Did Fast and Furious Cause Price Inflation of Performance Imports?

"Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis" (Dwhite95)
04/07/2015 at 18:00 • Filed to: None

Or where these cars always bound for the high prices that they are demanding? The 4th generation Supra didnt spend much time on the downward depreciation curve. The absolute cheapest one I found while snooping around was this !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! which was also the only one I found under $15,000. Low mileage examples comfortably sitting in the high 20's to mid-30's. FD RX-7's are slightly more reasonably priced, but still demand prices that go into the low 20's without issue, one !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! even asking $37,500. And the hype behind the R34 Skyline needs no introduction. Were cars like the Surpa, the RX-7, and the Skyline GT-R always bound for the prices and fame that they are getting? Or did Fast and Furious play a major role in the current market?

DISCUSSION (10)

MrDakka > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
04/07/2015 at 18:03

Kinja'd!!!

Everyone lusts after this wing

MLGCarGuy > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
04/07/2015 at 18:05

Well I think Fast and Furious caused everyone to go and attempt to modify imports, and prices spiked because nowadays it's hard to find a clean and unmodded version of the same car.

BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
04/07/2015 at 18:08

Ummmm

YES.

They would probably appreciate on their own, as they get older, and new cars continue to suck under over-regulation by comparison. (new cars being heavier, thicker, taller due to crash safety and pedestrian safety regs, and rampant over-complication, and the cost of federalization keeping niche models off the market if they can't surpass that to make a profit...)

But F&F caused a frenzy that spiked demand, and keeps spiking demand, and making everybody with a 90's era coupe thinking that they have something made with gold bouillon parts, no matter how clapped-out it is.

crowmolly > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
04/07/2015 at 18:09

I'd say that it's a solid yes.

Not the first time this type of thing has happened, either. Back in the 70's it was trucker speak and Trans Ams.

Scary__goongala! > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
04/07/2015 at 18:09

Absolutely they did. To start, the first movie made car enthusiast out of people who may never have been otherwise. So the demand for cars automatically went up. Some cars were out of production so the supply couldn't increase despite new growing popularity. Add to that these new enthusiasts would not have been very seasoned in the art of car buying. So they might have paid to much to start. So when its time for them to off load the car you sorta can't blame them for not wanting to lose money.

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
04/07/2015 at 18:24

Yes. I was turning 16 at around the time the first one came out and was hoping to find a used Supra. The movie came out and umm, yeah. It wasn't going to happen at that point. It was pretty instantaneous.

RockThrillz89 > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
04/07/2015 at 18:30

Yes and it sucks. But the bigger problem is people modding them on a super budget. I really want to find an early 90's Civic hatch sub $2k just to have something to tool around town in, practice my art of the clutch and maybe rice the shit out of it in the future because why not (not to be confused with JDM as fuck). And if you can find them, they either want too much for what they are (still relatively cheap, but not 2k cheap) and/or they are slammed and stanced them to hell. I don't want one that some highschool kid did with his fast food job spending change. I want to do it myself, and still keep it useable. Then drive it until it's just scrap.

MultiplaOrgasms > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
04/07/2015 at 18:50

If anyting it cause a rice inflation and in turn a price inflation because unmodified performance imports are getting rare due to the aforementioned rice inflation.

Iheartmy365kHonda - Car enthusiasts do like FWD > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
04/07/2015 at 22:11

That $37,500 RX-7 has a 1.3L Rotary 6 cylinder!!!! GET IT NAOW! THERE SO RARE!

wafflesnfalafel > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
04/07/2015 at 22:29

Yes, but it's the same thing as Disney's 101 Dalmatians - everybody and their cousin needed a dalmatian after that came out...