[V8] Market prices on the rise

[Bastian Preindl]

Obviously people have the same pessimistic meaning of their own car in 
the US like they do have over here in Europe. I have fought maybe a 
thousand battles at audiv8.com in order to convince the people that the 
V8 has not a little less potential to become a (high-valued) classic 
like the URQ did or like a Super 70 or maybe a 100 Coupe. Even the Audi 
200 have maybe quadrupled the prices in the last, let's say, 5 years.

Realistically, it is impossible to get hold of a nearly original Audi 
200 20V below 15.000 USD (price converted), regardless of its mileage, 
and even then it's usually chipped for long and raped in one way or the 
other. The same for V8 in good conditions, not talking about rare extras 
or colours. You pay half the price for an A8 facelift in good 
confidition compared to a V8 in Germany. That's fact. And again, most of 
the cars on the market are not even worth the steel price...

In Austria, a fairly small country too, we've only 80 Audi V8 left being 
registered, and at least 80% of them are crap. Now guess how hard it is 
to get hold of a fairly good one. Not to think about GB or more exotic 
countries... the times are long gone where you could choose from a 
manifold of good, interesting and exciting V8 or 220V.

And, as sugar on top, an LWB V8 is more or less impossible to be found 
below 20k USD, and then you usually invest another 10 grands in order to 
get it in a really good condition. Finally the V8 is a classic - yippeee ;-)