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Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 1:42 pm
by FTO338
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. :evil:

Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 10:30 am
by FTOluv
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.

Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 1:10 pm
by justjap
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

Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2005 3:21 pm
by rxboy
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.

Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 5:34 am
by Jase
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.

Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 11:16 am
by rxboy
20.5k for '97 GPX. Is that too little?