"You will bring 350 and the Wookie to ME!"

Don't know how many people caught the Stars Wars reference. I have two questions for the 350 guys that I am interested in your opinions.
1. What happens to the values when the GT500 releases?
I think the value tanks because a lot of us will flood the market in attempts to trade out.

2. How likely are you to trade/sell your 350 for the GT500

Cobra(ed) Up said:

Don't know how many people caught the Stars Wars reference. I have two questions for the 350 guys that I am interested in your opinions.
1. What happens to the values when the GT500 releases?
I think the value tanks because a lot of us will flood the market in attempts to trade out.

2. How likely are you to trade/sell your 350 for the GT500

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I'm gonna say the value will drop. The value of the 13-14 gt500's dropped as soon as the 350's hit the market. I learned a hard lesson with my 13 gt500, don't ever expect a cars value to stay up where you paid.


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Agree, we all know about the 20% diminished value over the 1st three years. The drop I am referring to is when the 500's come out, the market floods with 350's and they go for low/mid 40's (based on supply and demand). I hope that is not the case, but likely. 13-14 GT500 are still mid 50's in good condition.

The GT500 never effected the Boss 302 value because there was a big gap in their pricing. They both stayed up strong for many years. The GT350 seemed to effect the resale value slightly.... But considering a new '13 Boss was 42-45k MSRP and retail is still 32-35k five years later.... That's an amazing resale value.
It'll all depend where Ford prices the GT500. If it's 70k+, the value on the GT350 should hold well.

I'm so getting back my 350 if the prices hit 40's

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Ford performance vehicles hold their value very well compared to other brands.

Window sticker for my 10 year old GT500 was 44k if i remember right. Depending on location, a low mile 07-09 GT500 still fetches near $30k... just over 3% depreciation per year. Pretty damn good if you ask me.

Results are similar for the Boss 302, 13/14 GT500s, 03/04 Cobras... etc etc.


To answer OPs question, values will go down but should hold fine long term.

Drop. Yes

Tank. No

Prices always soften a bit when a new performance model comes along. But it also depends on what the GT500 is. The 350 is aimed at the track junkies, and the 500 has historically been a strip bruiser. Two different markets with different desires

What 50 Deep said.

I never wanted to buy a GT500, and wouldn't think I'd give up the GT350 for one.

A lot depends on how good the GT500 really is.

I bough the GT350 as a stop gap because the new GT500 wasn't out yet, planned to trade as soon as I could get Gt500 reasonably.

BUT , I love this car. The GT500 will have to give up nothing in handling and be a Sub 11.2 car stock for me to even consider it.

I'm hoping Ford makes the 1000 17 Rs and at least that many in 18, and I might get one of those.

I'm thinking that the 350 will stay at it's current rate of depreciation. It's not like there is an unlimited supply.

Considering 03 Cobras are arguably rising (good ones; edit the cream of the crop ones in all fairness) I'd say gt350/r's will come down slightly and steadily over about 10 years then slowly creep back up. Excellent condition specialty mustangs, mostly the rarest ones, basically are impervious to depreciation.

There's enough demand in most every demographic of the mustang community for the gems.

The average to beat gt350 will go the similar route of the average to beat 03 cobra. About 40% depreciation over 10 years so maybe low $30's by then.

Compare that to Bavarians and it's still light years better. 7-8 year old $30k m3's with new msrps in the 70's is laughable.

My opinion, clearly. No Wikipedia sourced collegiate sources or government backed trust fund think tank funded studies or lobbyist contributions can be credited in this thesis.

I am concerned with all the tech on this car, and how expensive it will be to maintain as it ages.

The GT350 was really the spiritual successor of the Boss 302s. I'm sure some sold Bosses to get GT500s but overall I doubt this causes a exodus in GT350 owners.

If the new GT500 is basically an updated 13-14 GT500 I'm not a buyer, but will admire at a distance.

are they making the GT350 past 2018?

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I am concerned with all the tech on this car, and how expensive it will be to maintain as it ages.

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Tech is leading automotive evolution right now. Maintenance of tech should not be an issue. Besides, the way things are now, tech is not maintained, it is replaced by upgrades.

It will depend on what the new GT500 is (or isn't).

If it's a muscle car and trying to compete with the Hellcat/Demon, I'd say the GT350 remains solid.

If they incorporate a lot of the features of the GT350 into the GT500, then yes, we're screwed for resale.

It basically comes down to whether or not they push the GT500 toward the GT350 with just more motor or they try to compete with the muscle car sales.

I'm guessing that they will do the latter. Bean counters get a hold of the platform and make the engineers take massive appetite suppressants.

So once you say "supercharger" or "turbo chargers" you're instantly in the price range of a $40K mustang GT + cost of factory blower/turbos, right in the neighborhood of our cars. Then when you start adding in all the other frills....seats, wheels, tires, brakes, dampening, special trans, coolers, active exhaust, etc, etc.....the bean counters quickly realize that they've priced the car out of the market.

Unless Ford finds a way to basically add a factory blower to a GT350 style setup made for the road course and still price it for less than $80k, I'd say we're okay.

My sense is that they'll skimp on wheels and brakes and go big on motor, keep the price tag reasonable and try to compete with the likes of the hellcat/demon.

Even if they go the other direction toward our cars, the price tag will protect our value. People will see a new $70k-$80k GT500 and look at a used GT350 for low 50's and still see value.

The new gt500 will go after the ZL1 1LE. It will be like a GT350 on steroids. It will not go after the Demon.

GT350 values will drop.

Only if they can do that for a cost comparable to the 350.

If the new GT500 comes out for $60k or less, I'd agree. But if it comes out with an MSRP of $70K+, then that creates a big enough value gap between a barely used GT350 for low 50s and a new GT500 for $20k more.

It would never come out at $60k or less, I guarantee it.

I also guarantee, that everyone that owns a GT350(R) will want the new GT500 as it will be a GT350(R) on speed.

ANGREY said:

Only if they can do that for a cost comparable to the 350.

If the new GT500 comes out for $60k or less, I'd agree. But if it comes out with an MSRP of $70K+, then that creates a big enough value gap between a barely used GT350 for low 50s and a new GT500 for $20k more.

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I think that most of the current 350 owners can afford whatever extra mark up for the new 500 and will likely jump ship.