can someone explain why?

[944Turbo]

ORIGINAL: diabloam

Great read this post, I thrashed and scrapped several 2door Mk2 escorts in my younger years and oh how I wish I just stuck them all in a barn somewhere, they are rot boxes totally and were not in the same league as a 944 when new never mind when old. But now even a rotten 2door mk2 shell fetches silly money. They are either bought by idiots who will spend crazy money on them restoring them (have you seen the prices genuine panles can go for now also) or the good guys use them for rallying. Also remember pulling out of buying an integrale evo2 for cheap years back (anybody seen the prices of good ones of these lately - crazy) and regretted it, defo missed the boat a few times in terms of keeping future classics and selling them when they have bottomed out. Same with pug 205gtis, had few of them (think prices on these have started climbing now also). Bet everybody regrets not holding on to car after selling it at wrong time, lol.

On the subject of MOTs, I've being going to same place for over ten years now and guy still says from time to time I'll give you a pass but sort such and such when you get a chance. What happens then (obviously depending on what it is) is I am fixing  whatever he mentioned a week before I go down for the following years MOT, lol,  so I dont fall out with him, lol. Great post guys, loadsa good points.

Another question, for a change I am going to hang onto my 86 turbo and hopefully this time I might miss the bottoming out of values and actually have a car that is going to rise in value. Is the 944 going to be future classsic and will values rise accordingly, hoping so as mine is an early turbo which is now in great shape and still sub 100k miles. Or are they just going to leve and stay put? These things are genuinelly hard to predict, whats the consensus?

Given your history, they should go up in value just after you have sold the 220

 

[TheFiend]

ORIGINAL: deafasapost

aah, nostalgia. talking about the cooking fords, many a moon ago now i had a mk1 fiesta xr2, in black and loved it. go kart handling and fast enough back then. i still hanker over one tbh, and looking at prices for a minter, they are very affordable.

I had 2 Mk1 XR2's.... a red and a black one....Loved them. The black one one one of the very few that had was built with no sunroof, but the idiot that owned it before me had an aftermarket one fitted!!! []

One day I will buy another....

Last year I sold my 89 Mk2 XR2 to a guy who is restoring it to show condition..

 

[Lizard]

Crazy escort prices, but its small change compared to how 911s have gone up in the last few years.

The 100k 964Rs is upon us, they were 25k few yrs back, scruffy ones in the teens, the 180-200k 993Gt2, was 100k 3 yrs ago. Thats not even touching on the current massive '73 Rs or 3.0RS prices.

Oddest thing tho is no 944 or even the 968CS has caught that boat at all, even if the 924GTS etc are now real money 100k area? what were they a few years back

Really nice 944s will be worth something in a few years, but I think it will be more like a 911 3.2 tho in that the price for good 'uns has been pretty static for many years, in that a good S2 now is similar to what mine was 5 yrs ago, rather than an RS esk stratospheric rise.