FTO Value to increase?

FTO338 · Post by **FTO338** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 1:42 pm

Hmmmm S13 use to be $23k-25k at the start, & now u can pick them up for under $10k, so the price had drop a fair bit. I had a couple of them before as well, so i lost some money big time.

FTOluv · Post by **FTOluv** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 10:30 am

Every import that was brought here back in the 90s use to cost a lot of money. The importers were getting a huge profit for bringing them down. Once every Tom Dick and Harry started bringing the cars in, the importers had to lower their profit margins to compete. Nowadays u wont see the price of any import car dropping that much. Most import prices have been exactly the same for the last year and a bit now.

I remember 6 years ago the prices for a twin turbo supra was 60K, FTO GPX was 40K, R33 GTR 120K.

Now look at the prices. Funny thing is, they were still worth that price back then becuz no other Australian delivered and the same peformance and options.

justjap · Post by **justjap** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 1:10 pm

yes thats very true in fact now under the new system the compliance cost has made a lot of the cars just to expensive to bring in and compete with the import cars already here.

Steve

rxboy · Post by **rxboy** » Sun Jan 09, 2005 3:21 pm

I just got my insurance renewal from Just Cars and although the premium has remained exactly the same as last year, the insured "agreed" value has increased by $500.

I never spoke to them on the phone and asked them to raise the agreed value. So this might be a sign that the market values of FTOs might be slightly increasing.

Jase · Post by **Jase** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 5:34 am

What's your insured value? My GR was insured with just cars for 19.5k two years ago. I switched to famous the following year and the insured it for 17.5k.

rxboy · Post by **rxboy** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 11:16 am

20.5k for '97 GPX. Is that too little?