the car, meaning the reliability while building, not too many cars out there like that in my opinion.

 

Im planning on getting a EVO8 once spring hits because i cant think of another car as good mainly because I have to go turbo this time. So my plan is to sell the S2000 stack money over the winter and second week of spring buy an EVO8........... Unless i can find a great condition 93-98 Supra for around 20k!!!

 

The Supra motor is probably one of THE most durable motors EVER made. It can handle well above 500hp on stock internals, 1000+hp without nitrous, and around 1200hp on the bottle.

The Supra is, in my mind, is the ultimate car. You could own one, and spend the rest of your life building it and racing it in any catagory. Drag? 9's and street legal. Street? Find a turbo'd Busa. Auto-x? Sure. Road Race? Try to keep up.

For a 6cyl, its amazing