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Originally Posted by dturbo
I can sort of see it both ways to be honest. If someone is a working adult and would like a mint condition saxo (VTR or VTS) which they can enjoy as a second car say, store it in a dry garage, protect the bodywork etc. then they would probably rather spend a few grand on such a car. It's not for everyone to be spannering on these cars or any others.
Yes, I would be delighted to get a usable saxo for under a grand but if they were plentiful for £250 for example then it wouldn't be long before they were gone completely as nobody would look after them or spend anything fixing them, knowing that they can just scrap it and get another. This is precisely why all the mainstream popular cars disappeared. Novas? Escorts? minis? All worth a bomb now because they were so disposable at the time.
I think there's a place for all price points. Personally it was a VTR I was looking out for, never intended to get a VTS lol.
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Before I got my Saxo VTR last September, which I found a minter -unmodified, no rust, all stamps, logbook and service records for £600. I was lucky, as it's worth minimum a grand. VTRs are not worth 5k at all.
I'm a mini guy and come from that community. I have two classic minis re-built. One worth between 5-6k and the other between 7-10k the higher one garaged as it's a minter and my show car which I only take out in the summer. And they would fetch them prices being classic minis alone and rising. I believe the Saxo VTR/VTS are future classics. They would never hit them prices like minis do, but still not many around on the road and that might bump there price in a few years.
VTSs are rarer and few and far between these days for an unmodified one, which has not been tracked and which is not a rust bucket. VTRs are more plentiful, but again, for a decent-none rust example you'd push for to get one for under 1k unless lucky like my example.... Again rising prices. My opinion anyway, could be wrong....