My favourite Toyota, 2000GT Options

[S8S8]

I know the 6GC is a nice looking car, but I doubt Toyota will ever build another car as beautiful as the 2000GT.

Anyone with a lazy $650k might want to look at this one...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Toyota-2000...677175812#v4-32

[yarik83]

I would hope that sales price is wrong. I just dont see 650 grand in it. Heck rare ferraris go for a million but they are highly desired. If I had to guesss... true value of this vehicle is between 65K (if it is in "ok/decent condition)-300K (if it is immaculate and numbers matching)

[S8S8]

I would hope that sales price is wrong. I just dont see 650 grand in it. Heck rare ferraris go for a million but they are highly desired. If I had to guesss... true value of this vehicle is between 65K (if it is in "ok/decent condition)-300K (if it is immaculate and numbers matching)

If I could get one for $65k it would be sitting in my garage right now! $650k is certainly high, but this is a very original and well looked after example.

Here's some further info I dug up:

With so few in existence, there's not a lot of auction history for the car. And yet, what records there are show a steady increase in price over the past five years. In May 2006, a 2000GT sold for the equivalent of $210,000 at auction in Australia, doubling its pre-sale estimates. Two months later, another 2000GT brought $226,000 at auction in France. And the upward trend seems to be accelerating. Last fall, a German dealer advertised one example for $400,000; at this moment, one U.S. dealer has a 46,000-mile coupe for sale with an asking price of $495,000.

"Right now, they're well ahead of [the mid-2009 sales figures]. An average car is in the $325,000 to $400,000 range," said Bob Tkacik, who, with his partner Peter Starr, operates Maine Line Exotics, specializing in Toyota's GT since the mid-1970s. Bob believes the sudden leap in prices after a long plateau reflects the fact that serious collectors have discovered the model and decided that it deserves a place in their core collections next to their Lamborghini Miuras and Ferrari 288 GTOs.

Such a nice car.