Future Investment - Gransport or 3200 GT???

Hi Guys

I have been observing the market for a while and I have noticed that low mileage Maserati 3200 GT's and well looked after Gransports are fetching around £30,000 GBP but which one is the best investment??? I prefer the looks/sound/engine of the Gransport but also love the the bonnet vents and the boomerang lights on the 3200 GT! Gransports is a Ferrari with Maserati's clothing and the 3200 GT is a real Maserati with Maserati's traditional bi-Turbo engine which ferrari is now using (turbos) in their lastest models.

Low mileage 3200 GT's are selling very fast compared to the higher mileage 3200's and Gransports. Does this mean anything and is the American market restricting the Gransports in the Uk from appreciating? This may sound silly but this can also have an affect on a vehicle's value from climbing if that model is depreciating in another country. The 3200 GT does not exist in North America and a low mileage one could cost you £50,000 GBP in Italy. Gransport or 3200 GT???

...and Contigo cant sell his mint silver 3200 with 38k miles on it for love nor money...literally.

They may be advertised at the prices you state but are they actually selling, I believe not.

Correct not selling, this is my 3rd one, first 2 were relatively easy sells but the private prestige car market is literally on its knees as the moment. Maserati are always a tough sell imo because it is a limited market, the 3200 even more so as people love the looks but would hate the running costs and fragility of the car. People want a classic which is going to start at the turn of a key and not let them down.....

You can post all you like and there will be the odd exception but most of the ones posted on here won't get near the asking. It is the AC cars which fetch the big money at the moment.

I agree, the ACs , that have been advertised recently,seem to have sold relatively quickly, and at reasonable money, mid 20s. So why would someone spend more than that on a standard car? Unless it ticked all the boxes for just them. Advertised prices are just that.

Market analysts and traders have been saying all year that the very best very low mileage cars with excellent history are still selling for silly money. For anything else, the market has mostly softened and expectations are for prices to drop back to say 2014 levels.

The 3200 and GS have come late to the modern classic market and I suggest are being bought by punters who have missed the boat for everything else. Demand currently appears to exceed supply for the best cars but the rest have mostly been in the classifieds for ages. With the used car market, what goes up must come down and the faster prices shoot up the harder the fall.

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Gransport. It'll cost less to maintain. You can't tell anything from adverts without viewing the cars. Some are utter dogs, some are nigh on perfect.

Would love to think 3200's are selling for the prices posted but unless they are AC's then anything over 20k will take an age or struggle to sell.....As on the first page Pgils 3200 is one of the better ones and loads less money than the ones posted and it's a struggle yo sell. It's a very, very limited market.

I'm not really seeing the point of this post. For all these high priced ads we could substitute them for sub 10k ones, there are plenty of those. Somewhere inbetween their true value will be. But as with everything, it is only worth what someone is willing to pay.

But it's the low priced ones which are causing the real disparity in figures, prices have average the £12-15k range for ages but then the £7-9k cars come along and then make those look overpriced. I priced mine at £18k originally which is where it really ought to be but then it didn't sell. I've dropped it by £6.5k and it still hasn't sold so what does that tell you?

In the last year Parkway Specialist Cars have been the very last to sell a Maserati 3200 GT with 30,000 miles for under £25,000 - I personally have not seen any hpi clear Maserati 3200 GT's with under 30,000 miles selling for £10k let alone £15k today! The whole point of this post was to get others opinions on which car (Gransport or 3200 GT) is the better investment as both cars are known today as modern classics.

Maseratis always seem to struggle in the market, there is a relatively small market of true enthusiasts who are willing to buy at anyone time and those have different perspectives. There are a few who search out the ultra special rare car and are prepared to pay for it, then there are the rest of us who look for what we can afford and finally there are those who think Masers are cheap and look to get the best they can for no money. This really confuses the market as there are cars with assorts of price points.

Anyone who has owned a Maser knows they are not cheap to maintain due to limited and controlled parts supply, this causes people to cut costs on maintenance and this causes unreliability and cheap cars, cheap cars are cheap for a reason. Well maintained cars will generally hold their price but only the super rare will rise in price and even then not like a Ferrari or a Porsche. This is why I don't think the vast majority of Masers are future investments, well not in the short to medium term at least. Gransports seem to be bucking the trend over the last year or so with each one seemingly higher priced than the last but over the last 6 months the market seems to have slipped back and you are seeing some of them back in the low 20s. 4200s have stayed about the same with maybe a bit of increase in Spyders but that is probably due to the lower numbers produced.

3200s are the hardest of all to value, they have a reputation (proven or otherwise) of being expensive to run and that with parts becoming harder to find means that buyers are being cautious. Phil's 3200 is case, a great car that has good history and proven reliability but it doesn't sell even at the massively reduced price.

So unless you are buying an 3200 AC, a MC Victory or Spyder Transport buy because you want to drive not because you want to see a return on an investment.