We have had a raging discution here in the garage as to what car will be collectible 30 years from now. Cars today have some expensive computer controlled components that will be much harder to duplicate than lets say a set of points for a Dusenberg. Some canidates for collectible status in 30 years will be American muscle - the Camaro SS, Trans Am WS6, and current Shelby line of Mustangs (higher up the rung obviously the better). The current Charger and Challenger SRT8s should hold some interest, depending on how they have been treated.
In Ferrari world the CS, Scuds, FXX, and other Ferraris/Lambos should do well as well as the new Alfa 8C. I would imagine that the Carrera GT, SLR, SLS, and Bugattis are going to hold their own, but dont think they are going to join the ranks of the 250 GTO or 250 Testa Rossa. The 360s and 430s are just going to be too common unfortunately while I can see a day where a solid 308/328 could trade for more than either of them. (I admit my own bias in that statement)
The extremely low production cars (Panoz, Koenigsegg, Noble, etc...) could really go either way. I see this due to limited support over years if the companies manage to survive Gov regulations and to the limited supplies of even parts cars. One indicator of high maintence costs keeping cars out of the restoration cycle is the Porsche 928. This has kept prices of these GT cars low for years and almost 30 years on no one is spending big bucks to restore one. In 1983 it was the fastest car sold in the USA.

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