Filed under: Car Buying, Classics, Auctions
Hagerty Insurance seems to think vintage SUVs are going to be the next big trend in car collecting. The agency has already seen prices begin to tick upward at auction, with the number of classic SUVs insured by the company growing some 65 percent since 2008. That's about twice the pace of the overall market. All told,
Toyota Land Cruisers have seen the largest jump with a swell of 202 percent, though 1970s and 1980s
Jeep models are up by a more than respectable 93 percent as well. Likewise,
Ford Bronco and
International Scout SUVs are up by 86 and 85 percent, respectively.
Hagerty attributes the increase with the overall rise in the popularity of the SUV in general. As modern machines become more in vogue, so do their predecessors by extension. While these old bruisers haven't spent much time in the lime light at classic car auctions, Hagerty says recent events in Scottsdale featured 11 vintage Toyota Land Cruiser models, one of which sold for $88,000. That's quite a price for a 1981 FJ-40. You can read the
full press release below.
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Filed under: Car Buying, Sedan, SUV, Truck, Crossover, Acura, Cadillac, Hyundai, Mitsubishi, Subaru, Suzuki, Toyota, Luxury
Where there are winners, there are inevitably losers. Last year was
exceedingly kind to big pickups, sprawling family sedans and SUVs, but not every model came out of 2011 with big sales figures. We took the time to dig through the low-selling models of the past 12 months to find out which vehicles produced throughout the year were the biggest duds. Since we aren't interested in how few
Lamborghini Aventador models rolled off of dealer lots in the U.S. in 2011, we kept the MSRP under $100,000.
Our criteria immediately nixed vehicles like the
Mazda RX-8,
Volvo V50, Ram Cargo Van and everything in the
Saab stable due to the fact that those models weren't manufactured through all 12 months of 2011. High-end metal like the
Mercdes-Benz SL,
CL and
G classes were also kicked to the curb due to our price ceiling. Which was the worst of them all? We'll give you a hint. It wasn't the
Acura ZDX.
Hit the jump to check out our list of the worst-selling vehicles of 2011.
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These are your top 10 worst-selling vehicles of 2011 originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Unfortunately you can't buy a HZJ76 Land Cruiser in America, but you can in other parts of the world like Africa and the Middle East—where this 2011 model came from. As you can see from the pictures this truck's journey to America wasn't without incident.
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Australia's the land of the hoon, but also some crazy wildlife. It took
two Land Cruisers to pull this 21-foot-long
cow-eating crocodile from the swamp after it was dispatched. There's another big one still hiding. Damn nature, you scary! [
AdelaideNows]
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