Tuscan V6

[jim3000s]

The January issue of Classic Cars magazine is suggesting that the value of a Tuscan V6 is now up to £30,000 for a good one, indicating an 82% rise.

[anonymous-user]

And I think that's what you would need to spend to get a good one. Exceptional ones will always cost more.

It's about time guides started to reflect TVR market values rather than having figures that mean nothing.

[Andrew Gray]

I agree with John a fresh properly restored example add 5k to that at least
With some vixens making 28k this year its in fairness still well below what the likes of the Lotus etc are getting and IMOP better cars.
Andrew

[RFC1]

Sounds about right at last. Although i don't recall seeing a V6 Tuscan for sale since i bought mine over 3 years ago.......?

Sandy.

[plasticpig72]

I'm happy with both TVR and Lotus

Alan

[GTRene]

not such fan of cabrio TVR's (although I've owned 2 in the past) but I love that M-series and that Lotus, great cars.

Edited by GTRene on Wednesday 31st January 23:20

[Moto]

RFC1 said:

Sounds about right at last. Although i don't recall seeing a V6 Tuscan for sale since i bought mine over 3 years ago.......?

Sandy.

This Tuscan came up in last couple of months.

https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C946083

Based on the ad, it looks a well sorted top end example at a realistic (imho) price. You couldn't buy one and do the work for less £'s. But it seems to still be for sale so I guess no buyers willing to part with this amount.

Again imho Vixens & Tuscan V6's sell well below what they should. But I guess it comes down to what someone will pay.

This Vixen came up a few months ago and again still seems to be for sale.

https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C917245

At £14k it seems under valued to me from the pictures but presumably no buyers.

I do think there are a lot of potential buyers who want a restoration project for bottom end money. Not so many want good useable, original cars or even top end rebuilt examples.

Moto

[Dollyman1850]

Moto said:

RFC1 said:

Sounds about right at last. Although i don't recall seeing a V6 Tuscan for sale since i bought mine over 3 years ago.......?

Sandy.

This Tuscan came up in last couple of months.

https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C946083

Based on the ad, it looks a well sorted top end example at a realistic (imho) price. You couldn't buy one and do the work for less £'s. But it seems to still be for sale so I guess no buyers willing to part with this amount.

Again imho Vixens & Tuscan V6's sell well below what they should. But I guess it comes down to what someone will pay.

This Vixen came up a few months ago and again still seems to be for sale.

https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C917245

At £14k it seems under valued to me from the pictures but presumably no buyers.

I do think there are a lot of potential buyers who want a restoration project for bottom end money. Not so many want good useable, original cars or even top end rebuilt examples.

Moto

The historic TVR Market is very slanted..

I suspect there are folk who can shell out money for a project and then invest the sums required over a 5 - 7 year period. There will also be a few who want to buy the very best.. But when you look at what else you can buy then the market becomes very limited... Its perhaps a sad reality that if you ask people outside of TVR circles about TVR then the knowledge is very limited..

When you show someone a lovely Tuscan V6 with a 40k price tag then show same person a beautiful low mileage T350 for £35k It gets harder and harder to see sense.. The market of pre 80's loving lunatics is very very small. as a result the market is very fickle.....

That leaves the thinly disguised basket cases in the middle...at the moment there is a movement who are trying to push the values of these cars up based on those previously sold....

Like I said some time in the past. the internet has been a boon to restorers and also a curse....everyone now thinks that their car is worth a fortune because they see what another one selling for.. In this day and age it seems the best thing to deal in is the scrap car.. something you can buy, not do anything with then sell it each time for 2k more because the value is dictated by the last sale!!

N.

[DavidY]

Dollyman1850 said:

When you show someone a lovely Tuscan V6 with a 40k price tag then show same person a beautiful low mileage T350 for £35k It gets harder and harder to see sense.. The market of pre 80's loving lunatics is very very small. as a result the market is very fickle.....

This has always been the case though

In the early/mid 90's TVRMs restored 3000S Turbo v then new Griffith 4.3, not too dissimilar prices

This effect happens with all car brands, but the strength of the classic market is driven by desirability, with no real period international competition history, TVR will always be at a disadvantage compared with other marques. But as you rightly say the market is small, but in a way I think that the TVR prices are driven by other marques, as people look at Aston Martins, Lotus, etc and say I can';t afford one of those, they then say what classic can I afford..... so as other marques rise, then TVR ride on the back.