Our classic/young car predictions for 2019
Bruno von Rotz
01/01/2019
01/01/2019
The turn of the year often brings not only good intentions but also hopefully accurate predictions. We have also put some thought into this and present ten predictions for the classic car/youngtimer sector in German-speaking countries.
- Sought-after classics from the seventies to nineties will (again) increase in value in 2019
- Pre-war cars and cars from the 1940s to 1950s will continue to suffer from declining demand and therefore falling valuations
- One or two classic car fairs will throw in the towel in 2019
- Other manufacturers along the lines of Jaguar and Aston Martin will jump on the bandwagon and revive classic cars
- Electrified classic cars will continue to gain in attractiveness and manufacturers and suppliers will launch new products in this area (including for retrofitting)
- Increasing insurance problems will cause difficulties for racing events with cars that are not road-legal, so more and more events will insist on the normal road-legal status of participating vehicles
- Diesel and increasingly also petrol engine driving bans will also restrict the access of classic cars to city centers
- While modern/new cars are losing value faster and faster due to accelerated technological innovation (e.g. in batteries, control systems, assistance systems and onboard entertainment electronics), cars built 15 and more years ago will depreciate more slowly
- Initial considerations on the channeling of traffic (e.g. separation of partially/fully autonomous and free-driving cars) are included in the political discourse
- The major public exhibitions and classic car events will (again) report rising visitor numbers in 2019 Interest in classic cars/youngtimers remains unbroken ...
We will then see at the end of 2019 how wrong or right we were with our forecasts. And you, dear readers, are of course welcome to think and discuss with us, the comments section is always open for you.
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