Cars can be middling investments, and occasionally you get dumb lucky. Lots more fun than a stack of stock certificates too. I figure my Spitfire has been about on-par with a mutual fund over the 25+ years I have had it, and it’s been a heck of a lot of fun.

What people pay for things, especially in a completely free market like BaT, is literally the absolute assessment of value. If someone pays what someone else asks, then the price makes sense. What we think is irrelevant.

Just for fun:

I can get personally not wanting a $110K DC2, but it seems kind of stupid to not understand why this DC2 is worth six figures to somebody. If you just want the driving experience you could literally buy a junk non Type R DC2, reinforce the shell and swap in all the requisite parts for a fraction of this. But obviously …

I’ve said this on here before but these low mile cars don’t get driven much not for the awful reasons we think. It usually because it’s from a collection. And by collection I mean some one with a ton of cars. If you have thirty cars it’s very hard to put a ton of miles on any of them. Also if you own thirty cars you…

The person shelling out 6 figures for a pristine Integra Type-R probably also has an S2000 or other sporty Honda. Even if they don’t, the only thing that matters is this ITR is very special to them, for whatever reason. There are very few people with that kind of money and a taste for rare factory specials.

Good luck finding a pre-1999 Celica GT-S in good condition, they were never considered as desirable as the Integra and most have not been maintained well. That said, I have a soft spot for the T200 (1994-1999) so I get excited whenever I see one in the wild.

Here you go Acura, this is the one people want. It has 2 doors, 4 little headlights, is small, low, is recognizable as a Honda but not 100% the same, and looks fun even while parked.

If it was that old, the roads now would be much better . . . except we’re talking about Rhode Island, so maybe not.

I was thinking someone from the DMV or a law maker got stuck behind one getting onto a highway and got pissed off about it.

The thing is, somebody importing a childhood dream car was never likely to buy a new car in the first place as their second car. There is nothing currently sold or which has been sold in America which can take the place of a Mazda Autozam AZ-1 or Honda Beat, for example.

he was told that his kei cars are unsafe

The plausible but infuriating explanation from either The Drive or a linked article is that the DMV Commissar’s trade association has declared a fatwa against Kei cars and other fun JDM stuff and the appatchiks are trying to gain clout by ridding the roads of the evil Kei cars.

If the antique car is old enough, the road it was designed for isn’t the road now used either.

And yet this is totally fine.

It’s Rhode Island - someone in the DMV or state government is on the take and being pressured by new car dealers or some other contributor to do this. Or the Mafia are involved.

I’m going to bet that my 71 Camaro is more of a risk than the average kei car, but I’m sure RI authorities won’t ban cars like it. 

Rhode Island must be a utopia if the state can devote time and resources to hounding all 5 of the Kei car owners in the state.

What about my ‘70 MGB? Is it safer than a JDM car?

“miniature motor vehicles”, like they think they are those toys the shriners drive. Obviously some small dicked GOPper in the state’s DMV office is worried that they are not big and manly enough, thus making their tiny dick shrivel up by proxy.

This would seem to have implications for people with classic cars from anywhere, yes? If a car doesn’t meet safety standards for American roadways even though it’s old enough to be classified as an antique, then if this goes unchallenged, theoretically, RI could invalidate registrations on older vehicles that don’t…