Comments by "Golden Croc" (@GoldenCroc) on "Here's a Trick to Predict What Cars Will Rise in Value" video.

  1. ​ @80PercentAshamedOfU  LFA was overpriced for its badge. Old 8 series didnt really matter that it didnt fit the "ultimate driving machine" moniker, extremely few BMW customers care about that. Big GT cars have always been a hard sell and BMW rarely offer anything special in this market, with a not super premium badge. Combined with bad economy, thats likely why it tanked.
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  2.  @longtailgt  Indeed they might do so. We will see if it reaches this kind of "critical mass" of fame that can enable it to increase substantially in value. I dont believe it will, but it might happen. Cheers.
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  3. Percentage wise, those cars may well go up a lot, but not so much in pure money I dont think.
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  4.  @MW-te5fv  Britain is a market upon itself, very different from the US as I am sure you are aware. As long as there is a significant following of a car, and there arent many left, they can garner big money. People have been saying that about beetles for decades now, but it seems they just made to many of them, and too many are left? I think 2CVs might be the same, and they dont have such a big follwing in countries were people collect cars a lot. But its hard to say it really depends if one thinks of as a percentage or as in pure money. I dont think a Trabant or cars of that nature will ever be worth more than 100k USD in my lifetime. But they may well be worth 20k, that could be possible, which is a big increase from lets say the 3k you could buy one for. MG seems like a car just about only brits care about to be honest, but that doesnt really have to mean much, I never really thought a Ford sierra (cosworth) and other "fast Fords" would be worth as much as it currently is. The saying is a Ford Model T had its peak value in the 1950s, and after that went down, even though they became even rarer. Most people that had any connection to them and wanted one simply got too old to buy them any more. I think MGs are in danger of this maybe, hard to see a lot of people currently under 50 or heck even under 60 that are really into MGs.... but we will see. Cheers.
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  5. Only thing is "car community" dont buy new cars, normies do. So car community poo-poo ing something wont lead to lower sales in any meaningful way, even less so in years prior when cheap credit was harder to come by. So its more like nostalgia and tons of other factors that are specific to each car. Muscle cars gone up because of the era that followed with weedy cars for decades. NSX and stuff like that is the Gran turismo and Fast and furious which gave them free marketing etc.
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  6. Exactly. Though I really think he meant "couldnt sell them at the MSRP" but exaggerated a bit. In comparison to other cars that fly off the shelves even at, or above MSRP.
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  7. Doug makes some good points here, BUT it also looks a bit like the logic is about the same as saying playing the lottery is certain to make you rich... and as an example of that being true, just looking at lottery winners.
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  8. Noble might be too unknown. But that might be offset by low production numbers. Mk7 Golfs they just made too many of I think, dont see why it will follow a different curve than earlier Golf GTIs that take at least 3 decades to be worth some reasonable money.
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  9.  @longtailgt  I think those media apperances of the Noble are too brief. The first F&F movies were cultural icons, the later ones, not really. Koenigsegg had just as many apperances on top gear, in the 2000s, in fact one could say even more with that "koenigsesnensnensnen..." sign visible on top of the track time leaderboard every episode. It was Koenigsegg marketing and video games that made them more popular in recent time, I would wager hardly one in hundred (worldwide) who have heard of koenigsegg have heard of Noble. I dont think many Golf 8 buyers care about buttons or design, in fact there could even be more that prefer it. Its mostly people who werent going to buy it that comments, same as every car in that regard. I think it will follow the earlier golfs value wise, but we will see.
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  10. Tons of them, I am sure. It honestly seems like a lot of the example he brought up are because of extrenal factors. Supernirds have gone up, yeah but so has every muscle car. And as far as I know they were worth more 15 years ago. NSX have gone up, but so have every japanese sports car from 1985-2005 more or less, etc
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