you guys think mk3's will ever go up in value?

[born2drv]

maybe in 20 yrs? 40 yrs? what do you think?

personally i plan on keeping mine forever and never selling it (which is why I'm replacing every damn thing on the car now while it's still available).

but it would be nice to drive something worth $20,000-$50,000 kelly blue book value instead of $3,400 :icon_conf

 

[SupraJDS]

Yes, just like muscle cars. This generation was into imports, grew up with them (depends how old you are) . Im sure our supra's will be worth something in that range sooner or later.

 

[bigaaron]

In a word.... no.

 

[whenmunkysfly]

when it becomes....classic lol

 

[Adjuster]

I don't think so. The MK4 will have this happen, but the MK3 was never cannonized like the muscle cars and movie cars like our friends in the jellybean MK4's.

I do believe that for the right person, and the right cars, getting 10k or so would not be impossible, but the car would have to be done right, and whoever buys those cars will have to know what they want.

Stock ones will not sell for that amount IMHO, but I could be wrong. Look at the crazy prices for clean stock Z28's? They are insane for what your getting.

I owned a 73 Type LT that i bought for 1300, and sold for 2300 and now it would be worth 10 or 15k easy because it was clean, and had all the original stuff. There are beaters in the early 70's now going for 5k.
The late 60's stuff is 100k depending on what you have to sell. (Barret Jackson anyway.)

Will the Supra from 88 be in the 100K range here in 20 or so more years? IDK, but I doubt it. (If it is, I'm still going to be driving it around however...

I belive the next engine if there ever is one, will be a nice LS3 based 7.0L twin turbo No more Mr. Nice guy to the rest of the playground group. A 1000+ Hp street MK3 would really irritate just about everyone I came across. (Especially the domestic guys, but the import people as well...)

 

[SupraOfDoom]

Just look in the for sale sections on SM and SF.. I have never seen so many MKIII's going for $5-10,000 since I joined the forums in 2001. It's already happening. That's for nice ones, but in the end the only ones left will be the nice ones. I have no doubt they will be sought after someday.

 

[born2drv]

Well it's a supply-demand issue... supply is definately going down.... I guess the question is, will there be a demand of people willing to pay $20+k for a supra if they were very hard to find in good condition?

I'm not so sure the answer to that is yes. If the only way I could get parts for my car were to buy another good condition supra for $10-20k, or mine was totalled and I wanted it replaced and got the same amount from the insurance company to buy it cash or pay a little extra, I might do it.

 

[SupraOfDoom]

In 10 years If I made enough and something happened to mine, you'd bet your ass I'd pay $20k for a nice one.

 

[SupraOfDoom]

I will however say, that, thats what I AM willing to pay. Anyone who knows me knows that I am not cheap on what I want.

 

[IJ.]

Mint condition low mile unfucked with car maybe......

(yeah like that's gonna happen )

 

[miggles]

Mint condition low mile unfucked with car maybe......

(yeah like that's gonna happen )

You selling your car Ian?:naughty:

 

[CTsupra]

no.

 

[billspreston01]

they price will probably go up, but it won't be crazy high. It's gonna be like those old cars that only certain people like. Karhman Ghia's? (spelling) tons of people don't even know what they are, but the people that like them will spend the money. El Camino's too, some people like them, and they will pay to get what they want.

 

[Insidious Surmiser]

Mint condition low mile unfucked with car maybe......

(yeah like that's gonna happen )

yeh, lol, not gonna happen, lol, even when i have the money to buy a daily driver supra, no way in hell will it be stock, lol

on a side note i can't understand why the hell the muscle car guys will restore/keep a car at EXACTLY factory specs w/ the 8 track/record player and everything, and on top of that, they won't even drive it??? :nono:

 

[tissimo]

no but they are rising in value now a little bit from what I see..

 

[Demianu27]

All we need is a movie to come out with the hero driving an MKIII, and BAM!

 

[Insidious Surmiser]

lol, lets make one!!!


only decision to make... who's car should we use???

edit: actually another major problem comes to mind... the general public would neither like, understand, or appreciate the movie, that is if just mk3 supra guys made it :-/

 

[da89soup]

Lets use suprheros, our current ride of the month!!!

Heres the story line!!!! We could have a nice down to earth mentally retarded kid from, I dont know Alabama. We will call him Jay???? Ok so Jay knows there is some stuff going down in the big town and infiltrates the construction underground with a hot rod Ford Work truck. The story unfoldes when Jay stumbles on to a huge building material smuggleling ring (Legos). The legos are shipped across the border in enzo's. So our suprahero Jay needs to build a car to keep up with the enzo's. Enter the Mk3!!! We get to see the build all the way down to the painting of the car (kwnate blue). Needless to say its a happy ending our retarded suprahero Jay saves the day by catching the enzo's and solving world hunger and stoping the Lego smuggleing just in time before our ecosystem is destroyed forever.

The End!!!
I should be a movie writer!!!!!!!!!!!(oh and I have no Idea what an ecosystem is)

 

[Facime]

Actually the price will go up. My reasoning comes from my background with 1st generation Celicas. While those car have not reach anywhere near the status of the US muscle cars of the same era, they are in fact becomeing quite rare and a good example of what happens when a particular car has both a following and a short supply. 10 years ago you could pick up a nice original 1st gen Celica for under $1000. Now you would be hard pressed to find one at all, much less for that price. I sold my 73 recently with a VERY tired motor (using 2qts oil a tankfull), a broken windshield, a destroyed dash pad and a bit of rust and a body in primer only for $2300. (paid $400 10 years ago for it)

The Mk3 is becoming harder to find in decent shape. I know, because Im currently in the market again. Sure I can find clear coat peeling, torn up interior, blown head gasket cars all day long for less than $1000 or even $500. But finding an untouched, low mileage turbo, targa, 5spd for less than $5000 is nearly impossible. (I found one...in white...with 37k original miles...but the guy wants over 10k!)



Edit: went and looked again...its silver, has 39k miles and the guy wants 13k...and to be honest...I would buy it for that if I had the money to spend

 

[Wills7MGTE]

stock cars are slow, I think the whole modded decreases value thing is another reason humans outta be considered messed up beings. And I highly doubt the mk3 will see any kind of major value increase, mk3's, I love them and wanna keep mine as long as I can but would I want a MK4, hell yes. The mk3 is the pioneer in a lot of mk4 technology, but face it we are the generation nobody takes much interest in and nobody would really want if given a choice between the two. Those classic vettes, camaros, and stangs sell for that much because of a lot of reasons but one of those reasons is the fact that they were the most beloved and most mainstream models of that time, a time that a lot of old people wanna go back to because they are too lazy to learn about newer technolgies, I hear lots of 40+ year old around here who buy old cars because they can work on them and hate anything electronic. But hey whose to say what a mk3 will be worth 20 or 40 more years, there may not be many in existence because I see very few turbo mk3's in good shape and I see a lot of ragged out na's driven by stag guzzling hee haw guests who rust them out cuz they are cheap cars to buy. MK3's are indangeered species.