RS 500 Investment

[uncle tez]

Just spotted this on Ebay and was wondering if it would be a good investment given the crazy money old Fords go for these days. Focus RS 500 number 1.
Its not cheap at £45K but we've seen sierra rs500 for silly money so surely number 1 would be the one to have ?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ford-Focus-RS-500-Produc...

[Dave Hedgehog]

i can not see it holding its money when the bubble bursts, nice car and all but no historic value apart from what it is

i would buy a real RS500 for that money, which has a huge heritage in motorsport

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/f...

[Butter Face]

I got offered one 5 years ago for £14k. Should have taken their hand off.

[uncle tez]

Dave Hedgehog said:

i can not see it holding its money when the bubble bursts, nice car and all but no historic value apart from what it is

i would buy a real RS500 for that money, which has a huge heritage in motorsport

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/f...

Now that is nice and cheaper too.

[oobster]

uncle tez said:

Dave Hedgehog said:

i can not see it holding its money when the bubble bursts, nice car and all but no historic value apart from what it is

i would buy a real RS500 for that money, which has a huge heritage in motorsport

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/f...

Now that is nice and cheaper too.

It is indeed nice. The seller perhaps less so though.

[itz_baseline]

Dave Hedgehog said:

i can not see it holding its money when the bubble bursts, nice car and all but no historic value apart from what it is

i would buy a real RS500 for that money, which has a huge heritage in motorsport

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/f...

Very nice. My money would go on this. Interesting as well, as I thought the majority of them were white but looks like 80% of them were black.

[Sir Bagalot]

Is his collection getting scaled back? Didn't he sell other cars within the collection too?

[f1nn]

although I am not a particular fan of the mk2 Focus RS, it will go up in value eventually, most RS cars do.

However, this car is arguably too expensive to start with, and don't forget it has taken the Sierras 27 years to get where they are today. I don't feel the focus will get anywhere near these levels.

Do you wan't to have 45k tied up in a focus for the best part of 3 decades, in the hope that you will make a couple of quid?

I f you do you are a braver man than I, the focus has no real competition heritage, no working mans super car romance IMO, it's just a competent hot hatch.

[David87]

I don't think it's a particularly good investment, to be honest: the Focus RS500 is nothing like as special as the Sierra RS500 was and has none of the heritage.

That said, the current values of even the regular Mk2 Focus RS are rather steep!

[Andyjc86]

I have a customer with an ST 500. His is number 1/500. His brother also has one, and that's 1/500 too. He seams to think they are all 1/500?? Is that correct or has someone been playing around with the plates? Seen both and the plates look genuine.

[daydotz]

Andyjc86 said:

I have a customer with an ST 500. His is number 1/500. His brother also has one, and that's 1/500 too. He seams to think they are all 1/500?? Is that correct or has someone been playing around with the plates? Seen both and the plates look genuine.

they werent given invidial build numbers