will Kizashi became collector car someday?

[SAEED_KIZZY]

I was thinking it is possible after 10 or 15 years from now Kizashi became collector car?

[OliverB]

Doubt it. Maybe if its manual and has the sls package.

[SRN]

I think it will be an oddity that certain people will hunt for, again if its a 6MT. But it'll never really reach "collector" status because its not a crazy unique vehicle. It was slotted in to compete with Jetta's, Camry's, and Accord's and despite being better in some ways than those, it really doesn't stand out in many remarkable ways that would make it collectible.
But who knows, maybe in 30 years the 1,000 or so remaining Kizashi's that haven't been scrapped will be selling for millions of dollars and we'll all be kick ourselves for selling ours.

[OliverB]

Just for kicks, I looked up if there were any for sale in the US/Canada and I couldn't find a single one with a manual transmission. I can see such a car for sale on bringatrailer.com in 20 years because it is certainly a special model, being the last one sold by Suzuki before they packed their bags up.

[johnhenrydale]

Tend to agree with SRN here. I think if it had aabout 100-150 more HP and there was a factory AWD V6 or Turbo 4 option it might be a different story. But as it stands now, my guess is this will be a VERY niche collector car that will only be collected by the hardcore Kizashi fans like you see on this forum.

[SRN]

Just for kicks, I looked up if there were any for sale in the US/Canada and I couldn't find a single one with a manual transmission. I can see such a car for sale on bringatrailer.com in 20 years because it is certainly a special model, being the last one sold by Suzuki before they packed their bags up.

My understanding is that only around 10% of all Kizashi's are 6MT GTS/SLS models. It took me about 6 months to find mine back in 2015. Bought a one way ticket to Seattle, met the guy I was buying it from in the airport parking lot and then drove it back to Salt Lake.

[OliverB]

My understanding is that only around 10% of all Kizashi's are 6MT GTS/SLS models. It took me about 6 months to find mine back in 2015. Bought a one way ticket to Seattle, met the guy I was buying it from in the airport parking lot and then drove it back to Salt Lake.

10% seems pretty generous. I've seen 3 manual Kizashis for sale in Canada since I bought mine 2 years ago. Too bad they were either in very poor condition or horribly priced ):

[Drem]

I wanted the AWD which was not available with manual. Went AWD. Not regretting it yet. I will when the CVT fails maybe.

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[KansasKid]

I haven't seen a manual Kizashi on any of the car shopping sites in months... I did see one in the middle of nowhere MO with a little front end damage for $500 tho on the Facebook Marketplace recently, but it sold real fast.