[Hersbird]

Originally Posted by AJI

People always have and always will make the same comments when it comes to the cars that people lust after, the cars that'll become classics, values etc.

Each new generation grows up lusting after whatever generation of cars is around at the time. People who grew up in the 80s and 90s are now working and making the kind of money that allows them to buy the cars they had on their bedroom walls as a kid.

They're classics to those guys (me included - I was born '85) - those cars are of course 20-30 years old now, which is no different from a guy looking for a "classic" in the 1980s having the run of 50s-60s metal...

You only need to look at the price of Japanese stuff to see what the effect of a generation of buyers can do. Old farts have been saying for years that Japanese cars couldn't ever be classics, that it was undesirable, and lacked the pedigree of Euro/American stuff. The price of Skylines/NSXs/Supras etc today says otherwise, and the six/seven-figure prices of even older Japanese classics - early Skylines, 2000GTs, Cosmos etc - show it's not just the "Playstation generation" who are interested.

The Insight? That's what we'd call a "modern classic" over here in the UK. The earliest ones are getting on for 20 years old now, they're fairly rare, and they're interestingly engineered, all of which put it in a good position to be a "proper" classic in the future.

Not many traditional classic cars are more fuel efficient than the majority of modern vehicles, either...

I was 15 in 85 and could make a list, year by year of every car I lusted after for 10 years until 1995 and every one I could easily buy today but don't want now.