The long version

Nobody buys an R53 as a hedge; two decades of steady depreciation down to five-figure-then-four-figure money saw to that, and the supercharged four's well-documented head-gasket and rod-bearing issues finished the job of scaring off anyone chasing a static investment. What survives is a used-market fleet of genuinely driven cars, autocrossed on weekends, wrenched in driveways, passed between enthusiasts who bought the go-kart handling on purpose and budgeted for the maintenance. Clean, unmolested examples have started climbing again as the cheap-thrills-hatch generation ages into nostalgia, but this is still bought to be driven, not stored.