Been considering my options for next year so had a gander at the for sale prices and was pleased to see how well they have held their value. I've never bought a car on what they will be worth in X years, I just buy what I like/ can afford at the time. So the question I ask is do you think these prices will hold out or is next year a good time to sell?

 

unlikely to go up huge amounts. if it was a classic typr r or ra then that would be a different story

 

I'm not on about making lots of money, like I said it was never my intention to make anything when buying a car but not to loose heeps of cash (as with most cars I've owned) is a nice thought

 

What are they selling for though? I see plenty of high priced Impreza's at the minute (particularly on gumtree, I though that was more for sheds though!)


What would you pay for a clean widetrack with about 80k miles? I was thinking of putting mine up for about £7.5k, I was considering selling but I am blowing hot and cold.


How many widetracks were registered in the UK in 2005/06? I am guessing about 1000 from howmanyleft.com. Similar to total Escort Cosworth production run? Only problem are the 1000's of other newage sti cars out there, and not including the JDM imports. Can't see the prices going the same way as the fast fords, would love to stand corrected however.

 

Obviously yes you are right I don't actually know how much they are actually selling far but judging by how little time they are up for sale for must mean they are reasonably priced. Like I said I'm not after making loads of money that's not what I bought it for just nice in the hope if I do sell at the min I might not loose loads either.

From what I've seen 7.5k for an 80k Widetrack STi doesn't sound out the way in terms of price depending on condition and mods etc. Similarly I think my 55 plate totally unmolested 53k PPP would sell fairly easily for more than that.

The question I was really getting at is do people see the prices falling in the future due to Tax, fuel prices and more importantly the age of the car or is selling now seem to be the peak time?

Jon

 

Has nobody else got any thoughts on this? I'm sure other Widetrack or even new age scoobs in general both long ownership and new owners must have some thoughts?

 

They will go up in price if people keep breaking them for parts

 

prices have been going up for the last couple of years, but if fuel prices hadn't come down so much would the prices still have gone up?
Dealers know they can make money on them, so buy private cars as soon as the ad's go up and then list them for sale the next day for £3k more.
Then people wanting to sell look at dealer prices and put them up for sale at a similar price
As they get older, less good condition cars are for sale, and how many good condition, good running cars get broken for spares? so breakers are willing to pay a good price for a good car, so they can take it to bit's and make more money.

If fuel prices go back up to £1.50p a litre, the prices will drop because they become more expensive to run and people will be selling them cheap to get rid.

 

Hmm food for thought, but if what is happening at the minute with Diesel prices might keep the values steady. I'm in two minds what to do as it just doesn't get used (less than 4K) a year and I now have another work horse it will get used even less. But I do really like the car and being as it took me so long to find a good standard car makes me think it worth keeping that bit longer. Decisions decisions :/