Hi all I don't post on here much....that will have to change, but me and my father in law were talking about cars that will be certified classics and headturners in say 20 years time,i mean a golf gti is visually so humdrum now,and most cars silver its hard to pick out the ones that will stay maybe these....
punto arbarth- not as common as its cute cousin the 500
toyota prius-very boring but this car started the mainstream electrical vehicle revolution did it not?
alfa romeo brera-crippling depreciation but the looks are typical alfa
Nissan 350z-powerful and pretty,renault engine or not its a beast
citroen pluriel-gotta have a quirky car in somewhere, modern day 2cv
future classics...or not
Re: future classics...or not
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Re: future classics...or not
To be honest, I tend to agree with Luxobarge about such matters - it's all in the eye of the beholder and the what is - or what may be - a classic will be different for everyone! As someone who thinks anything made after about 1975 is just another old car, perhaps I'm not really the one to ask about classics - past or future!
To be honest, it may be daft things like the Astra VXR (or whatever it is) that becomes classic because there aren't that many made and, in twenty years' time, most will have been written off! The Mk3 Golf GTI is old enough to be a classic, but I suspect that it will never be considered as such except by someone who has one of them: the Mk1 GTI is certainly a classic as it broke the mould of boring hatchbacks - though the Mk2 is a far better car and I would be more inclined to consider it the "ultimate" GTI. Unfortunately, some think the BMW Mini is a classic - though I see it as a retro-looking Metro replacement.
On the other hand, I suppose the cars I had in my youth are classics now - but, while I like to look at the odd early Minx/Rapiers and Rover P4/5s, I don't consider my Maxi (that I had for 13 yeas) to be a classic - yet it was the one that set the pattern for most of the modern hatchbacks (5-speed box, OHC engine, reclining front and rear seats and all sorts of little things the Mk2 Golf tried to copy - and my Mk2 Golf always fell short compared to the Maxi - as does the Mk5!
To be honest, it may be daft things like the Astra VXR (or whatever it is) that becomes classic because there aren't that many made and, in twenty years' time, most will have been written off! The Mk3 Golf GTI is old enough to be a classic, but I suspect that it will never be considered as such except by someone who has one of them: the Mk1 GTI is certainly a classic as it broke the mould of boring hatchbacks - though the Mk2 is a far better car and I would be more inclined to consider it the "ultimate" GTI. Unfortunately, some think the BMW Mini is a classic - though I see it as a retro-looking Metro replacement.
On the other hand, I suppose the cars I had in my youth are classics now - but, while I like to look at the odd early Minx/Rapiers and Rover P4/5s, I don't consider my Maxi (that I had for 13 yeas) to be a classic - yet it was the one that set the pattern for most of the modern hatchbacks (5-speed box, OHC engine, reclining front and rear seats and all sorts of little things the Mk2 Golf tried to copy - and my Mk2 Golf always fell short compared to the Maxi - as does the Mk5!
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