Couldn't agree more. The more publicity we get the better!

Boooooooooo what about the non-turbo !

Well enough said on the non turbo lol.

It must be at no 11

I challenge you to a dual at dawn sir

Have your man and a pair of side arms at the ready

Cannot believe as good as they are that an MX5 would be an investment - how many gazillions of them have been made?!

A fair point, but so many have been ruined.. you don't see many very good examples left anymore..

As for numbers, how many vw beetles were made? In 15 years time the early mk1 mx5s still left will be nearly 40 years old!

I think high volume production helps make something unexpected a classic because:

a) There are so many of them the vast majority of owners will never invest in serious repairs once the car gets older. It will just get towed off to the scrappy.

b) There's more people who had one when they were younger, or whose dad had one, or a friend, or whatever and who now have disposable income and fond memories of the car.

c) Large runs should, in theory at least, help parts supply. Making them easier classics to look after.

Twenty years ago I was a big fan of Capris and you could, quite literally, pick up a copy of Autotrader and find dozens of the things for under a grand, even including the 2.8i. Now there's nothing worth having under £5k, and they're not even particularly good cars, in an objective sense. Most of them are under-powered, they handle like a drunk pig on a tea-trolley, they've nearly always got tin-worm, they drink petrol and they're more than a bit plastic-fantastic inside.

The same sort of thing is true for Cortinas, Mk I and II Escorts, even the Fiesta. Huge production numbers haven't done their current day values any harm at all.

And the joke with fiestas is that their owners are buying fiesta based kit cars to salvage bits from...