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Current owner of R35 (no mods). Have owned plenty of vettes, tons of other performance cars (domestic and germans mostly). Most of what you see here is nerds doing excel sheet comparisons. A quick breakdown:
- Did one big service when I first got R35 (2nd owner). Was about ~$1,500-1,700 from reliable specialty shop to go through and do everything. That was almost 4 years ago, since then just normal maintenance (oil change) and 0 issues with car.
- If you care about it: I've had more comments/random strangers talking to me/etc in any 1-2 random trips out with the car versus years of ownership of anything else I've had (c6-c8 vettes, 70 GTO restomod, 67 Camaro restomod, charger and challenger hellcats, few mustangs, trackhawks, AMG S63 and C63s, RS7, etc). Just driving 20m to work I saw 3 C8's within minutes on the interstate. Haven't ever seen another R35 in the wild yet.
- Will hold it's value, most likely. At least better than the stuff you are comping it with. Vettes are excellent performance:dollar vehicles, but ubiquitous and still have maintenance and performance parts tax.
- Aftermarket options are well vetted, proven, easy, and reliable. $15-20k and you've got a dailyable 9-second street car and one of those weird situations where mods don't (considerably) hurt the car's value--especially if you buy one with them already and aren't ruining it anymore than it was.
After all those cars, paring down/selling off stuff I never drove or didn't like, etc R35 made the cut. I've even been shopping around for some 'luxury' GT or fun cars but realistically most don't get me much over the R35 except some feminine 'need' like native carplay or android auto which I don't care about. They have bluetooth or cable for audio, and aren't sending telemetry 24/7 to some random third party.
Your deal: A bit high on price IMO, but we're talking enthusiast cars not Toyota commuters. I paid about $70k for '12 Black Edition w/35k miles ~4yr ago.
