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StickyMittens

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Hi!

Today you can almost certainly buy a Defender and sell it a few years later and not loose any money. Which is crazy. I'm curious, do any of you think that the Disco 4 will ever achieve classic status in the future?

The Discovery 4 would be an interesting car for a EV conversion, maybe they will be sought after in the future?
 
StickyMittens said:
The Discovery 4 would be an interesting car for a EV conversion, maybe they will be sought after in the future?
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Unfortunately the D4 is far too heavy to be considered a suitable candidate for an EV conversion, at least not one with a practical range.
Also the huge amount of electronic integration would make it an absolute nightmare to get to work correctly, if there's no engine ECM to communicate the correct data to the rest of the vehicle's ECMs.

Also the D4 unlikely to be a future classic.
The vehicles listed above are, and the Freelander 1 is also becoming a bit of a classic, so put your money into a good one of those, and it's almost certainly going to go up in value. ;)
 
Nodge68 said:
Unfortunately the D4 is far too heavy to be considered a suitable candidate for an EV conversion, at least not one with a practical range.
Also the huge amount of electronic integration would make it an absolute nightmare to get to work correctly, if there's no engine ECM to communicate the correct data to the rest of the vehicle's ECMs.

Also the D4 unlikely to be a future classic.
The vehicles listed above are, and the Freelander 1 is also becoming a bit of a classic, so put your money into a good one of those, and it's almost certainly going to go up in value. ;)
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... and good D1s and D2s are going up in value. They also look more distinctly different to LR vehicles that followed them. So they will become classics.
 
I think of a classic as one which was considered the best of its type in its own time. And remains so. Is the D4 thought of as the best of its type now? If not it will never be a classic IMHO.
 
Blimey, they even list a D3 as a classic, however like many others I consider classics like an E type Jag etc

plus I always thought a vehicle needed to be at least 20 -25 x years old to be considered a classic

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https://services.totalenergies.uk/when-does-car-become-classic

https://www.gov.uk/hmrc-internal-manuals/employment-income-manual/eim24400

Typically, how old is a classic car?
The age of classic cars can vary considerably, and there are several definitions regarding how old a car must be before it becomes a classic.

HMRC defines classics as being over 15 years old with a list price of at least £15,000, but to be tax exempt, the classic must be at least 40 years old. The Antique Automobile Club of America notes classics must be older than 25 years (with cars over 45 years old known as antiques), whereas insurance providers have a wide range of classifications.

As such, answering how hold classic cars are is an imperfect art, although generally, a classic can be any age as long as it’s older than the majority of cars on the road, was built after 1946 (prior to that, a car is in vintage territory), is no longer in production and has been deemed a classic by the motoring community.
 
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I think a lot of classics are what people aspired to when they were young but could not afford, now they are old they see the old heaps through rose tinted specs.
Discos never really seem to hit the spot, even the first D1 are not valuable.
 
"Classic" cars are whatever generation are reaching the kids gone/good salary phase.... When I was a twenty year old, classic cars were the old ones, Austin 7's etc.. The ones the older generation wanted but couldnt afford. Thats why the current mid life crisis brigade, me included, are pushing the price of Escort mk1, and Cosworths up through the roof....
 
I was at the NEC Classic Car Show last weekend, most old cars in nice condition have a classic following, even Marinas, Allegros, Vivas etc. A nice D4 is desirable today if you're brave enough, so I reckon in 10/20 years a tidy corrosion free example will definitely attain classic status but may never be worth megabucks.
 
D2 is the last of the easy repair ones.

D3 D4 MAY get there if fully working, but it will be interesting to see what happens with electronics in the future, will old blown ECUs be getting rebuilt?

If the electronic repairs are viable it could happen.
 
Well it looks like my 1999 D2 is a classic, as its 22 years old, soon to be 23, and my Morris Minor 1000, at 1967 is a Tax/Mot exempt, but still needs a lot of work, and half a floor, on the passenger side, front to rear, but as everything is still available either new or used it making steady progress
 
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