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[EMD]

I bet somewhere there is an Omega with 0 miles on it in mint condition ..  it will be for sale in 30 years time . Mite just scratch as being a classic 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

The Omega will never make really big money. However, well cared for examples will only go up in value as the days tick by. Just like a cared for Cortina, Victor, or Granada.

I predict £6000-£7000 for the very best 3.2 Elite in a decade from now.




 

[Vamps]

The Omega will never make really big money. However, well cared for examples will only go up in value as the days tick by. Just like a cared for Cortina, Victor, or Granada.

I predict £6000-£7000 for the very best 3.2 Elite in a decade from now.

Part of me agrees with you, but the more practical side does not, anything post electrical wizadree will not gain value like an older car. They are not readily fixable by a diy'er who enjoys a tinker at the weekend, on a car that is old skool and therefore pretty much diy'able for almost any job; modern electrics will kill off potential classics of the future imo........

[EMD]

The Omega will never make really big money. However, well cared for examples will only go up in value as the days tick by. Just like a cared for Cortina, Victor, or Granada.

I predict £6000-£7000 for the very best 3.2 Elite in a decade from now.

A modern ish day car really needs the X factor , like a factory fitted
turbo or impressive 0-60 ... something unusual 
But then again who would have thought the Allegro would come collectible .

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

The Omega will never make really big money. However, well cared for examples will only go up in value as the days tick by. Just like a cared for Cortina, Victor, or Granada.

I predict £6000-£7000 for the very best 3.2 Elite in a decade from now.

A modern ish day car really needs the X factor , like a factory fitted
turbo or impressive 0-60 ... something unusual 
But then again who would have thought the Allegro would come collectible .



 

Maybe the All-aggro fits into Mr Vamps 'readily fixable' category.

[EMD]

The Omega will never make really big money. However, well cared for examples will only go up in value as the days tick by. Just like a cared for Cortina, Victor, or Granada.

I predict £6000-£7000 for the very best 3.2 Elite in a decade from now.

A modern ish day car really needs the X factor , like a factory fitted
turbo or impressive 0-60 ... something unusual 
But then again who would have thought the Allegro would come collectible .



 

Maybe the All-aggro fits into Mr Vamps 'readily fixable' category.

My mate smashed through a 6ft brick wall in one , still drove it home 

[Diamond Black Geezer]

I agree with comments that the Omega, as with any car won't be worth anything more than any other car in a similar state of excellent condition. But I also have the thought that as with Allegros, TR7s etc, they had a period where people considered them just too ordinary and mass market to ever be collectible, and now they're suddenly wanted.

I'd like to think that one day there'll be a generation of chaps out there who are retired, after a great career in marketing/sales/repping, who with their disposable income/pensions, would like to add to their car collection their first 'proper' rep's car they had as a junior rep all them years ago. As I say, Omegas were literally the cheapest rear-drive repmobile there was, and you could have had either a Vectra - or, the same car (albeit without the leather, and many toys) as the guy that'd been in the job 5 more years than you. OK, it's not the stock standard 5-series, like the Manager had, but it got you the same amount of space, comfort and luxury as he had, for about a third less money.

Just look at the market for vintage games consoles - exploded because of 30/40somethings wanting to have another stab at their teens with their Atari/Spectrum/NES etc

I do wonder, though about parts. On the one hand they're getting impossible to get hold of and we're dooomed. On the other hand, each generation moves things on, with regards to technology. To fabricate a PCB would seem impossible witchcraft to someone working in cutting-edge Codebreaking in WW2, but now it's relative childsplay to many. Just look at what the generation who grew up with programming and writing code on their Sinclairs/BBC Acorns have done - photorealistic gaming and CGI beyond belief. The next generation will/are growing up with handing in their reports on touchscreen tablets and making projects on 3D printers at school. 3D printing alone is possibly the most exciting technology since the means to press sheet metal was invented. And the possibilities could mean panels, headlamp adjusters, even crank sensors could be knocked up in some kid's bedroom for pence. I theorise, just for fun, and of course no-one knows.

Life's no fun without a challenge - and Omegas certainly are that.   

[EMD]

Life's no fun without a challenge - and Omegas certainly are that. 

I think that could be said of most cars that are getting on a bit though  If it hasn't rusted together its fallen off  You will be lucky to get away with just servicing  By the way you dont see any Austin Princess's around any more 

[Sir Tigger KC]

I'd have thought that for a price most electrickery can be fixed.    A good example is the likes of BBA Reman fixing Omega ABS/ECU's and maybe as time goes on more outfits like that will spring up to service the classic car market. 

[EMD]

Anything can be fixed or adapted , quite possible other compatible electrickeires will adapt . And if it rots just cut it out an weld in new . amazing what you see in the scrap yards these days when the cars are perfectly salvageable , throw away society innit 

[Diamond Black Geezer]

This was my thinking - what we perceive to be a tricky, expensive, or even impossible repair these days in the future will be accessible, use more common, and maybe even cheap. (we can hope  ) Ironically look at the skills which are waning - old-school heavy engineering practices, which were created to service such as traction engines and other steam engines etc. Time was that to service such a machine was easy and common. Now you need to find a specialist engineering firm who can re-shell bearings, make a chain, make a gear wheel etc. I'd say it's those firms which (sadly) will near-die out, and the shops where you'll drive up, plug in to a computer and tell the guy "can you programme the artificial revs section of the sound system of my EV to make a Bugatti Veyron rasp, please? From, like, the early 21st century" will flourish.

The cardinal rule of our society - if there's money to be made, someone will do it   

I hope the future is fairly bright for Omegas, and similar cars

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Life's no fun without a challenge - and Omegas certainly are that. 

I think that could be said of most cars that are getting on a bit though  If it hasn't rusted together its fallen off  You will be lucky to get away with just servicing  By the way you dont see any Austin Princess's around any more 

A previous Father-in-law gifted me one in the late eighties. Red with a BVR and a lusty 1700 OHC lump. It was going to be 'cubed' but all it needed to sail through the MOT  was something called 'displacers'. I bought a used pair for about twenty quid.

Actually not a bad car, being extremely comfortable and spacious.

Sadly though, the Princess didn't moisten the pussies of the local girls.

[EMD]

Still looks better than a lot of modern rubbish they make now 

[The Sheriff]

I had a burgundy one. It was, indeed, spacious and comfortable, but it was the original car that inspired the "0-60 in 15 minutes" sticker. 

[Diamond Black Geezer]

Still looks better than a lot of modern rubbish they make now 

I know the designer Harris Mann, who had received much stick about his designs over the years (mostly down to build quality, which a designer has no control over) would be pleased to hear you say that. I was lucky enough to talk to him on several occasions, as he was a sort of 'guest lecturer' during my time at Uni. Very nice chap and personally, for all their faults, don't dislike the Allegro and especially the Princess which were a 1980s hatchback (except the Princess wasn't of course - again down to cost and not his fault) - but about a decade early. We're used to seeing a 'normal' car being a two-box wedge shape these days, but in the 70s all-but everything was a traditional three-box design. Personally don't dislike the TR7 either. Mind, if we're talking about 70 Designers, look up the work of Ogle and William Towns...