Used Surf price at all time high

[woodwarm]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1989-TOYOT...item2a4e5b2f05




Must be the paint job

[anesto63]

cant be worth that without mot !! it seems crazy for the condition

[andyverran]

According to the howmanyleft site there are only 2 from 1989...so if you want one this is it!

[shokenore]

According to the howmanylet site there are only 2 from 1989...so if you want one this is it!

?

[andyverran]

?

howmanyleft.co.uk/

Look under hilux, then Surf TD

[shokenore]

Blimey

Really didn't realise that they were that rare!!!




I feel quite special

having the last of something that is

[andyverran]

Surprising isn't it. There's a degree of error caused by how these were registered at import, but never the less they are getting thin on the ground.

As I posted in another thread, we are down to less than 925 Surfs (272 are Gen 3 and later) plus another 268 SORN (so 921 Gen2) and around another 666 4Runners...that's the lot.

If you've got a 2.4 it looks like 300 ish of those left, so genuinely rare now.

we appear to be loosing around 200-300 a year...if you include 4Runners that is..

On the front page of this forum there is a date for most users ever online...June 2009. We've lost half the cars since that date.

[Lewd Lux Lover]

imho howmanyleft should be taken with about a fist full of salt.

I think the price of surfs will start to seriously go up in the next few months though. They are going up in price in japan as exports due to new emerging nations buying them (myanmar mainly) so they will dry up as a newly imported vehicle.. That means whats here is all that here.... rarety... . people that want one will have to persuade a current owner to part with it... cash money.

Not that i want to sell it now I have it...

[andyverran]

imho howmanyleft should be taken with about a fist full of salt.

Absolutely!

Errors aside though, the down trend should be correct since the errors will have been present on average across all data.

[shokenore]

Very interesting, I wonder if it is this the the average percentage wise of all cars making this the norm or if these are a special exception and there is a common deciding factor?

[andyverran]

Very interesting, I wonder if it is this the the average percentage wise of all cars making this the norm or if these are a special exception and there is a common deciding factor?

I think I need a translation?

(no offence fella)

...giving it some though, are you asking whether the Surf is a special case in some way?

In which case I would say not, I had a look at "Ford Escorts", several generations over 30 years.. at the start of data in howmanyleft (2001 I think) there were 1.2 million, now more like 50,000..same sort of thing for Land Rovers...much easier trend to see in Surfs though as they were only imported in any numbers for a very short period (2001 - 2007).

With manufacture model life in Europe of around 6 years (8 years for the rest of the world) and working life for most of them is less than 20 years (I have a feeling average life of a car is only 8-10 years - I need to check that) it would make sense the're almost extinct.

http://www.statista.com/statistics/2...nited-kingdom/

Average age of a car has risen from 6.93 years to 7.95...

EDIT: SMMT says average age of scrapping is 13.2 years

[anesto63]

bit like rocking horse poo!!

[shokenore]

Russian standard

babel fish is drunk


So nothing out of the norm then just that these are our babies.

[andyverran]

Russian standard

babel fish is drunk


So nothing out of the norm then just that these are our babies.

I recon so, soon to be a memory like my first escort or the 88" V8 I had in my 20's

[shokenore]

MKii escort two door with a 2.0 happy days

series 2 pick up with a v8 and fairey overdrive
bondbug lol