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Rocket88

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The A2 is an exceptional bit of kit though.  I did some reading up on them and they really are very interesting - in a James May sort of a way - and there's good reasons for them to hold their value the way they do, not least being some pretty awesome engineering and some very sensible approaches to creating an efficient little car.

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They all Aluminium, which is probably the only car in that class every to be Ali. I think they where way ahead of their time as they had tiddly diesel and petrol engines and a super light body at time when fuel hadn't quite got to the offensive stage it's at now.  I think they went through a phase of being pretty unwanted but in the last couple of years they've picked back up in value because, they're small, super cheap to run and an Audi.

 

Apparantly they're a liability when they come across a decent motorway cross wind because they're so light and slap sided.

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They're great, I love those A2's, the A1 looks good as well. Well done Audi for sticking to your 'design guns' and not following BMW's lead making horrible blobby design mistakes.

 

I can add Audi A3 to this. Last time I checked, a 13 year old A3 TDi is around 2k.

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I know they're a fairly specilist car, but a nice Honda CRX Vtec (90-92 shape) has never really dropped below £2.5k, despite the fact that they almost always have intergalactic mileages and no rear arches left and are now at least 20 years old.

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Land Rover Defender.

 

Yes, they're very good off-roaders and good tow vehicles. But they're nothing special on-road, plus they break fairly regularly and they do rust.

 

A 20+ year old one will still cost you upwards of £2,000 (possibly even £2,500)

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MK1 Escorts. I know they're good and all that but tens of thousands of pounds? Really?

 

Yup, build a rally car from one and win all the historic events for half the price of an even slightly usable 911. Worth every penny.

 

Unless it's a four door, in which case about £3.5k tops as nobody wants one.

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