2003 2004 CSL Values

[Duck360198]

Originally Posted by Mike R

Because the European market seems to appreciate the significance of the CSL even more than the UK market does and places a higher value on it.

If you do a quick search on this forum, you will find links of LHD cars that have come up for sale and the prices they are asking are often 10-20% higher than the equivalent RHD cars. I think it is purely a case of supply and demand. There is a higher demand for LHD cars (due to more countries driving on the right than the left), and due to the limited production run of these cars (only 823 LHD / 535 RHD, where 422 came to the UK, so a glut of CSLs by comparison to the rest of the world), which means globally there were 936 cars to fighter over - obviously significantly less now that the car is in excess of ten years old where several would have been lost in accidents), so due to this scarcity you get one of two scenarios - when cars do come up for sale, they are either priced extremely high because (especially in Europe), where the cars have a bit of a cult following or if they are in a country that doesn't really know what one is (there was one from the middle-east recently that seemed to be priced very low), a bargain can be had.

I get the supply and demand, I get the more LHD drive vs RHD countries, and I've done my research to see how much more expensive the LHD cars are. If this was a mass produced car, I would get the larger price differences. But the fact that the car is such a low production car, I just can't believe the massive difference. The RHD car I want is 27% less expensive than the LHD car I've found...and the RHD car has 12k less miles! It's just insane to me. I mean honestly, for 27% less is it worth it to have a car spec'd exactly the way I want, but with the steering wheel on the "wrong" side!? I also look at it as an investment too. If it's 27% now, what will it be in 10 years? Just a tough car to gauge.