Does anyone think the F-Type will go the way of the E-Type?

"K-Roll-PorscheTamer" (k-roll390)
10/17/2015 at 18:42 • Filed to: Da future

I feel like this has been asked at one point on here or somewhere at somepoint. But what do we think? Will it appreciate like F-Types, or will it follow regular car depreciation? that goes for both V6 and V8 models. Where do we see this car value wise in the next 5 years? 10 years?

DISCUSSION (31)

Viggen > K-Roll-PorscheTamer
10/17/2015 at 18:47

I would love for the F-Type to depreciate much like XK8s and XKs did. What are used F-Types going for now?

PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power > K-Roll-PorscheTamer
10/17/2015 at 18:47

hopefully not, as I want one eventually. the F-type (much like the E-type) in one of the most beautiful cars out there.

If it does just keep getting more expensive though, there's good XK-R's I can snag for the price of a C63 AMG or E92 M3 nowadays.....

Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras > K-Roll-PorscheTamer
10/17/2015 at 18:49

It’ll depreciate like a brick

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > K-Roll-PorscheTamer
10/17/2015 at 18:49

Next 5-10 years it’ll drop like normal. 30-40 years, perhaps it might climb again.

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras
10/17/2015 at 18:50

Why do you say that?

Sam > K-Roll-PorscheTamer
10/17/2015 at 18:51

They’ve sold a lot of them, so they’ll surely depreciate for the next 10 years. An issue with them in the future is that they’re filled with so much technology that will be worn out or irreparably broken in the further future.

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > Viggen
10/17/2015 at 18:54

A quick cars.com search has the convertible V8S going from about $75-90k. The only coupe on there is an R for $92k. Base V6 Convertible is at $55k.

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
10/17/2015 at 18:54

What would normal be?

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > Sam
10/17/2015 at 18:55

But that can be said of almost all new cars. So can that statement be said for them as well?

Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras > K-Roll-PorscheTamer
10/17/2015 at 18:58

because it’s a Jag, they depreciate like a bowling ball in water, even though the F type doesn’t sink as fast. Plus laden with tech that’ll be out dated in 10 years (that may be generous) I don’t ever see these reaching cult status of the E type.

Viggen > K-Roll-PorscheTamer
10/17/2015 at 19:01

Then they are already dropping at a good rate.

(The more important question, is, will 997.2s depreciate more so I can get one?)

daender > K-Roll-PorscheTamer
10/17/2015 at 19:03

Not like the early E-Types, but more along the lines of the V12 series or the later XJS. It’ll come back up slowly after a few decades but it’ll never hold a candle to the early E-Type.

DrJohannVegas > K-Roll-PorscheTamer
10/17/2015 at 19:03

E-types were cheap for a long time after they went out of production. Rust, sheer numbers, etc. all made them a pretty devalued car. Also, remember that the E-type was pretty affordable (comparably) when it came out. In the same way, the F-type will lose value for a while, but as the herd thins and time passes, it will bounce back.

Sam > K-Roll-PorscheTamer
10/17/2015 at 19:04

Probably. You get a lot of unique cases, like the 1M and the M235i, but those are more due to limited production.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > K-Roll-PorscheTamer
10/17/2015 at 19:05

Here in the UK it’s about 50% of its value every 3 years.

Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen > Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras
10/17/2015 at 19:05

Don’t forget E-types depreciated like a brick too. In the late 70s you couldn’t give them away: they were seen as unreliable rusty heaps of shit.

Once the F type has got through that stage, who knows, maybe in 40 years time it’ll be seen as the last gasp of the beautiful, exciting, drive-yourself gas-burner.

OPPOsaurus WRX > K-Roll-PorscheTamer
10/17/2015 at 19:06

I know is a bit different but early 2000’s xj8’s are like $4k - $10k

Viggen > Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras
10/17/2015 at 19:09

It has cult status now, but that’s because of how different from the status quo of Jag in the past 20ish years it is. The F-Type took so much hype that the XKR-S GT, the XK’s swansong, was nowhere to be seen in the media unless you looked for it.

But, I think part of the E-Types success can be drawn to how many celebrities owned one when it was new.

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > Viggen
10/17/2015 at 19:27

The 997.2s are standing rather firm in their price, depreciating slowly if at all. They are essentially 991s in a 997 body after all. The ones we’d all want are within the same range as the F-Type, PDK or manual. 997.1s and all 996s withouts turbos should keep falling for a while longer.

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > DrJohannVegas
10/17/2015 at 19:28

How many E-Types did they make? I didn’t even know it was an “affordable” car to begin with, relatively speaking.

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > OPPOsaurus WRX
10/17/2015 at 19:29

What does that mean though.... (o_o)

DrJohannVegas > K-Roll-PorscheTamer
10/17/2015 at 19:36

In left hand drive, about 58,500 across all generations. Lots of those came to the US, too. (See the “built” column: http://www.xkedata.com/stats/ )

In 1961, in the US, it cost around $5600, which is about $44,500 today. So, not cheap, but certainly not unattainable. About what a nice sedan cost back then. ( http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/1961-j… )

Viggen > K-Roll-PorscheTamer
10/17/2015 at 19:41

I just want a C2S or C4S, with PDK. 996s and 997s I’ll do. But I really want that 997.2

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > DrJohannVegas
10/17/2015 at 19:50

That is stupid affordable for what it is, wow.

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > Viggen
10/17/2015 at 19:51

Gonna have to wait 5-10 years at best, if the new turbos don’t mess up the enthusiast market.

Viggen > K-Roll-PorscheTamer
10/17/2015 at 19:53

My worry is they’re gonna cause even 996 prices to go up.

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > K-Roll-PorscheTamer
10/17/2015 at 19:56

I did the Jaaaag booth at the SF auto show last year, we brought in an S and it was fun to rev. Nic sound. These things have to depreciate. Anything in that class, especially a Jaaaag will, I agree. Give them three years and they will be way down.

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras
10/17/2015 at 20:00

Nothing can have a real cult following like that anymore, seems to me. New cars are built to be recycled and they don’t really have any soul. Can you see anyone restoring one of these new cars, ever? How could you? You can’t just replace the all the electronics in these things when they go to shit, and they will. It’s not like swapping new wires into my Z. My Merc mechanic friend tells me how much it costs to just repair some of the systems on a ten year old AMG, it’s insane.

That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms > K-Roll-PorscheTamer
10/17/2015 at 21:08

Nah. I mean I don’t really think many modern cars are going to appreciate like their classic counterparts in general...when a S1 E-Type was 5 years old, it was just an old car. I mean hell, the E-Type market has only really exploded in the last 10 years or so; my grandfather sold a S1 FHC that he had converted to a 5 speed, beautiful car, for $15k round about the year 2000. Now that’s probably a $50-60k car, even though it was a 5 speed in an unoriginal color.

With the modern stuff, they’re all pretty well built, and people are aware of what they are. They’re not going to be thrown away like things were in the 1960s and 70s.

DrJohannVegas > K-Roll-PorscheTamer
10/17/2015 at 21:16

I know, right? Admittedly, incomes were a bit lower (correcting for inflation), but still a decent price for a full-on sports car.

OPPOsaurus WRX > K-Roll-PorscheTamer
10/17/2015 at 21:30

That there is a good chance they will drop too