Some 25-year-old versions of popular Japanese sports cars are selling for more than their brand-new equivalents, as Gen X-ers begin to enter the classic car market looking to relive their “fast and furious” youths.
Classified website carsales.com.au has a 1998 Toyota Supra RZ manual with 90,000km on the clock for $150,000, while Lloyds Auctions expects a similar price for a replica of the orange Supra driven by Paul Walker in the original 2001 “Fast and the Furious” movie.
A replica of the"Fast and the Furious" Toyota Supra is expected to fetch big money at auction this weekend. Picture: Supplied. A 1999 WRX STI with more than 27,000 on the clock is listed on Carsales for $155,000, while there are at least 10 advertised for more than $80,000. Frank Cheney, head of classic cars for Lloyds auctioneers, says a new breed of collectors has emerged in recent years.“There’s a generation that has grown up watching the Fast and the Furious and the cars were always out of reach when they were young. But now they can afford them,” he says.“The new cars don’t connect with them because they don’t have the lineage to the movies. They’re not the same cars,” he says.
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