- All cars are cool--
Lemme put my hat on like a normal.
All cars are cool but there's a problem.
The older a car gets the more it loses its value.
They are what is known as a depreciating asset.
(woman speaking faintly)
Oh my Lord.
What if I told you that some cars
did the opposite of depreciate?
We put together a list of nine cars
that basically won't lose any value at all
if you buy them right now today.
I'm not talking about buying a car and keeping it
in a climate controlled garage for 20 years,
I'm talking about vehicles so you can daily drive
and then sell in a few years
without losing much if any money.
Some of these cars will even make you money.
I'm James
And this is, the--
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A big thank you to Ridge Wallet for sponsoring today's--
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- Nope, declined.
You have another one?
- No, my wallet only has a place for one card.
It's Italian.
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- Big thanks to Ridge Wallets for sponsoring today's--
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Joe? Sick jacket!
- Oh, James, no time for fashion!
any second now, that card is going to get declined.
And if it does, you're going to get hangry.
You're not going to gonna get a pizza
and you're gotta quit donut forever.
- What?
- You got to get rid of that pathetic wallet
and replace it with one of these.
Unlike those pathetic thin wallets
the Ridge Wallet is minimalist without being limiting.
You can carry 12 cards--
- 12 Cards?
No folds?
- Where we're going, we don't need folds.
- (laughs) From the movie!
- Delivery for Kentucky Cobra.
- Well, I'm sure one of these will do.
(cards clattering)
- Great. All set.
- Thanks for saving me, Joe.
- No problem, but we can save more people
by telling them to visit rich.com/donut.
And if you enter code donut, you'll get 10% off.
But hurry up because time is of the essence.
- You wanna slice?
- I wish I could James, but it looks like I got to go.
Jeremiah is about to get fired from bumper to bumper.
(whooshing)
- All right.
First things first, pretty much any Toyota SUV
is going to have a resale value.
It's going to make you say: "You're killing me, Larry."
That's a joke about a mattress store commercial
on the radio from 15 years ago.
So our choice for this list
is none other than the legendary--
- [Voiceover] Toyota Land Cruiser
- Toyota has been making the Land Cruiser
for like a million years and any generation
is a safe bet not to lose money.
But the one that I'm putting
on this list is the legendary 80 series.
That's the one from the nineties, specifically the FZJ 80
which came out between 93 and 97.
So what makes this particular Land Cruiser so nice?
This was the last few years of the generation
and it came with the insanely beefy legendary
1FZ-FE straight six engine plus full-time four wheel drive
and a locking center diff.
This mill is super over engineered.
So it runs forever.
And that's why this car can still fetch a pretty penny.
Even with super high mileage.
We found this one with 200,000 miles
on it and it's on sale for $17,000.
You can get a Ford Explorer with bad paint
and 200,000 miles on it for like 500 bucks.
You could say that buying one of these is a no brainer.
(electronic distorting) And you need no brain
to know this is a good buy.
- If you're watching this channel, you probably
know a little bit about the Integra Type R.
If you don't, it was a hot boiled up version
of Acura/Honda's flagship coupe that sold
for a pretty reasonable price at the time.
I say at the time because nice example
these days are selling for like $90,000.
Let's say your like me and you don't have
$90,000 but you still want an Integra
without losing your initial investment.
Well, let me introduce you to
the Type R's little bro, the Integra GSR.
- [Voiceover] Integra GRSR...
Basically the GSR was really similar to the Type R,
but it didn't have the Simola chassis,
Didn't have a limited slip diff,
very similar engine and it
didn't have any cool red trim.
So you're really not missing out on that much.
If you want to get your nuts, a little greasy.
Good driver-condition GSR sells for around $9,000
which is great for a 30 year old economy boxing.
Since the Type R is shooting up in value
the GSR is definitely going to follow
in his big brother's footsteps.
It's one of the only examples where
trickle down is a real thing.
Now like a lot of cars on this list,
you might need to look pretty hard to find a good one
but definitely hang on to it.
If you're able to get one.
(french accent) Ze reliability, ze loxury,
this is not French?
(cameraman laughing) (accordion playing)
Ze reliability, ze loxury, ze meed-engine performance,
ze toplessness, that's what you get
when you snag yourself a P-Car Boxter S
from the early 2000's!
- [Voiceover] Porsche Boxster S
- This one's a bit different because it did depreciate
quite a bit, but it's on its way back up.
So it is sort of like a value that you might
(whispering) actually make some money on.
So why are P-heads hot on the Boxter-bandwagon again?
Well, for starters, the new ones have a four cylinder
turbo motor, and people didn't like that.
This one has the flat six smack dab between them two axles.
This drop top cowboy puts down 258 Holsteiners to them.
That's a German horse.
When it was new it cost almost $50,000,
which is $75,000 in today's money.
But nowadays you can find them for well under 10 grand.
And just like I said, up at the tip top of this video
this isn't a car that you need to keep hidden away
in the garage because the Boxster really is fun to drive,
it's the ultimate driving machine.
Just make sure that nothing breaks because
while the car is cheap, fixing anything
on any Porsche is not.
- [Voiceover] Jeep Wrangler.
Wrangler in the OG-froader and O G stands for,
"Oh Gosh, that truck is good going off-road."
Just like the Land Cruiser,
Jeep has been making Wranglers forever.
And there are a ton of really good generations
to choose from but our pick on this list
is the second gen Wrangler also known
as the TJ because it's, in our opinion
the perfect Jeep.
Jeeps a long time ago were basically metal frames
with seats and steering wheel.
Jeeps today are giant SUV's.
The TJ is the perfect balance.
It's right in the middle.
It's the Malcolm of cars.
I saw Frankie Muniz at an audition one time,
he does not look good as a grownup.
TJ also came in a ton of different trim options,
depending on your needs.
Do you want to go off-roading without
having to do a bunch of mods?
Stuff, Rubicon!
You want premium seats and a factory subwoofer
to bump your tunes?
Grab have yourself a Sahara.
There's even a fricking Tomb Raider-edition.
You can find a pretty good TJ
for not much more than 10 grand nowadays
but really nice ones are selling for like $30,000.
For a 30 year old Jeep, that price isn't going down.
So get one soon, if you can, if you want one
if you don't want one, no crash.
(distorted) but what if you want an off-roader
that can haul a bunch of lumber?
- [Voiceover] Toyota Tacoma.
Do I need to explain this one?
It's a taco.
Everybody loves tacos.
I would personally be fine with owning any Tacoma.
And I think we might own two coming up.
They might be driven by me and Nolan and Aaron and Zach Jobe
but which one should I buy James?
Well, Pertner, I reckon you'd look real cute
in one of them first-gen tacos.
Oh, between 95 and 2004.
And by the time Toyota released this truck,
they had already cracked the pickup truck formula.
The first gen came with three different engine options
in auto or manual and a two wheel drive or four wheel drive.
But if we're talking resale value here,
which we are, make sure you get a V6 and four wheel drive
because that's the ones that people want.
Here's a 95, which is a very early one.
It's got 220,000 miles because it's a Toyota truck
and it's $10,000.
Okay. And it's $10,000
Just make sure you get under there and check out the frame.
And pray, that the Rustman don't come
and get you in the middle cold, wet night...
Oh, red brown fingers reach around yo frame
and chill from the inside!
(maniacal screaming)
- [Voiceover] VW Beetle.
Beetles have been around for fricking ever.
And not only are they a super-overrated band, they're a car.
And they've always had like a really dedicated fan base
so they're always extremely sought after.
Although there was a period in time,
a couple of decades ago when beetles cost like 50 bucks
but today can't go wrong buy an old bug.
I mean, you can, you can buy a classic beetle
in pretty good condition for a couple of grand.
You can buy a broken one for like a couple of hundred bucks!
Whatever you decide to do, they're notoriously
easy to work on, parts are everywhere
and you get really, really good return of investment
with just a few weekends of wrenching.
There's a reason that VW didn't really change the design
of this thing for like a million years.
It's just a good-ass Car.
- [Voiceover] McLaren F1.
If you're like me, you already sold
your McLaren F1 years ago.
If you're also like me, you wish you had kept
your McLaren F1 because its value has increased
1000% from when it was new.
And it was $815,000 when it came out in 1992,
which is how much I got paid as a seven year
old being on a season of Full House!
And I blew it all!
On a McLaren F1!
$815,000 in 1992 is about $1.5 million today,
which is a ton until you consider that McLaren F1
sell for 14.5 million.
This is more of a joke one because you know
100% of you aren't in the market for a McLaren F1
but we really couldn't do a list of cars
with good resale value without including one
of the highest appreciating cars of all time.
- [Voiceover] BMW E30.
The second gen BMW 3-Series aka the E30
was made between 1982 to 1994.
It's sold for around 20 to $28,000 when it was brand new
which is just over $49,000 in today's money.
But for a while like 10 to 15 years ago,
they got cheap, like dirt cheap.
And back then nobody really cared about these cars.
So a lot of them got scrapped or turned
into like drift missiles or something.
Max bought his for $200.
I used to own a 318 and I broke it.
(guffaws)
But thanks to people like me and Max,
finding a clean unmodified example
that isn't broken is fairly rare.
So prices have really shot up in the last few years.
It's the same thing that happened at 240 SX's
and like every other car at the bottom
of its depreciation curve.
Really good E30's sell for about $20,000,
but you can still find bargains
if you look hard enough, these things are classics.
And I don't see them all of the sudden not becoming classic.
We saved the best for last, just like we always do.
That's kind of the point of a list.
This last car is super fun, super daily driveable
and a super good investment at the same damn time.
Let's go! (voice distorting)
- [Voiceover] Honda S2000.
S2000 is a legendary Japanese car.
is probably the best convertible of all time.
Suck it Miata!
Honda managed to pair their crazy good reliability
with an intoxicating high-revving Vtech motor
in two door package that can only be described as beautiful!
No one said it's probably his favorite car
he's ever driven, and he's driven high car.
Honda built these so well
that a ton of them are still
on their first owners because nobody wants to sell them.
So with a reputation like that, it's no surprise
that these things hold their value very well.
Whether it's an AP one, it's the first gen
or an AP two, it's a second gen.
These things currently sell for between 10 and $20,000
one even sold for over 70,000 bucks.
Yeah, sure, it only had 93 miles on it
but still it's more than what it was new!
But don't let the high cost
of entry scare you away because just
like the E30 and pretty much every other car on this list
you can find them cheap, if you're determined enough.
Here's one for 7,500 it's got a salvage title
and a lot more than 93 miles
but it's still an S 2000
and I'm sure it's still super fun to drive.
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It's a thing.
Everybody has sales and we're no exception.
For the rest of the weekend
everything on donutmedia.com is 25% off.
I was like, guys, 25%.
That's like a lot, right.
And they were like, yeah.
And I was like, they spent like a hundred dollars.
It's like $25 off.
Yeah. This is the accountants I'm talking to.
I was like, aren't we going to lose a bunch of money?
And they're like, hope not.
So yeah.
Let me know what other lists you want us to
put together down in the comments below.
What about your car that's not a Miata,
but still a perfect project car.
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