V12 Zag For Sale
Discussion
Fascinated to see what this sells for
https://www.classicdriver.com/en/car/aston-martin/...
They actually only made around 50 or so cars if I understand correctly, which as a result of the high price, have mostly barely been driven or ever seen on the road, with a handful of noticeable exceptions - this one is single owner, less than 1,000 miles in nearer 3 years than 2
So it could hold it's price better than if the full 150 then revised 100 unit limits had been fulfilled. Having said that, whereas the GT12 is very sensibly priced and will probably sell at a premium, this was so ludicrously over priced at £400k I'm struggling to imagine the owner won't have to sell at a loss.....much as I love the Zag, I simply don't value at that level but then again, as someone who puts plenty of miles on my cars, I'm not really the target market !
https://www.classicdriver.com/en/car/aston-martin/...
They actually only made around 50 or so cars if I understand correctly, which as a result of the high price, have mostly barely been driven or ever seen on the road, with a handful of noticeable exceptions - this one is single owner, less than 1,000 miles in nearer 3 years than 2
So it could hold it's price better than if the full 150 then revised 100 unit limits had been fulfilled. Having said that, whereas the GT12 is very sensibly priced and will probably sell at a premium, this was so ludicrously over priced at £400k I'm struggling to imagine the owner won't have to sell at a loss.....much as I love the Zag, I simply don't value at that level but then again, as someone who puts plenty of miles on my cars, I'm not really the target market !
I still have a copy of the contract somewhere, from when I was in the running (I had my name down before the price was confirmed or perhaps more accurately, from when I was told the price would be rather to different to the eventual price)
What's fascinating is that whilst it looks far more different to the donor car than GT12 does to it's donor car, in actual fact, there is more cost/mechanical difference between GT12 and V12VS than Zag has to V12V - both cars have unique carbon fibre body panels and once they are unique, it's the same cost to make whether they look very different (like Zag) or marginally different (like GT12)
Zag has some bespoke upholstery. GT12 has wider track, bespoke exhaust, etc, etc - in production terms, GT12 will cost the factory more to make over & above a V12VS than Zag did over V12V. Yet GT12 costs £250k, Zag £400k - I'd argue Zag was at least £150k overpriced and should have cost 200 - £225k whilst arguably, GT12 could have been priced at £50k more i.e. £300k
Meanwhile going back to the contract, they expected to sell out VERY quickly. Instead, they were selling the car for a good 18 months (and by selling I mean taking orders) past the point they hoped to close the books by, hawking it round every show imaginable. They announced a reduced target (sorry maximum) of 100 but still didn't get close to selling out. Whether the exact number was 50 something or 60 something I'm not sure, but I'm led to believe it was that kind of area
It's still a stunning car and rather than seeing the low sales as meaning it's worth less, ironically IMO it helps value now as it's even rarer than it might have been. However the intention was actually to do something similar to GT12 with Zag - increase performance, make it a little rawer, etc but the project never materialised into the original plans. Unfortunately someone forgot to tell them to drop the price when the plans were scaled back :-)
What's fascinating is that whilst it looks far more different to the donor car than GT12 does to it's donor car, in actual fact, there is more cost/mechanical difference between GT12 and V12VS than Zag has to V12V - both cars have unique carbon fibre body panels and once they are unique, it's the same cost to make whether they look very different (like Zag) or marginally different (like GT12)
Zag has some bespoke upholstery. GT12 has wider track, bespoke exhaust, etc, etc - in production terms, GT12 will cost the factory more to make over & above a V12VS than Zag did over V12V. Yet GT12 costs £250k, Zag £400k - I'd argue Zag was at least £150k overpriced and should have cost 200 - £225k whilst arguably, GT12 could have been priced at £50k more i.e. £300k
Meanwhile going back to the contract, they expected to sell out VERY quickly. Instead, they were selling the car for a good 18 months (and by selling I mean taking orders) past the point they hoped to close the books by, hawking it round every show imaginable. They announced a reduced target (sorry maximum) of 100 but still didn't get close to selling out. Whether the exact number was 50 something or 60 something I'm not sure, but I'm led to believe it was that kind of area
It's still a stunning car and rather than seeing the low sales as meaning it's worth less, ironically IMO it helps value now as it's even rarer than it might have been. However the intention was actually to do something similar to GT12 with Zag - increase performance, make it a little rawer, etc but the project never materialised into the original plans. Unfortunately someone forgot to tell them to drop the price when the plans were scaled back :-)
Edited by jonby on Wednesday 1st July 16:12
CPBRI said:
The original price made little sense to me, but I think that is a great looking car!
Agree. Incidentally worth noting that DB4 GT Zagato didn't sell well initially, hence them not making as many as planned. Decades later, the Sanction 2 & 3 models were made using previously unused chassis numbers, such was the demand/hype/price. Gassing Station | Aston Martin | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff