Worth noting too that this tread has enjoyed an unusual amount of viewing activity. Using a “views per day” metric this topic leads all threads on the first 3 pages. That’s using quick math while scanning down the pages. Could it be this is actually one of more popular topics? Could be it that there is pent up demand as it were for this type of intel? Maybe I am just not in the know. Maybe this topic is a breach of site decorum. Again, not trying to be quarrelsome, just trying to understand the root cause of the variance.
1. Views per day is an
almost totally useless metric. One guy can come back and look at his own thread hundreds of times and generate those views, and in the past, that has happened. Sometimes thousands. It's also the prospect of drama that generates views on the internet.
2. It's not animus towards anyone, it's the topic.
3. Value threads in general:
Take as an example, the site you no longer visit, Rennlist. If you visit the water-cooled GT car section on Rennlist, it largely boils down to the same discussion over and over and over:
- People who do not have a GT car who will explain all the reasons that prices are too high, and will come down
- People who do have a GT car who believe the cars are rare, valuable, the market is stable or rising
Self-interest is largely going to dictate those discussions, and they will almost always be argumentative. You can also watch people flexibly move from one side of the argument to the other depending on whether they are buying or selling. 99% of the participants here own GTs, so you can assume assessments trend high.
More irritatingly, because it is such a fixation, it infects virtually all discussions. Go and try and say
anything about a 911R without it devolving into a discussion about how early buyers overpaid, how the Touring destroyed the value and is a better car, and various hypothesizing about the future of 911R values, much of which comes from people who (of course) do not own a 911R. I imagine this is not a great incentive to participate as a 911R owner, and I think it's fair to say "what is the value?" has tainted the 911R since inception and for the foreseeable future.
People here are largely not interested in the commodification of the car. Partially, this is because a great deal of people on this site have a level of exposure to people who developed and produced the car in ways the vast majority of members on the sites you mention do not. Subsequently, there is a great awareness that absolutely nobody involved with the program was invested in the outcome of "what will the GT be worth on the open market?"
At the same time, there is an ecosystem of people who have
only cared about what the GT is worth on the open market, which has often made the "what is the value of a GT currently" bit fatiguing. Institutionally, we do not care about those people here. This site is dedicated to the experience of owning a Ford GT. The price is only relative on two days - the day you buy and the day you sell.
3. It's also a largely unanswerable (with specificity) topic. See point 2 made by Xcentric. Or at least in my opinion, it's a topic that is so reasonably easy to assess based on a large amount of variables that it's not worth discussing. You can easily figure out what the market is within $10-20k just by looking around. Nobody is going to miss by $30k. 10k+/- will keep you waiting forever because it's constantly changing. The GT is not that rare and at any given time there are dozens for sale. If it's a car you like in the condition you like, there are deals to made. Always.
3. I also seriously, seriously question how much you read those other sites if that is your assessment. I do the same reading you do. People have been doxxed, photoshopped, had their personal lives and private information torn apart in public, and been called every expletive in the book on LamboPower, and it's been that way forever. You can read single threads with over 20,000 posts on FChat that are exclusively argumentative bickering, mostly from people that own nothing. Do you seriously believe guys not being interested in discussing what cars trade hands for is in any way comparable or somehow
worse than that? Come on...
