Volkswagen Corrado VR6
Why 6.8: A compact VW coupe with narrow-angle six-cylinder character and a real cult following. Survivors are getting collectible, but the community still drives and restores them rather than simply storing them.
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Median asking price, good condition · €22k (1995) → €26k (2026), trending up · illustrative data
The long version
The Corrado VR6 is not fast by modern numbers, which is partly why it works: the appeal is the narrow-angle six, the squat coupe shape and the sense that Volkswagen briefly built something genuinely weird for drivers. Clean cars are now scarce enough to matter, and values have climbed from used-car oblivion into enthusiast-collector territory, but the buyer pool is still mostly VW lifers rather than asset managers. It gets used, maintained, argued about and saved. No DougScore exists, but the index can read the pattern: a cult coupe just precious enough to protect, not precious enough to become furniture.