I know the prices are going up but . ..

[AVE-ur20v]

As long as the finance market stays with 0 % intrest rates, prices will continue to go up.
Not that this is something we want to happen, but people don't have an alternative to invest in.
Next year, the huge Chinese market opens up for classic cars, this will not help neither.

As Coxy quoted, the prices for other brands as Porsche, Ferrari, ... are even worse and going to stratospheric thin air.

Maybe the right moment to buy a classic Audi?

[theschmallfella]

Originally Posted by Ringmaster

Do you think the C3 will ever see a gain in values?

As much as I'd love to see it happen for the C3 it isn't going to happen, our cars are becoming rare but despite the exclusivity and rarity of the higher end C3's such as the 200q and the V8, there just isn't that kind of interest in them. Nobody is going to pay big money for a saloon when they can have the cool factor that goes with the coupe or the quattro. You also have to take into account the style of the coupe/quattro, it's unique, it's never been repeated and that makes them rarer still, the C3 was the basis for the C4 and eventually the first version A6.

And, and this is completely from personal experience, the coupe/quattro has serious 'bird pulling' power, which the C3 does not! Even my wife doesn't like the 200q, even though it was our wedding car!!!!!. Needless to say it wasn't the car she married me for!

[Addicted]

In 2000 I was free and single and making good money... I was trying to choose between a 964 RS and a Quattro Sport as they were both £50k.. instead I put it towards a flat.

Curiously the £70K flat is now worth £300k, the 964 RS about £200K and according to recent sales the Sport £250K..

So the Sport would have been the better investment.

[missfire]

..and £50k spent on bitcoins in 2011 and you be worth £50,000,000.

What people don't factor in to any of this is money supply. Ask George Osbourne how much your 2001 pounds are worth today!

[missfire]

Or incase he doesn't know, Osbourne that is, , a £300k house priced in 2015 pounds is worth £200k 2001 pounds.

They've ph*kt our currency, that's half the reason prices are rising all over the place.

[hmg]

Originally Posted by AVE-ur20v

As long as the finance market stays with 0 % intrest rates, prices will continue to go up.
Not that this is something we want to happen, but people don't have an alternative to invest in.
Next year, the huge Chinese market opens up for classic cars, this will not help neither.

As Coxy quoted, the prices for other brands as Porsche, Ferrari, ... are even worse and going to stratospheric thin air.

Maybe the right moment to buy a classic Audi?

Why is the Chinese market going to open up next year??

[Coxy]

Originally Posted by AVE-ur20v

Next year, the huge Chinese market opens up for classic cars, this will not help neither.

The Chinese love English cars, such as Morris, Jaguar and MG. Personally, I think now is a good time to start buying ready to sell these to the Chinese market next year.

[hmg]

I knew they loved our classic heritage I was just puzzled as why next year in particular?

Has China got the Classic Car scene ,knowledge and support network to keep these classics on the road??or will they just be mint museum pieces??

They'll have a job keeping any classic Audis running n China

[Coxy]

Originally Posted by hmg

They'll have a job keeping any classic Audis running n China

they'll be ok with the C3 Audi 100's

The C3-platform Audi 100 was also produced in Changchun, China, by FAW (First Automobile Works, a Chinese automotive manufacturer) during the 1990s. Since most products in China are designed for government use, all 100s manufactured as FAWs were front-wheel drive sedans with a 2.0 L inline-4 motor or a 2.3 L inline-5 motor.

In 1990, Politburo of the CCP approved a resolution to circumscribe car import and the engine displacement of cars equipped to officials. Furthermore, the resolution also prescribed that all cars of central departments of both Party and government must be domestic built. As the most luxurious and advanced cars made in China in early-1990s, FAW-Audi 100 and 200 had a high percentage of the Chinese high-class market of executive cars for nearly one decade, until the C3-platform cars was replaced by Audi A6 in 1999.

During the negotiation between FAW and Volkswagen in late-1980s, Volkswagen acceded to FAW's suggestion of combining the C3 platform with previously introduced Chrysler engines in the new generation Hongqi (Red Flag). Hongqi CA7200 series with the technology of C3 were launched in mid-1990s, while most of C3 Audi 100 parts could be made in China. CA7200 were initially equipped with Chrysler 2.0 L or 2.2 L 4-cylinder 488 engines, whose product line was introduced into China in 1987. In 2000s, new Nissan VQ20 engines replaced the original 4-cylinder petrol engine.[39]

A small number of C3 200s (with 1.8T or 2.6 V6 engine) and some early C4 100s (largely in European style but with tail lights in American style) were also assembled in Changchun.

[theschmallfella]

I think I prefer mine....