What cars from the last 20 years will be collectibles?

[Jake]

I think the big key to cars from the last 20 years becoming collectible will be ones that haven't saturated the market. Is the miata awesome and will be admired? Yes. Will it be a 'collectible'? No. Because there are 10 trillion of them. Same with the C5 corvette and to a lesser extent the S2000 and the Civic Si. They are neat cars but there are so many of them around that I don't see them being collectibles.

I agree with you on the examples given but I don't agree that just because a billion of one certain car is built that it can't be collectible. Look at the '64 1/2 - '66 Mustangs. Ford sold over 1,000,000 units in the first 18 months of production and these cars are one of the most collectible cars built in the last 50 years.

Given enough time, cars like the S2K, Civic, Miata, etc. will slowly disappear. This could take a while - the original 1964-1966 Mustangs are popular NOW, after 40+ years of being commonplace.

First Miata came out in July of 1989. That gives us until 2029ish before I can say "I told you so."