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- VF Redline Sedan - A6 Spitfire MSE...
Desirable? Absolutely!! An awesome car, streets ahead of anything Holden or Ford have ever done in Australia. Claimed as the first and probably only ever car to knock off the e39 M5 as the best performance sedan ever made. Collectible?Depends on your definition.
But yes. People have been collecting them already. Some have multiple MSE's. Some have a full set of all 3. Many are stored away for safe keeping, like, well...collectibles. So yes they are desirable, they are collectible and they are great value for money as a drivers sedan. Will they appreciate in value? Entropy and natural attrition will help. But maybe not in my lifetime. Sorry to say but if you bought yours as an investment asset through your self managed superfund, you need a new adviser and you will retire poorer for the decision.
Those who knock them and say they're not good value. Some of you paying only $5-$7k less than I did, for a far lesser Redline. Only to throw $ at upgrades and still be left with a lesser car. Have you ever actually driven one? I mean really driven one? Spirited driving along a twisty mountain pass. Through potholed city streets, onto a free flowing highway, and along rough and bumpy 100kph country back roads. With a surprise around every other bend? No? I have. I've done so in my modded VF Redline which has upgraded brakes and more grunt than my MSE. I've done it in a VF2 Redline, and an LSA Clubby. The MSE was the better than all of them. Far better than my Redline or the VF2. More up to the the task than the Clubby, thanks to that awesome Holden tuned suspension with it's 4 settings. Better to steer too. More comfortable. Better breaking. Better equipped. Better. Simply better.
LSA power is great. Also easily achievable from an LS3. But power becomes meh after a while. Particulaly when the rest of the car is not up to it I.e. Fords Sprint. **** handling, outdated and bland. With a bit more power than a stocker. Yeah great job...
Not until you're lucky enough to drive a limited edition like this, can you comment on the cars value for money with any authority or credence. But you're totally entitled to your opinion, realising of course, that's all it is. Oh, and they're like buttholes.
The cars future value? Anyones guess. Crystal ball stuff.
But yes. People have been collecting them already. Some have multiple MSE's. Some have a full set of all 3. Many are stored away for safe keeping, like, well...collectibles. So yes they are desirable, they are collectible and they are great value for money as a drivers sedan. Will they appreciate in value? Entropy and natural attrition will help. But maybe not in my lifetime. Sorry to say but if you bought yours as an investment asset through your self managed superfund, you need a new adviser and you will retire poorer for the decision.
Those who knock them and say they're not good value. Some of you paying only $5-$7k less than I did, for a far lesser Redline. Only to throw $ at upgrades and still be left with a lesser car. Have you ever actually driven one? I mean really driven one? Spirited driving along a twisty mountain pass. Through potholed city streets, onto a free flowing highway, and along rough and bumpy 100kph country back roads. With a surprise around every other bend? No? I have. I've done so in my modded VF Redline which has upgraded brakes and more grunt than my MSE. I've done it in a VF2 Redline, and an LSA Clubby. The MSE was the better than all of them. Far better than my Redline or the VF2. More up to the the task than the Clubby, thanks to that awesome Holden tuned suspension with it's 4 settings. Better to steer too. More comfortable. Better breaking. Better equipped. Better. Simply better.
LSA power is great. Also easily achievable from an LS3. But power becomes meh after a while. Particulaly when the rest of the car is not up to it I.e. Fords Sprint. **** handling, outdated and bland. With a bit more power than a stocker. Yeah great job...
Not until you're lucky enough to drive a limited edition like this, can you comment on the cars value for money with any authority or credence. But you're totally entitled to your opinion, realising of course, that's all it is. Oh, and they're like buttholes.
The cars future value? Anyones guess. Crystal ball stuff.
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