I followed a lovely Rove P5 this morning and It got me thinking - which car built in the 90's do you think will become a sought after classic?
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From mainstream manufacturers only, I'd say
- Fiat Coupe and Barchetta
- MGF
- VW Corrado is already semi-classic
- VW Polo G40
- Volvo 850 T5 (not the S/V70)
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Jaguar XJS, esp the convertible - already sought-after.
Jaguar XK - ditto.
Bentley Continental R - ditto.
Honda NSX - ditto.
Honda Legend coupe - should be but probably won't.
Alfa 156.
Of course, technology problems could rule them all out, except as museum exhibits, sadly.
Mind you, under the '30-year rule' that seems to apply to 'classics', people will be raving one day about the Ford Focus, etc, in the same way that classic car mags are now raving about things like Mk 1 Escorts.
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Rover 220 Turbo or the 216 GTI hatch or a Rover 827 coupe
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I sometimes think that the Mk 1 Renault Espace should be a classic - but I seem to be in a minority of 1 :-(
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Peugeot 306 GTI-6. The last of the old school, screaming, true lift off oversteery hot hatches that you drove with pure skill rather than electronic acronyms.
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205 GTi - picked one up on fleabay a couple of weeks ago.
1990 model with only 2 owners and 65k miles.
So far its brought a smile to my face every day just by the way it goes round corners - superb fun.
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Nissan 300ZX ... goes like stink (according to HJ.
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Ford Puma
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Rattle, you really need to get out more.
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Mazda MX5, yes I know it was launched in 89 but I consider it a 90s classic. Also the last of the aircooled 911s: the 993.
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a couple of citroen - bx maybe and the xm more likely.
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205 GTi
Or that one! :-)
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CityRover----------------
unfortunately by the time it came on the market as a rover in this country it was 6 years too late
a classic example i think of poor management
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VW Golf MK3 VR6 ?
BMW M3 M5 Z3M ?
Ford Escort Cossie if there're any standard ones about?
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205 GTi - picked one up on fleabay a couple of weeks ago. 1990 model with only 2 owners and 65k miles. So far its brought a smile to my face every day just by the way it goes round corners - superb fun.
Indeed. But be careful not to lift off the power abruptly when half way round one of those corners or you just might find yourself facing the way you came
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Fiat Coupe and Barchetta - not likely there slow unrefined and fall apart.
MGF - um as above plus head gaskets and cheap chinese knock offs still being built.
VW Corrado is already semi-classic - only in the Butt-atlas VW are god worship camp everyone else thinks it is a non-practical golf.
VW Polo G40 - lmao your kidding right?
Volvo 850 T5 (not the S/V70) - workhorse nothing more, and i'm a fan of Volvos. 850R on the other hand....
Audi TT is already turning into a classic
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Audi TT is already turning into a classic
you are joking.
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you are joking.
Beat me to it!
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Fiat Coupe and Barchetta - not likely there slow unrefined and fall apart.
Laughable! If you call 0-60 in just over 6 seconds slow, what exactly do you call fast?
And you think the TT is already a classic? A squashed Beetle that was bought by everyone who wanted a quasi-sporty car and had no imagination?
Wow. Just wow.
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What's a 'classic'? I suppsoe something that's either aesthetically beautiful or good at the job it was dsigned to do - or both.
I agree with the 205 (not just the GTI) and the Espace - but they were introduced in 1983 and 1984 respectively and along with the Mark I Golf GTI count as 80s classics.
From the 90s -
Mazda MX-5 (strictly 1989 as someone said above but 'of' the 90s)
BMW Z3 (a little bias here as I've got one)
Jaguar XK8
Ford Ka
Ford Puma
Porsche Boxster (when did that come in? - maybe it belongs to this decade)
From the 200s, as well as the Boxster -
MINI
Ford Focus
Current BMW 3-series
Audi A4 Avant
Mercedes CLK
Nissan 350 / 370 Z
VW Eos
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The Ford Ka will always be a classic and it will be remembered by many as the last proper Ford. The Puma is already becoming a classic and is a car all people of my generation lust after but will probably be too old by the time we can afford to have 5 cars.
I also think the Punto might become a classic because of what it was, the 205 is a classic but is an 80's car, by 1990 although still a great car it was not a new design anymore (but still the best supermini on the market if I think about it).
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You can get a decent puma for £2k, thats the same as the scrappage allowence....
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>The Ford Ka will always be a classic and it will be remembered by many as the last >proper Ford.
its a horrid rusty cheap ugly nasty thing with ashtmatic engines that rust the plugs in the head. If it was an animal you would shoot it out of pity
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If it was an animal you would shoot it out of pity
or if you were a different sort of person, kick it to death in a sadistic frenzy.
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I'm with Rattle on the Ka. Cheap, reliable, simple, fun to drive. I remember when all small cars were like this.
Styling is a matter of taste - I personally find it as fresh and sharp as the day it was introduced, but can also see it's not for everyone.
OK, they rot, but so do the various elderly Triumphs, MGs, Alfas, Lancias and most other things we consider classics today.
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>I personally find it as fresh and sharp as the day it was introduced
It was introduced with those horrid black plastic bumpers. They look like a poo smear up its bum.
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Without doubt Peugeot 406 Coupe
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Yes indeed, how did I forget that one?
But the Ford Ka - oh my giddy aunt...
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oh my giddy aunt...
Yes. But Rattle is right about the 205.
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The ford ka is an icon made of iron let it rustibule in pieces
its not a classic
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Which 90's cars will become classic?
Easy one that.
All of them.
What makes a car classic is in the eye of the beholder. They're all just lumps of metal at the end of the day and it takes a person to attribute something personal to it - its never generated of its self.
Think of the blandest most forgettable car you can from the 90's and it is just as much a classic as anything else from the era.
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Was the Vauxhall Lotus Carlton in the 90s?
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I'm glad someone mentioned the 406 Coupe. One of the best looking mainstream cars ever built.
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I agree with you Davidh.
Basically, any car from the 90's which is still around in 25 years time will probably be classed as a 'classic' by virtue of the fact its still drivable.
A Morris Marina is considered a classic by many, and yet when new, who would have thought a beige one lashed together in between strikes would be potentially classed as a classic today?
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absolutely, how many BT engineers in the 70's realised they were driving a future classic?
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I'm rather hoping the Jaguar S Type.........as I intend keeping it
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Audi 90 Quattro 2.3 20V - a Q car if ever there was one.
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I would regard a 1984 Lada Riva as a classic most would regard them as a shed.
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I walked through a supermarket car park today and mused at the myriad boring saloons and hatches around. Not one stood out but something small and blue caught my eye, an H reg Renault 5.
It almost looked fresh and modern compared to the other cloned euroboxes.
A future classic?
Who can say.
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I would regard a 1984 Lada Riva as a classic most would regard them as a shed.
all sane men regard them as sheds
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all sane men would say what is lada
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I believe classic cars stopped in 1939 and from then onwards cars are utilty machines to be discarded after use, as with toilet paper.
But it appears from teh silly prices paid the VW vans post WW2 are the epitome of 'classic', I had a few and my goodness, I was glad to be shut of them too.
But it takes all sorts.
As for 90s, then got to be the MR2 - affordable, powerful ( import of course) and not too hard to mend
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When someone mentions the word classic the image which pops into my mind is a car with large round headlights, lashings of chrome and huge wings with sweeping running boards and coachbuilt bodywork.
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Lada Riva ??? Rattle, you and I could fall out !
Peugeot produced 24 different models in the 90s. Any surviving will now be classics.
Oh, sorry...did the OP mean the 1990s ? He didn't say.
Ted
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"Mercedes CLK"
Nah, that C-based car is not a patch on its predecessor, the E-based W124 Coupé and Cabriolet.
Another 1990s MB classic: the R129 SL.
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Thanks for the replies - some interesting opinions.
Definitely agree with the 406 - convinced a colleague to buy one of these a couple of years ago and he loves it.
For myself my current thinking is an A4 convertible - though I'm breaking my own rules as it is the post 2002 models that I'm looking at.
If I was retiring soon I'd by one of these hope it would see me out - but that's just a pipedream now.
Hey ho
MPZ
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Mk 2 Toyota MR2
As for the Ford Ka...should have called it the Ka Ka ;-)
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