Maserati gransport breaking

[Parisien]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MASERATI-...arts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item4cf90ee329

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[conaero]

You dont see many of these getting broken now do you. I suppose they are starting to be worth less and less so the likelihood of them being scrapped is getting higher.

 

[BennyD]

Works for me. The more that get broken, the fewer there are (therefore worth more) and the more parts there are. Sad I know, but a simple matter of economics.

 

[Parisien]

Not so sure....depreciation is the main weapon of price loss...bizarre 2 GS's up for breaking on the same day...not seen one for yonks!

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[Woody]

This one has been being broken for a while....I saw it in March/April time I reckon. He's breaking (or was) a 3200 too. I think it was 3m's motor salvage.

Where's the other one being broken, anyone know?

 

[BennyD]

Not so sure....depreciation is the main weapon of price loss...bizarre 2 GS's up for breaking on the same day...not seen one for yonks!

Surely, the fewer there are the slower they will depreciate, especially the sought after ones.

 

[Parisien]

Might apply to the low miles, special editions.....but they will all follow the the cycle.....and become like the biturbos...........wonder when their upturn is...for all 100 of them left!!!!!?????


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[BennyD]

I don't think 4200's or GS's especially will ever assume the mantle of the Biturbo. That was a low rent motor that never really got a good reputation IIRC. The 4200's are a far more polished creation.

 

[Parisien]

Agree Ian....BUT...in their day, they cost pro rata the same as the 3200/4200s did....true?

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[BennyD]

True, but a far less accomplished machine and far less desirable......true?

 

[Parisien]

Yes....but if we are looking purely at survivability....making it sought after....that one thing aint enough.

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[urbanmaser]

Works for me. The more that get broken, the fewer there are (therefore worth more) and the more parts there are. Sad I know, but a simple matter of economics.

Benny comes back to what I said in another thread that as more and more cars bite the bullet a good car will begin to appreciate. In the case of the Gransport and Spyders that is particularly true as they are a rare cars to begin with in right hand drive

 

[BennyD]

I think so too Pete but I guess time will tell. It doesn't really matter to me as I have no intention of getting rid and my mileage is racking up fast; from 25600 to 34100 since October and I didn't use it for three months! Loved every mile!

 

[urbanmaser]

Benny I was sorely tempted to buy that 2006 black spyder with 2,000 miles on the clock. Not crazy about the wheels but yellow callipers would give them a lift. I could get that swapping my Gransport (similar money). I reckon the Spyder if the mileage stayed low which it would with me, would hold it's value better than Gransport

 

[BennyD]

Do it! I don't think you would regret it.

 

[urbanmaser]

Do it! I don't think you would regret it.

Giving it serious thought. My only reservation is whether I want to move on to something else and also I would need a 4 seater wich with a G Wizz and Smart car in the family I don't possess. I wish to heaven I had kept my Alfa GT

 

[BennyD]

I know you are tempted because it will make you more like me which, I can understand, you want to be!!