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Ford Sierra RS500 Cosworth

EstablishedRank #4

RS500 · 1987 · 224bhp · RWD · Turbo · Manual

Five hundred built to make a touring car legal, and it duly dominated. The high-water mark of the Cosworth story.

Est. value now
$170,000
CAGR 2015–2025
+8.4%
Recent CAGR
+3.2%
Units built
500

Estimated value trajectory

+$94,000 since 2015
$170k$123k$76k201520172019202120232025

Illustrative estimates for a condition-2 example, not sale records. Confidence in this trajectory: medium.

How the score is built

Desirability88 × 0.30 = 26.4

Motorsport history, cultural weight, end-of-era status, analogue purity

Scarcity100 × 0.25 = 25.0

Production run and, where known, surviving population — log scale, weighted to survivors

Momentum44 × 0.25 = 11.0

Annualised growth over recent years — what it is doing now

Trajectory69 × 0.20 = 13.8

Growth already achieved — weighted lowest, since it is priced in

Running-cost drag-5
Appreciation score71

Stage: Established

The run has already happened. Growth has slowed and the gains are in the asking price.

Long-run growth +8.4% per year against +3.2% recently — decelerating by 5.2pp. Running-cost risk is rated 6/10, deducting 5 points from the score.