Invest in a Raptor?

[Yukon Joe]

Is the Raptor a good investment? Found a rare molten orange, loaded, with only 15k on it. It is a 2010 street queen with no mods. Original sticker was $51K, I believe... they are asking too much, but at the right price, can it go up in value?

Yukon Joe

 

[MTUH3]

If you can afford 2, I would make the current one a hell uv a beast and use the Molten Orange one for DD duty. I always regret not having another H3 in the driveway that was un modded and good as a DD. The current one is is being worked one / updated too often

 

[Grunzen]

Near term, not a chance. Long term who knows. A whole lot of factors would come into play. I would look up prices on older SVO/SVT products(80's/90's) to get an idea on how they hold there value and or resell now. The Raptor has a lot going for it like low production numbers overall but it isn't on a Ford GT level in numbers or exclusivity. Though it definitely doesn't seem to lose as much value rolling off the lot.

 

[Stingray23]

I think if Ford were to stop making them tomorrow and did not bring it back for a future F150, it would hold its value. It will always have a cult following which would help with that respect.

 

[FreightTerrain]

molten orange '10 was what got me in all this trouble in the first place. saw it on the lot a few months ago and stopped to check it out. 10k miles. asking 42 and change. not sure what they got for it but it sold couple weeks later

 

[Allied Offroad]

wtf..... your avatar is f'ing rediculous R2R

 

[Icecobra]

As far as an investment , A Raptor is a bad idea, it will only hold value, but its a perishable menaing they dont stay perfect without a ton of care. By stock in VHC or AMRN those are investments, and short term ones.... If you want a long term investment think about things that are comodities.... Oil futures, Natural gas futures... But a vehicle is a poor investment on an average especially in todays market on something thats not a limited edition...

 

[Allied Offroad]

my personal opinion is that no modern vehicle will ever be a collector car. Furthermore, I've never seen an offroad vehicle (technically the Raptor is an offroad vehicle, believe it or not guys, haha!) as a collector car, except perhaps a 60-70's bronco, but i feel those guys were high when asking some of those prices.

 

[NickPic83]

i think it will not depreciate fast but it would be a long time before its ever worth more and thats if they stop making the raptor. the molten orange is a good color to have on too out of all of them tho. probably the rarest u could get

 

[Fred]

Is the Raptor a good investment? Found a rare molten orange, loaded, with only 15k on it. It is a 2010 street queen with no mods. Original sticker was $51K, I believe... they are asking too much, but at the right price, can it go up in value?

Yukon Joe

I like the idea...I would only consider it if you could flip it fairly fast for a nice return...remember you are tying up a significant amount of cash and taking a large risk...so I would want a return that would justify your risk..what that return would be, only you can determine...for me I would be somewhere around an APR of 20%+...

I have always considered vehicles as a depreciating assets...

Just my .02.

Fred