Being such a masterpiece, I always wonder why the LFA didn’t do well when it first came out. Yet now you see them selling for damn near $1M. It’s like Van Gogh. No one appreciated the work of art until it was gone. But why?
Being such a masterpiece, I always wonder why the LFA didn’t do well when it first came out. Yet now you see them selling for damn near $1M. It’s like Van Gogh. No one appreciated the work of art until it was gone. But why?
The LFA is a good example of something Doug Demuro did a whole video about: enthusiast-targeted cars that enthusiasts actively dislike when they are first sold are weirdly the cars that will increase in value. This is especially true if the car in question is rare. The LFA checks all of these boxes.
Other examples he mentioned include the BMW “clownshoe” M Coupe, the Plymouth Superbird, the first Ford GT, the Porsche Carrera GT, the final version of the first gen Acura NSX, BMW 8 series etc, etc. People didn’t want any of those cars when they were actually for sale, all of them went on to become some of the most desirable collector cars today.
The Carrera GT is to me the strongest recent example. No one wanted them 18 years ago, now they’re seen as one of the greatest cars of all time.