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The s12 is a future classic , no doubt about it , i know full well that the s12 i sold flexxx is worth much more than £650 , the reason i sold it was simple , this time next week the garage it lived in will be no more .i didn't have time or space to hang on to it , i ent hard up for cash and i'm glad its gone to flexxx , he appreciates it and can give it much more time than i can and if he decides to sell it in a few years when all the scabby high milers have died i'm sure he will make a mint
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this is my third silvia and i am glad to say it will stay with me for as long as i live i will start a new tradition it will know become a family hierloom (i think thas how you spell it)lol
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i think the cars of yesteryear have loads more charactor than cars built these day, everything now looks the bloody same
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i said the same thing to ian7v that the s12 has character compare to other cars on the scene nowadays as nowadays all cars not only look the same but are roughly the same car just in different bodies and it all a bit too boring where as the lucky residents arund the world got the full monty having their pick at models that we dont get
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I would value any et s12 in good condition with tax and mot at being worth about £950-£1500 .Full tax and mot on a car to me is worth £500.
I will be interested to see how things stand in about 8 years time
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I think the biggest problem for S12 values at the moment is S13 values! You can pick up an S13 for under a grand and there just don't seem to be many people out there willing to pay the same or more for an S12 when they can get an S13 instead
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The first thing everyone needs to realise is that S12's aren't rare. A rare car is one you never ever see around. Only 6 months ago I saw a white S12 parked outside a house 20 doors down the road from mine. A rare car is one where you struggle to get parts for. And I mean REALLY struggle. If you owned a Delorean and someone twatted the car, you really would be in the shit. But with an S12, you could easily find the parts. A rare car is one where you need to wait a few months to see another one for sale. When my 1st S12 was written off, it took me about 3 days to find another one.
Thats why I'm storing parts for my Datsun. I know that if someone smashed the rear screen I'd be proper fubared. There's only 5 or so registered in the UK compared to 600 registered s12's. I struggled for ages to sell my FJ20 to the point where I could only consider scrapping it and keeping the engine. Luckily that didnt happen. Now for some statistics: There's 93,000 square miles in the UK. 600 taxed S12's. Thats one every 155 square mile. That means on average there is a registered S12 12.5 miles away from you (on average). Now naturally you won't find an S12 up the top of Ben Nevis or any other sparsly populated area, so I think it would be safe to assume that we could halve that, and say where ever you are in the UK there will be an S12 parked up in a road approx 6 miles from you. This excludes the untaxed S12's as well. There's prob another 600 untaxed. The S12 won't ever reach the value of the AE86. Never ever. The drifting scene is quite a poncy fashionable scene, where all the drifters want to be seen with the biggest handbrakes ![]() There's huge demand for the AE86, all because its 'the' car for a drifter to own. I can see why the AE86 was used in the 90's for drifting. It was light, had a nice revvy responsive engine and has an exellent LSD. I've been in a completely standard one and it was stripped. It was underpowered but managed the drifts really well considering. I would never own one though. Unfortunatley the S12 hasn't a very responsive revvy engine as standard, it isn't light and nimble and don't have the LSD. ![]() If you look at equities. The price of a stock changes due to the balance of supply and demand. If there is a huge demand in comparison to the number of items for sale, then the price will increase as well. If there isn't much demand in comparison, then someone will just have to sell their equities at the lower market rate, or wait for the demand to increase. Just like an S12. The price of the S12 is completely dependant on the demand for one. Which unfortunately isn't huge. Look at Gripo trying to sell his car. If he was selling that car for the price he wants for it now say 18 months ago, I would have bought it outright. Don't know if its sold now though. I would have expected it to sell very quick. Now before everyone starts trying to flame me etc etc for dissing S12's and saying their worth nothing bla bla bla, I'm not. I haven't even mentioned the S13. I'm purely being realistic and talking completely from experience. It would be great if the S12 would increase in value, maybe it will a little but its not going to be material. |
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Im so happy with my S12, i belive it has character,its better than any of the boring new cars that all look the same and sound the same. You can do so much stuff to them with not much money.
People dont seem to appreciate them which is a shame, im 21 and mines going to be with me until it dies and unrepairable which should be after i die lol ![]()
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From what I've seen here in the States, the S13 has posed a problem for the S12. But in the past 3 months, I've seen more S12s on the road than in the past 2.5 years all together (not including the past 3 months). That and the average price of a S12 has gone up about $1,000 than it was last year or so. I think they will continue to go up in price, but until there is aftermarket for them or one of them gets put in a tv show or a high profile magazine, I dont think they'll ever get as much recognition as they deserve.
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mine had a full feature in the jap performace mag mate.i think it was issue 11,the cover page was a black gtir and the title was nitrous'ed nissans.
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