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Originally Posted by Keith Seymore
Morning, everyone.
As some of you know, I worked for General Motors for nearly 40 years. I'm now working for Nissan as an Accessory Engineer, so I figure I owe it to them to get up to speed on their performance offerings, including the Z car (and it's history) and the GT-R.
As you might guess it's quite an adjustment for me, as an all American "boomer" who grew up with GM muscle cars, to transition to Japanese car culture and collector car mentality. That's why I'm always shocked to see some of these older Japanese cars either going for or asking some big numbers.
It seems the era of the million dollar American muscle car has passed. Is the predicted younger generation/Japanese performance car era now on the rise?
K
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I played around with some Jap tuner cars 15 years ago and I was watching Skylines then so here is my take: good Skylines (GT-R's) have always commanded a 6 figure premium however when adjusted for cost as new they are still way way behind a typical Muscle car in appreciation.
I actually think the mid 90's GTR's are about half what they were in valuation during the Fast and Furious period about 18 years ago.
Much of the cost and availability issues in the JDM imports are driven by implementation of Shaken Law, so most of the cars here have a good number of miles on them when imported.