General The Bravo, a collector's item?

[decypha77]

Now I'm about to suggest something I haven't seen on the forum yet so go easy on me (here's looking at you Tad ).

I read or heard somewhere some years back about what kinds of things can factor into a car possibly becoming a collector's item.

They mentioned a few things like it must not have been a great sales success when it was new (meaning they become rare) yet it should have redeeming features (that make it interesting). I can't recollect all of the other factors but the Bravo was not a major sales success for Fiat; mine is a 2008 model, but to this day it still gets me lots of stares, is fun to drive and scares large piles of manure out of other cars when your right foot gets heavy.

The result of all this is that I often deal with multiple people trying to buy it from me firstly and these people are often prepared to buy it for more than its supposed market value.

What are the chances that a well-kept Bravo could end up being a collector's item in future? What are your thoughts?

 

[Matthewr1990]

Now I'm about to suggest something I haven't seen on the forum yet so go easy on me (here's looking at you Tad ).

I read or heard somewhere some years back about what kinds of things can factor into a car possibly becoming a collector's item.

They mentioned a few things like it must not have been a great sales success when it was new (meaning they become rare) yet it should have redeeming features (that make it interesting). I can't recollect all of the other factors but the Bravo was not a major sales success for Fiat; mine is a 2008 model, but to this day it still gets me lots of stares, is fun to drive and scares large piles of manure out of other cars when your right foot gets heavy.

The result of all this is that I often deal with multiple people trying to buy it from me firstly and these people are often prepared to buy it for more than its supposed market value.

What are the chances that a well-kept Bravo could end up being a collector's item in future? What are your thoughts?

Can't see it myself, whilst in modern day sales terms it is rare, it did still manage to sell very well in comparison to genuinely rare cars, the other thing is there is no redeeming feature which makes it stand out hence why it didn't sell well. Yeh the more powerful engines (T-jet 150, multi jet 165) are a surprise package but no where near the power terms of other hatchbacks (ST's, Type R's, R-Designs etc).

The only thing going for them is the rare looks as I don't think there's another car that comes close to how the Bravo looks. Even the Grande's are very different. Though is it something that can make it a collectors item? I don't think so. You have to imagine looking at a Bravo 30 years down the line. Bit battered, 100,000 miles on the clock. Probably completely redundant radio, multimedia connections, heck even Bluetooth may have moved on by then. Are you going to want to drop God knows how much money and time trying to fix one up? Again I doubt it.

Doesn't mean it can't be valued by people. I'll always love a Bravo for my own reasons but I wouldn't collect one.

 

[Tad-bravo]

Now I'm about to suggest something I haven't seen on the forum yet so go easy on me (here's looking at you Tad ).

I read or heard somewhere some years back about what kinds of things can factor into a car possibly becoming a collector's item.

They mentioned a few things like it must not have been a great sales success when it was new (meaning they become rare) yet it should have redeeming features (that make it interesting). I can't recollect all of the other factors but the Bravo was not a major sales success for Fiat; mine is a 2008 model, but to this day it still gets me lots of stares, is fun to drive and scares large piles of manure out of other cars when your right foot gets heavy.

The result of all this is that I often deal with multiple people trying to buy it from me firstly and these people are often prepared to buy it for more than its supposed market value.

What are the chances that a well-kept Bravo could end up being a collector's item in future? What are your thoughts?

maybe in 20 years.
the few bravos I see on the road here are often beaten to death low spec and I doubt will last very long.
so that may make the well kept high spec ones even more desirable in the future.