Thank you! And yes, absolutely...I'm local to SakeBomb Garage so I'll arrange for them to give the car a proper tune-up and address any odds & ends.

 

Ah yes, right behind the 90-97 Lincoln Town car

 

I found that hilarious as well. However, if you read their methods, they rank by rate of appreciation compare to other cars, not actual value of the car. Glad to see that I got 2 cars on the top 10 list.

 

I have a 94 VR R2 with 25k miles that I'll sell for 37,500 (overall excellent condition). I'm not kidding


It will soon be ranked above the Supra and eventually be worth more hehe :p

 

I agree with most of what you say but the top selling US spec FD will ever sell for more than the top selling US Spec Supra.

Currently I believe the market on FDs and Supras have plateaued. A lot of high asking prices but most cars that are moving are between $15-25K.

 

It is interesting who is buying the cars at current levels. The survey of length of ownership is very interesting - in that there seems to be an even split across the five categories. This I would take as healthy for the market as it shows some diversity and continuing demand from new, or repeat, owners.

 

I haven't seen any such indication regarding plateaus. I think Adam's car is evidence that #2's are cracking $30k+, and the silver r2 shows that #1's are higher than they've ever been.

The context of the thread and title are way off from where they started. Very average cars are asking +$20k, and that's not what we were talking about. We were talking about #2's parading as #1's.

 

I just said that to stir people up/trolling the supra FD thing However that said lets give it 20 years. I could care less about a supra. Lots of cars I'd rather own but when it comes to the FD there is just something extra special about it that I think will remain intact for the next few decades.

 

The red one? At least it's original. But, it's an example of Fritz' paradox where the new owner maintenance will be a pretty big deal.

I bet it goes near or above $20k. Look at all the gushing comments. Superlatives everywhere.

 

It's funny how the cars that need the work done go for higher value than the ones that have already had it done. No one wants a car anyone has touched. The same goes for that GSL-SE that sold for over $10k in BaT last week. I took one look underneath and saw it needed bushings, shocks, springs, and likely other stuff as well. The paint was horrid. You can pick up a car with all that sorted for a few grand less.

 

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1994-mazda-rx-7-10/

Yep looks like a barn find variety (dirty engine bay, faded paint, faded cowel, faded cluster rings, missing fender brake vent grills, hole in dash console, faded ast, low brake fluid etc...etc...) so I also suspect around 15k or so.

PS the avg FD is currently some POS sitting on jack stands so this one is not too shabby LOL

 

Yep this one is fools gold for sure but as you mentioned there are lots of fools for this car hehe

 

What shocks me is the number of FD owners out there that are not on this forum. I can't imagine what it would be like to own an FD without this community/resource lol

 

If you keep this car bone stock there are not a lot of issues if you do the maintenance other than boost. The majority of stock FDs that I've purchased had boost issues and likely had them for many years. Most of the owners didn't even notice or think there was a problem until you hook up a boost gauge and explain what's happening.

I don't know how many active members this forum has but it likely has thousands of inactive members so I'm betting the majority of FD owners are on this forum or were on it in the past/know about the forum. I'm also guessing/hoping that there are still quite a few FD owners who've had this car a long time and it's just sitting in their garage or storage somewhere waiting for someone to drive it

 

..or buy it

 

I can honestly say that if it wasn't for this forum my car would be 100% stock.... I fell down the rabbit hole and never came back out.

 

 

Count me in the inactive members, until recently. I haven't had the time, money, or ambition to get the car out and deal with getting it emission tested and re-registered, so it's been sitting for most of the last 10 years. Now that it's hit the 25 year mark and WADoT doesn't want to put a probe up my tailpipe, I'm bringing it back out of hibernation.

 

Post a pic and let us guess the value.

 

AWESOME!!!

This is a car meant to be driven!!!

 

I've been in and out of the rabbit hole more times than I can count and now firmly believe the rabbit hole is for track cars only.....LOL

 

 

I'm saying be practical (don't let the mod addiction become an affliction) and don't build a race car or you won't be able to enjoy it anywhere but a race track. More importantly if you or the shop you have building it doesn't know what they are doing you will be pouring money and time down a drain which will take all the fun out of owning the car.

The FD is the perfect street sports car (2800 pounds, 300 rwhp) with just the basic bolt ons and if you add cooling mods it may even survive a track weekend.

That said the mod thing is a drug so typically you first have to figure out how high you can get before OD'ing and then real it back in. Some folks have a very high tolerance LOL.

BOTTOMLINE: YMMV!!!!

 

 

Some of the best mods nowadays are going back to stock spec.