Everyone loves to speculate over which of today’s vehicles will ultimately become a desirable vehicle down the road. And we have the latest list straight from the guys and gals at Hagerty.
The 2017 Future Collectable Cars list hosts a mix of high performance and niche vehicles on sale today, but three Chevrolet vehicles stand out as possible retirement funds in the future.
The 2017 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 landed on the number three spot thanks to its bonkers performance credentials. The Camaro ZL1 is also the most powerful Camaro to ever come from Chevrolet.
Landing at the number five spot is the 2017 C7 Corvette Grand Sport. It’s a no-brainer, sharing nostalgic cues with its 1963 and 1996 predecessors. Though, if there’s one to own, it would be the Corvette Grand Sport Collector Edition.
Finally, a surprise showing was the 2017 Chevrolet Colorado ZR2, which landed at number four. Hagerty cites Americans’ long love affair with pickup trucks as one factor, but the off-road capability the ZR2 houses piques interest as a future collectible. Hagerty states the final factor in its future collectability status will be production volume.
“All ten [vehicles] have that ‘it’ factor that makes them stand out from the crowd,” said McKeel Hagerty, CEO of Hagerty. “In some cases it’s power, in some cases it’s innovation or drivability, but all of them have the qualities that define a future classic.”
We’d add the 2017 Chevrolet SS as a potential collectible candidate, too, knowing this will be the performance sedan’s final year for production. Total units produced may also sit just below 10,000 over three model years.
Do you have any insight into future collectibles from GM? Sound off below.
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What ? No Redline editions?
haha nice!!
No because they will be sold in much greater numbers as they are cheaper affordable trim packaged.
The ZR2 is projected by GM is only going to sell at 5% of total production. Also the Corvettes will be low in volume.
You have to consider what the Redline is it is a trim package much like the many Camaro editions and the many Colorado special trim editions that have made a ton of money. They never claimed they were a SS or a performance model and most of the people who buy them will not care either.
To put the right context on the Redline it is much like the Denali a profit center.
There is low volume and little profit in a AWD Malibu at over $40K since Buick can hardly move the GS as it is with out large discounts.
Performance is not a profit center anymore. It cost much to make today’s cars into proper performance cars and then few buy them. Sad but the truth.
Boomers are getting older and the younger gens hold much less care or want to spend that much in large numbers.
I don’t like it either since I make my living in the performance sector but that is what it is.
Don’y get mad at GM for what people will not buy in volume what they used to buy years ago.
I am not sure if you missed the sarcasm or not. I get that cheap to make trim packages can make money. I am not looking at it from what makes GM money, but what I would like to be be able to buy from them as a consumer. I have purchased 15 new Chevrolets over the past 25 years (the most recent one being a 1LE Camaro in October of 2012) but right now they don’t have anything that fits the simple requirements of fun to drive and able to comfortably transport four people… except the SS sedan, which is out of range for price and not very usable year round in northern climates.
I don’t buy that there is no market for such a vehicle. Other manufacturers offer them. To name one Ford has performance variants of the Fiesta, Focus and Fusion. I recently drove a new Cruze hatch (slow), a 2.0T Malibu (transmission tuning kills the driving experience), and Impala (actually my favorite of the three but could be sharper handling). I was not left thinking, “I have to have one” after driving any of these. I grew up learning to despise the blue oval, but I like their product mix right now better than Chevrolet’s. I see young guys at autocrosses and even car shows driving other brands. I think there is a market for a more entry level performance car but if that day is passed at Chevrolet as you seem to think it has, it is a sad day.
I still won’t be able to bring myself to buy a stripe and wheels package.
Brother I am with you on the want you buy but we are in the minority.
But I understand the economics and while I don’t like it I have to deal with it.
Case in point. I wanted a Colorado that was special and done tight. I passed on the last one because it sucked. The new one was nice but not exciting or interesting.
Now I am on to the ZR2.
I am going to look to get one soon as they will make all we want but they will sell in small numbers. We are lucky to get this.
GM will have special models like this now and again but they will Be in small numbers for limited times and sticker for $40k or more.
GM has built fun to drive with the GM Performance models but so few purchased.
I still have my HHR SS and love to drive it. 300 HP is great but FWD sucks. If the stuffed a AWD system it would fix it but even fewer of the 10k people who bought one in the three years they made them would have purchased one.
It is a big balancing act anymore. Years ago you took a cheap Nova and slap in a cheap 327 then a SS emblem and instant performance model at a cheap price.
Today these cars are not cheap even in base form. Then to make them run and perform as the should it take a lot of engineering. Then you have to deal with the EOA and DOT crash test if you change the nose or fuel system. This adds up to a lot of money and a price few would pay. Then little money made.
The market is just not prime fir this kind of stuff unless it is a global product. This is why the RS is here as it it global and Chevy is not.
If Opel was doing better the OPC models would make a perfect global performance line for Buick and Holden With Opel and Vauxhall.
Sorry if I missed the sarcasm but it and just old fashion Belly aching appear do close at times in type.
Like I said I want what you do but the economic are just not right. Now with the added income and interest in a sportier looking car selling better they may try a SS again when the numbers are right.
Chevy us not going to fail with out a SS as the mist profitable volume companies sell little to no performance. That us telling of the market all in it self.
I would say the Chevy SS should be on the collectable list. Granted, four door cars are rarely popular collectables, but….. Low volume by itself, along with the Mopar’s Charger-300 pair, the last of its kind (a traditional, premium but not luxury, V8 powered rear drive larger, American style sedan). A car that was the norm as recently as the 1970’s, but dead today.
Though to be honest, today’s cars will be difficult to collect and restore in the future due to the fragile and quickly outdated electronics and software that control everything. Today’s cars get junked not due to rust on body panels and burned up engines, but electronics that aren’t fixable or replaceable. The automakers go out of their way to prevent people from modifying the controlling software so that doesn’t help either.
Unless a third party replacement electronics industry emerges (and doesn’t get stopped by the government or auto industry) in the coming decades, most of today’s cars will be paperweights when they become old. Once they have been driven 300,000 miles or so and the electronics are shot, they won’t be drivable anymore. And there won’t be used or new replacement parts like there are for most pre 1985-ish models. Just replacing broken and worn out LCD screens is going to be a major, expensive, hassle for most people.
You are right on new cars and restorations.
The cost to restore many of today’s cars will be more and more difficult. We are already seeing it with some already. Here are the issues.
Electronics are a problem to a point but not impossible to deal with. GM computers are all the same now and just need a flash. Sensors are shared etc. Now things like dashes and climate controls are the things that are an issues.
The real problem is plastic. The many plastic things inside a car get brittle and damaged with age. Few people reproduce many due to such small markets and the fact it would cost too much.
Same with Rubber seals. A t top gasket for a Fiero can go for well over $1,000 today if you can find a NOS one. They are rare and the demand is few since so few were made.
Cars like many AWD Turbo cars are very high in cost to repair.
Another factor is modifications. Today a Grand National in original trim is worth much since so few are left in original condition. Those that are modified are a mix of well done mod cars and some really trashed cars and many were run hard and put away wet.
The greatest challenge to the collector cars will be the high cost of restoration vs values and the low volumes of cars being made and little demand for parts outside a Camaro, Corvette, Truck and Mustang.
You can fix anything but is it worth the cost?
I am 1LE bias, but you could order the 2013-2015 ways with odd options. Some are full packages RS/SS full interior with nav, sunroof, heated seats. Others have zero options and some have odd options like a 1SS cloth interior, with Leather suede Recaro Z28 style seats (Yes front seats leather, back seat cloth), NPP the factory high performance exhaust like the Z06 with the valve. I think the 2014-2015 1LE 1SS with recaro’s and NPP will be one of the finds. There were less then 5000 1LE’s produced in total and less then 1600 1SS’s, Recaro’s didn’t come known option until late 2014. I have found less then 3% of 1SS 1LE had the recaros so your under under 100 produced. That is less then Z28 production and