I'm genuinely surprised that the 480 hasn't become more 'valuable'. It still looks good and It's not complicated or expensive to run once the known weak spots are sorted. The best of the best will always go up in value, but the normal, sound ones havent.
I bought a 2.0 ES for peanuts and fixed the rear arches, rear bumper bar, rear clusters, front clusters and info Centre with new parts. Kept it for 5 years and sold it 5 years ago at an almost breakeven price. All the classic car mags predicted good things, but I guess there is no group of aspirational buyers, whereas an XR2 is lots of people's nostalgia trip.
I guess I'll see what happens with my classic Impreza Turbo that I bought with the 480 money ?
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