Cars from the seventies are considered to have the greatest potential to increase in value (question of the week)
Classic cars and, increasingly, youngtimers are enjoying great popularity. Many a car enthusiast buys a classic to enjoy driving it, but also to invest money with a certain sustainability.
Five years ago , Zwischengas readers answered the "question of the week" as to which era is likely to have the best prospects of increasing in value.
And now we have focused on this question for the second time , partly because we wanted to know how readers' views have changed.
When asked which vehicle age groups can expect the highest (average) increase in value over the next five years, 433 Zwischengas users responded:
Almost 59 percent see the seventies and eighties as the biggest winners. At 29.8 percent, the seventies are just ahead of the eighties with 29.1 percent.
The sixties follow with 19.6 percent, and cars from the nineties are even more likely to increase in value (9.9 percent) than post-war cars up to and including 1959 (8.1 percent) and pre-war vehicles (3.5 percent).
The graphical result is as follows:
Of course, it is interesting to compare the estimates from 2019 and 2014, which shows a clear shift. While the 1960s were still the clear winners in 2014 with 41% and post-war cars were almost on a par with 1970s vehicles, everything has now shifted significantly, as the comparative chart shows.
However, as we analyzed in a blog post a few days ago, readers were not entirely correct in 2014, even when compared with the actual value development calculated by the Classic Data specialists.
In any case, the topic remains exciting and we will check again in five years' time to see how well our readers performed as prophets.
We have already posed the next "Question of the Week" , this time we want to know whether today's electric cars could one day become collectors' vehicles?
And of course you can always look up the results of the past 130-plus Questions of the Week in our dedicated topic channel.
