Yes, buy your VS SS or HSV, if I owned a VE or VF SS now I would sell it during this period of overinflated prices to fund my preferred "cool ride"
Well guys I'll be bowing out from the VF forum as I sold my VF over the weekend. I've been reading though the last few pages before posting this, hence quoting Ginger Beer in relation to selling up now.
I decided to sell for various reasons, but a couple that I'll mention here were that I wanted to test the water during this over inflated period to see if it would sell (not the main reason). Given the amount of media attention second hand cars have had of late, and in particular seeing the "advertised price" of VF's, it seems if you put a fair price on a car it will sell, as did mine. I bought it 2nd hand 5 and a half years ago, looked after it, added a few things along the way, and sold it for substantially more than I paid for it, crazy when you think a car 6 years old should have sold for half of what I got.
Another being that at 90 000km, the repairs outside of normal servicing were rearing their ugly head. I absolutely loved the car, and loved driving it, but the repairs were starting to irritate me, and I knew with it being a Holden, there would be more pain to come. There were also the other factors involved (ask my accountant.... Grrrr) which I won't go into. Plus the fact that it was an SSV, not a Redline. I think the Redlines and the Motorsport versions will continue to fetch premium prices for a while, but SS or SSV............ maybe.
I think I read someone say that young guys are not interested in these cars, well that's exactly the type of guy who bought it. So there are still young guys out there who are into these "dinosaurs". He came with his dad and brother, knew a lot about the VF's, so I know it will be looked after and that it's going to a good home, which eases the pain of seeing it go somewhat. I've ordered a replacement for it already after lots of research (2021 Mazda 6 GT SP Turbo, not exactly neck snapping, but a nice car), but will be keeping my eye on the 2nd hand market to see if it falls over in the next 5 years, to look at buying something like a VS/VR/VY V8 if prices return to "normal". I agree with Ginger Beer and others here, a lot less tech in those to go wrong, and hey, nothing will drive as well as a VF, but one of those would still be fun to tinker with.
In addition to that, and I think someone mentioned it, I want to see what the Australian Government will be doing over the next 5 years to see if they start treating cars with the internal combustion engine any differently, and in particular V8's, with all the talk of EV's, countries banning new internal combustion engine cars etc, who knows what will happen here with taxing petrol fueled cars.
I wasn't a huge contributor here, but want to thank all of you who replied to my questions/posts and helped me out. It's a great community, and I'll probably still drop on by to see what's happening occasionally.
Adios,
Jono
