[RightOnTheBorder]

The same thing happens with Ferraris. Customers who have good relationships with the dealers get first crack and then deep pockets with no connections buy them used (barely) for inflated prices.

[rickomatic]

My first car was a 1965 Oldsmobile 442. I paid $1100.00 for it used in 1971. There is a clone of that car at a dealership nearby. It has 69,000 original miles on it.
It is currently priced at $26,000.00

[Regulator]

If they wanted to make life miserable for Musk, they could lower the price, increase production and give the Model S some real competition.

[Don Corleone]

The reason, which makes used i8s so expensive, lies in high demand limited by the low production target set by BMW.

Gee that sounds like a crazy definition of free market capitalism.

[Rodamala]

Pre-SCR/Urea Injection diesel pickup trucks have appreciated in value as well... because the market, regardless of the questionable "authority" of the EPA, demands a product that does not have Tier 4 compliance nightmare hardware added to it to maintain.

[JimRed]

We saw one of those in a parking lot last week. My wife asked what it was, and I hadn’t a clue until I saw the BMW nameplate.

[Billthedrill]

Hmm...maybe that explains why my offer to buy a mint ‘63 split-window Vette for $4000 hasn’t gotten any takers. Whaddaya know.

[Vinnie]

When the Honda Accord first hit the U.S. shores in the ‘70s they commanded MSRP + the demand was so high.

[Moonman62]

Dealerships catch on to this type of arbitrage very quickly.