Discussing with other fellow classic car nuts today at the Cholmondley Castle show today, (excellent btw) as to what and which of todays current offerings are actually going to survive to be classics on show in 20-30 years time.

Most in agreenment that todays offerings are simply far too complicated and reliant on very expensive high tech electronics that will ultimately fail and prove too costly and or impossible to replace or repair, whereas the cars of the 60's and 70's will soldier on with their simple and generally easy to work on mechanics.

Already seeing and hearing about reasonably decent 7-8 year old cars being scrapped due to exccessive repair and rectification costs.

As an example.Apparently their is an inherent problem with the indicator stalk on some of the current or at least recent PSA range.

It's got its own built in ECU apparently, and has a replacement cost of approx £500!!! :wonder: .

Frightening

Edited 2 September, 201213 yr by Mr Ree

Perhaps like the classic 6 series which has a number of electronic bugs...

How about Lotus / Wiesmann currently on offer? (not going to mention Morgan as they are already classic when they leave the factory!)

Edited 2 September, 201213 yr by My_Yeti

VW camper vans - timeless

Vx Ampera

Diesel TT

I don't think very many mainstream cars these days are mould breaking or define any point in time really. They're just refinements of things that have already been done. So I suspect some of the hybrids might be museum pieces. The Vx because it's one of the first without a mechanical drive-train, everything is done via the electric motors and the petrol engine is only a generator.

I think DMFs and DPFs will consign many diesel cars to early scrap.

I've heard there may be a move to electronic DPFs which might solve some of the issues of longevity, and diesel contamination of oil.