As the title suggests can anyone explain why the impreza wrx sti is so expensive, when I bought my impreza a couple years ago the 2.0l STI was around 8k for a decent one but now they are on autotrader for pretty crazy money with a decent one going for ~12k im sure some people have priced it too high as I saw a stock silver one going for 16.5k surely thats too much?

 

Supply and demand. Simple as that.

 

They have definitely gone up in price recently seen some clowns wanting 8k for a 300bhp wrx on Facebook

 

trouble is they are getting it for them lol so just goes to show they are all on the rise ,, once a iconic car becomes a certain Age people will start being willing to pay a premium for what they concider a nice example

escorts went the same way ,, once it was only the Mexico or rs2000s that made the good money now any clean shell makes silly money even if it is a 1.1 lol

 

If you think impreza's are going up, you should check out how much Skyline R32, R33 and R34's have gone up. It maybe to do with how engine regs are tightening up around the world, Ford stopped making the RS as they didn't feel it was economically possible to develop a new engine that met the new emission regs and still produced the same power. It seems older petrol engined cars that produce a lot of power are on the rise.

 

It makes me think how much is mine worth If a 300bhp wrx is going for that how much will a 426bhp wrx go for, not that I could sell mine

 

thats the weird thing at the mo ,, a standard wrx will make just as much money as a modified one due to the amount of people out there now who are looking for standard cars to either put away or to just show off with lol

nearly all the scoobs iv sold recently have been due to the fact they are very standard , any mods on them have been asked to be swapped back ,,so the market has shifted slightly from poeple wanting to save money on moddifed scoobs to ones who just want it to be untouched and are willing to pay extra to have it like it

 

lucky mines going no where

 

you still got the same one from years back?

 

yeah had her 8 1/2 years now mate 6 speed going in soon

 

jdm import prices have gone through the roof , a 11250£ car will now be around 15k £ , apparent reason is not brexit or exchange rates , car auction prices in japan have gone up , good for selling not good for buying

 

Thanks for your input everyone seems like a lot of reasonble reasons why they are going up so it sounds like a good investment so ill improve my investment by buying a link ecu enginetuner sent me a very tempting offer for the ecu and flex fuel kit

 

The US are allowed to import many of the 90's JDM classics now also, they have their 25 year rule, this will keep prices rising.

 

It's not just Impreza's, it's not just classic/collectable cars... we're in the biggest speculative asset price bubble the world has ever seen thanks to epic levels of financialisaton, zero interest rates, endless money printing and cheap n' easy debt.

Pretty much anything and everything that can even vaguely be described as an ''asset class'' has seen it's ''value'' reach record highs in recent years with all the post-2008 QE sloshing around in the financial system .