The manual v12 did not get any hype
the ford gt could be found on dealer lots deep into 07 to the point they were overlapping with gt500s
as for the 458, the fact that the mc4-12c came out and buried it in performance followed up by the 488 taking back the crown left the 458 in the dust.
Nobody was struggling to sell a 458, IDK where you got that notion.
How long did it take before the Lambos and Ford GTs saw any real appreciation?
Anyway the broader point remains. Cars that struggle to sell when new rarely become collectible any time soon. LFA is very much an exception.
And the exceptions usually require some X factor that help them become reevaluated in retrospect. Like Lambo stopped making manual V12s. The LFA was an engineering tour de force with carbon materials and a bespoke V10 that was unique to the car. Production Ferraris are built in way larger numbers and boutique producers such as Pagani don’t design/build their own engines. When it became clear that Toyota would not build a successor, it started to crystallize that this level of investment for such a small production run was probably never to happen again in the history of the automotive industry.
The problem with the line if thinking that something like this could become a future classic is that it ignores the fact that a significant portion of this vehicle relies on battery technology that is assured to fail, assured to be prohibitively expensive to fix when it fails and has a limited shelf life of manufacturer support to provide the prohibitively expensive replacement parts. Nobody is going to pay top dollar for any electrified vehicle that will ultimately be comprised of hacked together battery packs courtesy of Rich Rebuilds at some point in it’s life. The classic and collector car markets will live and die with ICE cars, with some exceptions carved out for the hybrid hypercars since the people paying stupid money for them will pay the stupid money to deal with the battery issues until replacements no longer exist. If you have “F You” money to drop 100k every few years to replace your McLaren F1 fuel cell then you probably wont bat an eye at spending 100k on your P1 battery pack. Would someone in the Polestar financial bracket feel the same about 15k or 20k on a battery pack, assuming you could find one?
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15k for a failed battery down the road seems possible, and frankly doesn’t deter me too much. I have seen 15K bills on keeping V12 AMG cars alive (not to mention their suspension). I believe that Polestar will be around for a very long time, and will not let down its 1500 customers who purchased their halo car by not manufacturing replacement parts, but of course I could be wrong.
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