shinkas are wait and see hello, 2000 outta like ? thats rare, holding value if kept in original shinka parts.

Sorry Zumn, wrong again...Shinkas are priced relatively the same as every other used 8. As a matter of fact there is an '06 Shinka at my dealership with less 15k miles and in near mint condition and it's only priced at $21k.

Just to clear it up, only 1,357 were produced due to the plant catching fire and production being stopped.

theres actually only




1356 then.....ahem...

^^must have totaled it........

....well... my first one.......

then i searched the 7 seas for another 1 and i did... same color.. and same mileage it would have been...


and got it for several thousands cheaper... as if i was continuing payment on the old one.....



creeeeeepppyyyy

man you got lucky. glad it worked out in the end!!!

yeahhhh..ill be buying a 7 soon for a track car...


............be worried. hahahahahahhaa j/k

zumn, i hate to tell you but you're incorrect (and I8U is right). shinkas hold their value no more than others and in fact, they depreciate more b/c they come in line with the average 8 so you lose that extra that was paid for the novelty. don't get me wrong, i really like the black cherry and copper red but they aren't commanding a premium just b/c they are shinkas.

as time passes there isn't a big difference in price between a sport and GT or even GT and shinka.

as the years go by the limited models will command a slight premium over the regular line. i've seen this for years with the RX-7 lineup. the 79 Limited, which was restricted to 3000 units will command a little more of a premium over a regular 79 S or GS with similar mileage and condition because of its limited availability. the 80 Leather Sport was another wich was restricted to 2500 units, as was the 83 Limited Edition of which 5000 units were produced. we saw a limited model again in 1988 with 1500 of the 10th Anniversary RX-7 being produced. they command more than a standard TII. what holds a limited production car's value is originality. non modified limited productin cars will hold their value, but one has to wait a few years or so.. wait until mazda stops producing the RX-8, then the prices for the limited models liek the Shinkas and the R3's will be higher.

Yeah, I giggled a bit too.

So I'm curious, if only 1,357 2005 Shinka's made it off the line, how many of those are 6spd manual? I was the only '05 Shinka in Maryland I knew about for a while, but then I actually saw another one in my office parking lot. I was absolutely floored. What are the chances?

so basically after all the jokes and comments,,,facts are the shinka and my car are very similar as it comes wht all of that stuff....PS no limited edition hold more value, cars that are not good on gas, burn oil and are 2 seaters at the best of times cater to a small market segment to boot they depreciate faster that a lada....

anyone in the car biz that isnt a weasel will tell you the same thing....lol

Something like this?

http://www.autotrader.com/fyc/vdp.js...e=&cardist=381

I got a chubby looking at the specs.

...and then softened up like grandma walked in on you jerkin' it? The price he's trying to fetch is crazy. Just like people I'm trying to buy 8s from who think adding some shitty wheels adds thousands of dollars to the resale.

^ yes, the price is ridiculous. That's not the point. Are you telling me you wouldn't like to have a 20B under the hood? Do you realize what it costs to do that?

If you were to buy a good FD and do a 20B conversion on it, you would spend about what he's asking.

It's not rare. It's just another RX8 with a few different minor things here and there that dont matter.

i should say an FC....not an fd.

i disagree. you can grab a clean FD for under 10 easily. no 20B is putting you at the price he's asking unless it comes quad-turbo with a flux capacitor

Over time limited edition will hold slightly more value. Slightly. When we are talking about a car that holds so little of it's value anyway it doesn't really matter. The RX-8 doesn't "burn" oil, it uses it in normal operation, and it isn't a 2-seater either, it's depreciation has a lot more to do with the motor and people's complete lack of understanding than anything else.

As far as the RX-7 comments below... You will not get a "clean" FD for under 10k. The car is old enough that getting a clean one is way harder than you might think. I've been tempted to buy one for a while now and have resisted because there are so many problems that don't show up easily on first inspection. A 20B swap is not going to cost you less than 10k either, not to mention the porting, turbos, shocks etc the guy has on that car. The price he is asking isn't reasonable because people won't pay that much for that car. That doesn't mean he hasn't thrown a hell of a lot more into the car. Modifying a car generally means spending a ton of money to trash your resale value. One of the reasons I don't give a rats *** about modifying my RX-8 is the resale of the RX-8 (Shinka or not) is crap anyway.

Shinka'd!!!!

That's because mods aren't really worth the money put into them, not in resale value. But still. Yes you can get a clean FD for not too much. And then to do a 20B conversion you're looking at at least what, 30-40k?

No, it's [2005 Shinka] not rare per se, and the added niceties are relatively minor (pretty much just 'grand touring' options). However, the Black Cherry Mica paint, and the Parchment Leather interior did matter to me, as they also seem to to allot of folks who comment on it. I also liked getting those GT options in one package.

I never deluded myself that it would hold any appreciable value over any other comparable model in the timeframe I intend to keep it (until the 16X based vehicle is available).

To each their own.

The Shinkas and 40th Ed. are special, and that would add value for a collector. But no one is collecting 8s. It's not a collector's car. So it doesn't mean much for resale.