What’s the greatest classic car in the world? The debate has raged since the first Ford beat the first Winton. And it rages still. But there’s now some scientific analysis to help settle the question. An insurance website in the UK has compiled a list. The oddly named Confused.com—a financial services platform that mostly compares insurance rates for all kinds of things, including cars—put some stats together to answer the question.
By comparing rarity, the number of Google searches, and the amount of increase in value in the last two years, Confused made it clear: The winner is… the Lamborghini Miura!
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Here’s the thinking: Lamborghini only made 764 Miuras from 1966 to 1973, so they’re rare. The number of Google searches seeking “Miura” annually sits at 1,461,000. And the value from May of 2019 to the “current average value” has increased from $925,000 to $1,850,000, or 100 percent. Feed that into Confused.com’s algorithm and you get a “Classic Car Score” of 8.58 out of 10, which is the highest score in the study.
Second-highest car is the Ferrari F40, with 4,081,000 Google searches, 1311 ever made, and an increase in value from $1,300,000 to $2,600,000, or 100 percent, which gives it a score of 8.51.
Third was the Ferrari GTO, with 1,545,000 Googles, a total build run of just 36, and an increase in value from $68,750,000 in May of 2019 to $70 million now, or a mere 1.8-percent more. That’s good for a score of 7.89.
Does that criteria make sense? Does that methodology make sense? Are you not amused? Then feel free to start your own top 10 list! The methodology does seem to cross over a few demographics, from wealthy buyers who are probably fairly old and can shell out millions for a collector car, to very young buyers who are not old and don’t have any money at all but do have internet access, so they Google the cars they love and lust after. Balancing those two variables are production numbers.
The list goes on for 30 places—30 cars that have struck the fancy of actual buyers or struck the hopes of the aspirational. Some you would never suspect would be on any list of the greatest collector cars in the world, the Citroën 2CV, for instance. Citroën made 3.8 million of those little air-cooled two-cylinders from 1948 to 1990, but the car got almost 800,000 Google searches, and its value increased by about a third. So the 2CV sits at number 29 on the list.
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