Cars of the sixties were not the best investment after all
05/02/2019
It was almost exactly five years ago that we asked our readers in a " question of the week " which vehicle age category they thought could increase in value the most in the next half decade.
The readers were pretty unanimous. 41% were convinced that vehicles from the sixties have the greatest potential to increase in value, followed by cars from the seventies (20%), cars from the post-war years up to 1959 (16%) and then the more recent cars from the eighties (13%). Neither the pre-war vehicles (5%) nor the neo-classics of the nineties (2%) were expected to make big leaps in value in 2014.
And the readers were somewhat wrong at the time. If you compare the 2019 Classic Data ratings with those of 2014, the picture today is very different. As a basis for the evaluation, we compared almost 5600 ratings from the two years, using the Condition 2 value ratings in each case. This results in the following average increases in value over five years:
Cars from the eighties have increased the most in value over the last five years (84.2% increase in value on average), followed by the nineties (68.6%) and the seventies (43.1%). Only then come the 1960s (35.8%), which still performed better than the cars from the decades before.
In terms of relative increase in value, the newer cars have therefore won, which does not mean that they could have generated the most added value in absolute terms.
Nevertheless, very few readers expected this result five years ago. The question now is how things will continue over the next five years. And we are happy to let our readers "oracle" again. The corresponding "Question of the Week" is already online! Take part!
