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Citroen 2Cvs
There's a few featured on MSN. Why do they hold their price so well?
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Well crap rather depends on the criteria on which you are judging
Yes if you are a Jeremy Clarkeson clone who want's Power and luxury.
If you're looking for a car that is simple and cheap to maintain, returns good mileage an will drive over rough ground then a Ferrari is a crap car!
Whether a car is crap or not rather depends on how well it fulfills it's design goals.
A 2CV was famously designed pre war to be able to carry two farmers, 50kg of potatoes and a basket of eggs across rough roads without breaking any of them at 50km/h
And by that criteria it suceeded brilliantly.
In modern terms classic cars do hold their prices well partly because there are a fixed (or declining) number of them and they continue to appeal.
I believe that appeal is partly to do with their character (and the 2 CV has that in spades) and their simplicity (many classic cars can be rebuilt with a limited toolbox in an average garage)
The key thing is that certain classics have a large enough base that parts supply is not an issue specialists are common and the parts are remanufactured- 2CVs fall into that category.
If you take a more obscure car parts can be difficult - If you fail an MOT on a cracked windscreen on a 2CV you'll be able to just replace it, if the same thing happens on a fiat 130 say you'll be hunting for months to try and find somebody who has a wreck you can salvage parts from.
Yes if you are a Jeremy Clarkeson clone who want's Power and luxury.
If you're looking for a car that is simple and cheap to maintain, returns good mileage an will drive over rough ground then a Ferrari is a crap car!
Whether a car is crap or not rather depends on how well it fulfills it's design goals.
A 2CV was famously designed pre war to be able to carry two farmers, 50kg of potatoes and a basket of eggs across rough roads without breaking any of them at 50km/h
And by that criteria it suceeded brilliantly.
In modern terms classic cars do hold their prices well partly because there are a fixed (or declining) number of them and they continue to appeal.
I believe that appeal is partly to do with their character (and the 2 CV has that in spades) and their simplicity (many classic cars can be rebuilt with a limited toolbox in an average garage)
The key thing is that certain classics have a large enough base that parts supply is not an issue specialists are common and the parts are remanufactured- 2CVs fall into that category.
If you take a more obscure car parts can be difficult - If you fail an MOT on a cracked windscreen on a 2CV you'll be able to just replace it, if the same thing happens on a fiat 130 say you'll be hunting for months to try and find somebody who has a wreck you can salvage parts from.
I was about to say pretty much what jake did... they are crap if viewed by most modern standards, but when they were first built they meet their design criteria brilliantly.
A guy a know bought one about a year ago on the mistaken premise he would be able to drive it on a motorbike license (you actually can drive the pre 1954 ones on a bike license) when I informed him he wouldn't be able to drive the more recent one he'd got on a bike license he decided to keep it as it's value will escalate... he's already being offered 50% more than he bought it for after only 1 year!
A guy a know bought one about a year ago on the mistaken premise he would be able to drive it on a motorbike license (you actually can drive the pre 1954 ones on a bike license) when I informed him he wouldn't be able to drive the more recent one he'd got on a bike license he decided to keep it as it's value will escalate... he's already being offered 50% more than he bought it for after only 1 year!
Tony... people that passed a motorbike test before a certain date have "grandfather rights" to heavy quadricycles, which are 4 wheeled vehicles with an unladen weight of under 550Kg and power of no more than about 20HP... which very early 2cv's meet the requirements (although I think it would have to be the van version of the 2cv) (the need to have a kickstart or no reverse isn't mentioned in the definition of a heavy quadricycle)
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