Increasing interest in VH cars?

[Krhuangbin]

Not sure if i'm imagining it, or am in some sort of echo chamber (probably..!) but i'm sure i've noticed a marked increase in interest in VH era cars in the last 12 months. Anyone else?

By this I mean quite a few automotive youtubers making videos on them, and many of those quite "rose tinted" in style as these start to edge on being modern classics.

I even notice a lot more kids these days pointing and look at my lowly 4.3 as i'm out and about, compared to 2/3 years ago (F1 effect?)

Maybe people are starting to realise what a bargain some of these cars are now and how special they are

I still can't quite believe you can get a semi decent V8 for mid 20's - that has got to be the best value "special" car out there?

[Calinours]

30-something youtubers getting a bit nostalgic about stuff they loved as kids. For them, in the noughties AM were almost impossibly cool. The launch mid decade of the breathtakingly beautiful DB9 and Vantage, 'the Aston fridge', Bonds DBS, with the decade bookended either end by the original Vanq in Die another day and Clarksons near silence TG test of the V12 Vantage.

I guess there's no surprise it's now seen as a bit of a golden era by many. Wonderful, (relatively!) simple naturally aspirated cars that were fast and robust enough, made great noises and featured hydraulic steering. Add to that the over powered, over regulated, over complex and over priced nature of modern stuff, the enormous depreciation to be expected and it's not hard to see the attraction and affinity for the older stuff.

Even though the VH were made in relatively high numbers, there's such love for them that they've already been pretty much depreciation free for some years. Ten years ago a half decent early VH Vantage would have cost 25-30k and it's the same today. Obviously inflation has reduced the value of money but if that's all there is to worry about it's easy to see where the attraction is for so many.

Edited by Calinours on Monday 11th November 12:00

[franki68]

I’m not so sure ,like most other cars even the likes of the v12v S manuals have dropped a lot the last 12 months .
Given there are only ever usually a few manuals for sale you would think it would keep value but alas not .

[CSK1]

Or maybe the V12VS manual was overvalued to start with and is coming down to a more realistic market value?