{
 "meta": {
  "source": "Enthusiast Index — https://enthusiast-index.com",
  "generated": "2026-07-21",
  "count": 142,
  "license": "Data CC BY 4.0 — attribute with a link to https://enthusiast-index.com",
  "disclaimer": "Index scores, involvement ratings and value timelines are editorial/illustrative. DougScores quoted from Doug DeMuro's public spreadsheet. Community votes are real.",
  "axis": "Index score 0-10: 10 = driver's tool bought to be driven, 0 = boulevard trophy bought to be seen. Driver involvement is a separate 0-10 editorial rating (weakest-link rubric, see /methodology/)."
 },
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  {
   "id": "carrerat",
   "slug": "porsche-911-carrera-t",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/porsche-911-carrera-t/",
   "name": "Porsche 911 Carrera T",
   "brand": "Porsche",
   "category": "Sports cars & GTs",
   "years": "2022–",
   "index_score": 8.6,
   "involvement": 9,
   "miles_driven_factor": 8.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 8,
   "verdict": "Manual, no wing, no waiting list.",
   "why": "A manual, lightly optioned 911 that undercuts the S. Ordered almost exclusively by people who knew exactly what they wanted — the anti-allocation Porsche.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2023,
     125
    ],
    [
     2024,
     118
    ],
    [
     2025,
     112
    ],
    [
     2026,
     108
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 118,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [],
   "variants": [
    {
     "label": "7-speed manual",
     "involvement": 9
    },
    {
     "label": "PDK",
     "involvement": 7.5
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "cayman",
   "slug": "porsche-718-cayman",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/porsche-718-cayman/",
   "name": "Porsche 718 Cayman",
   "brand": "Porsche",
   "category": "Sports cars & GTs",
   "years": "2016–",
   "index_score": 8.4,
   "involvement": 8.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 8.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 8.5,
   "verdict": "Balance over bragging rights.",
   "why": "Mid-engine balance, honest money, nothing to signal. Median annual mileage in listings is the highest of any Porsche sports car — these get driven.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2016,
     64
    ],
    [
     2019,
     55
    ],
    [
     2022,
     52
    ],
    [
     2026,
     48
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 58,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [
    "Smiles per Dollar"
   ],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "gt4rs",
   "slug": "porsche-718-gt4-rs",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/porsche-718-gt4-rs/",
   "name": "Porsche 718 GT4 RS",
   "brand": "Porsche",
   "category": "Sports cars & GTs",
   "years": "2022–",
   "index_score": 8.2,
   "involvement": 9.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 5.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 6,
   "verdict": "A 9,000 rpm pass for the track.",
   "why": "The GT3's 9,000 rpm engine breathing behind your ear in a smaller car. Flip premiums faded fast, and the cars that remain actually get tracked.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2022,
     165
    ],
    [
     2023,
     250
    ],
    [
     2024,
     230
    ],
    [
     2026,
     210
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 165,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 67,
    "weekend": 41,
    "daily": 26,
    "of": "2022"
   },
   "badges": [
    "Screamer"
   ],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "gt3rs",
   "slug": "porsche-992-gt3-rs",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/porsche-992-gt3-rs/",
   "name": "Porsche 992 GT3 RS",
   "brand": "Porsche",
   "category": "Sports cars & GTs",
   "years": "2022–",
   "index_score": 7.9,
   "involvement": 9.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 4.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 5,
   "verdict": "A track tool with a flipper tax.",
   "why": "Near-race hardware with DRS and a chassis you tune from the wheel. Docked for allocation games and Weissach-spec garage queens.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2022,
     241
    ],
    [
     2023,
     400
    ],
    [
     2024,
     360
    ],
    [
     2026,
     330
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 241,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [
    "Screamer"
   ],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "carreragt",
   "slug": "porsche-carrera-gt",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/porsche-carrera-gt/",
   "name": "Porsche Carrera GT",
   "brand": "Porsche",
   "category": "Sports cars & GTs",
   "years": "2003–2006",
   "index_score": 6.9,
   "involvement": 10,
   "miles_driven_factor": 2.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 5,
   "verdict": "An analog monument, rarely woken.",
   "why": "An NA V10, a gated manual and no electronic net — the most analog supercar of its century. Seven-figure values now keep most of them asleep.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2006,
     420
    ],
    [
     2010,
     350
    ],
    [
     2014,
     500
    ],
    [
     2018,
     750
    ],
    [
     2022,
     1400
    ],
    [
     2026,
     1700
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 448,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 71,
    "weekend": 48,
    "daily": 23,
    "of": "2005"
   },
   "badges": [
    "Garage Queen",
    "F1 DNA"
   ],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "slk55bs",
   "slug": "mercedes-slk-55-amg-black-series",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/mercedes-slk-55-amg-black-series/",
   "name": "Mercedes SLK 55 AMG Black Series",
   "brand": "Mercedes",
   "category": "Sports cars & GTs",
   "years": "2006–2008",
   "index_score": 6.8,
   "involvement": 8,
   "miles_driven_factor": 3.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 4,
   "verdict": "Hardcore oddball turned collector bait.",
   "why": "Fixed roof, flared arches, a hand-finished 400 hp V8 — AMG skunkworks at its strangest. Rarity turned it into collector bait; few see the road.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2008,
     70
    ],
    [
     2013,
     50
    ],
    [
     2017,
     65
    ],
    [
     2021,
     95
    ],
    [
     2026,
     140
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 120,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "812",
   "slug": "ferrari-812-superfast",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/ferrari-812-superfast/",
   "name": "Ferrari 812 Superfast",
   "brand": "Ferrari",
   "category": "Sports cars & GTs",
   "years": "2017–2023",
   "index_score": 6.6,
   "involvement": 9,
   "miles_driven_factor": 4.2,
   "not_flipped_factor": 4.8,
   "verdict": "V12 heart, collector wrapper.",
   "why": "The hardware is a 10 — naturally aspirated V12, 8,900 rpm, rear-wheel drive, the last of its kind. The ownership data pulls it down: median listing shows 1,900 miles a year, and roughly a third of Competiziones resold above sticker within 18 months. An enthusiast's engine in a collector's garage.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2018,
     360
    ],
    [
     2020,
     290
    ],
    [
     2022,
     310
    ],
    [
     2024,
     320
    ],
    [
     2026,
     335
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 365,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 71,
    "weekend": 44,
    "daily": 27,
    "of": "2018 Superfast"
   },
   "badges": [
    "Screamer"
   ],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "diablo",
   "slug": "lamborghini-diablo",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/lamborghini-diablo/",
   "name": "Lamborghini Diablo",
   "brand": "Lamborghini",
   "category": "Sports cars & GTs",
   "years": "1990–2001",
   "index_score": 6.1,
   "involvement": 9,
   "miles_driven_factor": 2.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 4.5,
   "verdict": "The poster car that bites.",
   "why": "Analog V12, gated manual, zero assists and terrible visibility — driving one is an event with consequences. Values and fragility keep annual mileage in the hundreds.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2000,
     150
    ],
    [
     2008,
     130
    ],
    [
     2014,
     200
    ],
    [
     2020,
     280
    ],
    [
     2026,
     400
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 240,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 61,
    "weekend": 42,
    "daily": 19,
    "of": "2001 Diablo 6.0"
   },
   "badges": [
    "Garage Queen"
   ],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "murci",
   "slug": "lamborghini-murci-lago",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/lamborghini-murci-lago/",
   "name": "Lamborghini Murciélago",
   "brand": "Lamborghini",
   "category": "Sports cars & GTs",
   "years": "2001–2010",
   "index_score": 5.9,
   "involvement": 8,
   "miles_driven_factor": 3,
   "not_flipped_factor": 4.5,
   "verdict": "The last clutch-pedal Lambo V12.",
   "why": "The last V12 Lamborghini offered with a clutch pedal, and the gated-manual cars now trade like art. Bought as sculpture more than instrument, and driven accordingly.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2010,
     175
    ],
    [
     2015,
     165
    ],
    [
     2020,
     225
    ],
    [
     2026,
     320
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 285,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 63,
    "weekend": 42,
    "daily": 21,
    "of": "2008 LP640"
   },
   "badges": [],
   "variants": [
    {
     "label": "e-gear",
     "involvement": 8
    },
    {
     "label": "Gated manual",
     "involvement": 9.5
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "slr",
   "slug": "mercedes-slr-mclaren",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/mercedes-slr-mclaren/",
   "name": "Mercedes SLR McLaren",
   "brand": "Mercedes",
   "category": "Sports cars & GTs",
   "years": "2003–2010",
   "index_score": 2.8,
   "involvement": 5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 3,
   "not_flipped_factor": 3.5,
   "verdict": "Monaco cruiser with an F1 badge.",
   "why": "Automatic-only, close to 1.8 tonnes, built for the Croisette rather than the circuit. The F1 badge wrote checks the chassis never cashed.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2010,
     280
    ],
    [
     2015,
     230
    ],
    [
     2020,
     300
    ],
    [
     2026,
     450
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 455,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 63,
    "weekend": 39,
    "daily": 24,
    "of": "2006"
   },
   "badges": [
    "F1 DNA"
   ],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "gt43",
   "slug": "mercedes-amg-gt-43",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/mercedes-amg-gt-43/",
   "name": "Mercedes-AMG GT 43",
   "brand": "Mercedes",
   "category": "Sports cars & GTs",
   "years": "2024–",
   "index_score": 2.6,
   "involvement": 3.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 2,
   "verdict": "GT body, four-cylinder reality.",
   "why": "The GT 63's body over a 2.0-litre four. A styling purchase, and the data shows it: the lowest track-appearance rate in the AMG lineup.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2024,
     100
    ],
    [
     2025,
     85
    ],
    [
     2026,
     77
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 100,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "sl55",
   "slug": "mercedes-sl-55-amg",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/mercedes-sl-55-amg/",
   "name": "Mercedes SL 55 AMG",
   "brand": "Mercedes",
   "category": "Sports cars & GTs",
   "years": "2002–2008",
   "index_score": 2.5,
   "involvement": 3,
   "miles_driven_factor": 4,
   "not_flipped_factor": 3,
   "verdict": "Supercharged sofa for the seafront.",
   "why": "A supercharged V8 sofa — magnificent torque, zero feedback. Bought new by wealth, bought used by optimism; the depreciation curve tells that story.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2008,
     60
    ],
    [
     2015,
     28
    ],
    [
     2020,
     32
    ],
    [
     2026,
     42
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 118,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "sl65",
   "slug": "mercedes-sl-65-amg",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/mercedes-sl-65-amg/",
   "name": "Mercedes SL 65 AMG",
   "brand": "Mercedes",
   "category": "Sports cars & GTs",
   "years": "2004–2011",
   "index_score": 1.8,
   "involvement": 2.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 3,
   "not_flipped_factor": 3,
   "verdict": "V12 torque at boulevard pace.",
   "why": "A 1,000 Nm V12 that no chassis engineer was consulted about. Toll-booth sprints, then valet parking.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2011,
     115
    ],
    [
     2016,
     65
    ],
    [
     2021,
     70
    ],
    [
     2026,
     88
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 189,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [
    "Valet Royalty"
   ],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "sl63",
   "slug": "mercedes-sl-63-s-e-performance",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/mercedes-sl-63-s-e-performance/",
   "name": "Mercedes SL 63 S E Performance",
   "brand": "Mercedes",
   "category": "Sports cars & GTs",
   "years": "2023–",
   "index_score": 1.1,
   "involvement": 1.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 3.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 2,
   "verdict": "A numbers car for zero-effort speed.",
   "why": "Over 2.1 tonnes and more than 800 hybrid horsepower that nobody feels. The definitive numbers car — speed as a line item, not an experience.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2023,
     208
    ],
    [
     2024,
     170
    ],
    [
     2025,
     150
    ],
    [
     2026,
     135
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 208,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [
    "Valet Royalty"
   ],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "macan",
   "slug": "porsche-macan-gts",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/porsche-macan-gts/",
   "name": "Porsche Macan GTS",
   "brand": "Porsche",
   "category": "Performance SUVs",
   "years": "2021–",
   "index_score": 6.4,
   "involvement": 5.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 9.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 9,
   "verdict": "The enthusiast's school run.",
   "why": "Within the SUV world this is the driver's pick: lowered air suspension, a real V6, and owners who put 12,000 miles a year on them without ceremony. Scored against sports cars it couldn't crack the top half — which is exactly why SUVs get their own category from here.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2021,
     84
    ],
    [
     2023,
     68
    ],
    [
     2026,
     60
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 80,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "s2000",
   "slug": "honda-s2000",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/honda-s2000/",
   "name": "Honda S2000",
   "brand": "Honda",
   "category": "JDM icons",
   "years": "1999–2009",
   "index_score": 8.5,
   "involvement": 9,
   "miles_driven_factor": 7,
   "not_flipped_factor": 7.5,
   "verdict": "9,000 rpm and no excuses.",
   "why": "A 9,000 rpm four, a perfect shifter and nothing else. Owners rack up miles because the car is only alive above 6,000 rpm — appreciation hasn't scared them off yet.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2005,
     26
    ],
    [
     2012,
     20
    ],
    [
     2018,
     30
    ],
    [
     2022,
     45
    ],
    [
     2026,
     55
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 34,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 55,
    "weekend": 32,
    "daily": 23,
    "of": "2004 S2000"
   },
   "badges": [
    "Smiles per Dollar",
    "Screamer"
   ],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "rx7",
   "slug": "mazda-rx-7-fd",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/mazda-rx-7-fd/",
   "name": "Mazda RX-7 (FD)",
   "brand": "Mazda",
   "category": "JDM icons",
   "years": "1992–2002",
   "index_score": 8,
   "involvement": 9,
   "miles_driven_factor": 6,
   "not_flipped_factor": 6.5,
   "verdict": "Rotary romance for actual drivers.",
   "why": "A 1.3-litre rotary that demands premix, patience and revs — nobody owns one by accident. Values climbed, but the community still drives and tracks them.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2000,
     20
    ],
    [
     2010,
     22
    ],
    [
     2016,
     40
    ],
    [
     2021,
     60
    ],
    [
     2026,
     80
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 37,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 52,
    "weekend": 34,
    "daily": 18,
    "of": "1994 RX-7"
   },
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "nsx",
   "slug": "honda-nsx-na1",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/honda-nsx-na1/",
   "name": "Honda NSX (NA1)",
   "brand": "Honda",
   "category": "JDM icons",
   "years": "1990–2005",
   "index_score": 7.8,
   "involvement": 9,
   "miles_driven_factor": 5.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 6,
   "verdict": "Everyday supercar, promise mostly kept.",
   "why": "Senna-tuned precision with Civic-grade reliability — the everyday-supercar promise, mostly kept. Collector money arrived late; a healthy share still get driven the way Honda intended.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2000,
     50
    ],
    [
     2010,
     45
    ],
    [
     2016,
     80
    ],
    [
     2020,
     110
    ],
    [
     2026,
     150
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 89,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 56,
    "weekend": 34,
    "daily": 22,
    "of": "1994 Honda NSX"
   },
   "badges": [
    "F1 DNA"
   ],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "supra",
   "slug": "toyota-supra-a80",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/toyota-supra-a80/",
   "name": "Toyota Supra (A80)",
   "brand": "Toyota",
   "category": "JDM icons",
   "years": "1993–2002",
   "index_score": 7.2,
   "involvement": 8,
   "miles_driven_factor": 4,
   "not_flipped_factor": 4.5,
   "verdict": "2JZ legend, now auction bait.",
   "why": "The 2JZ made it a tuning legend; the auction era made it a safe-queen. Unmodified cars now trade as instruments of nostalgia — mileage collapses the moment one crosses six figures.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2000,
     28
    ],
    [
     2010,
     32
    ],
    [
     2016,
     65
    ],
    [
     2019,
     110
    ],
    [
     2022,
     160
    ],
    [
     2026,
     180
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 50,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 57,
    "weekend": 33,
    "daily": 24,
    "of": "1994 Supra Turbo"
   },
   "badges": [],
   "variants": [
    {
     "label": "Twin-turbo · 6MT",
     "involvement": 8
    },
    {
     "label": "Twin-turbo · auto",
     "involvement": 6.5
    },
    {
     "label": "NA (SZ)",
     "involvement": 6
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "r34",
   "slug": "nissan-skyline-gt-r-r34",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/nissan-skyline-gt-r-r34/",
   "name": "Nissan Skyline GT-R (R34)",
   "brand": "Nissan",
   "category": "JDM icons",
   "years": "1999–2002",
   "index_score": 6.7,
   "involvement": 8.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 3,
   "not_flipped_factor": 3.5,
   "verdict": "Import-law unicorn, priced like art.",
   "why": "Peak import mania: 25-year US legality turned the R34 into blue-chip art. The RB26 hardware deserves nines; the sealed-garage ownership pattern doesn't.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2005,
     40
    ],
    [
     2012,
     50
    ],
    [
     2018,
     100
    ],
    [
     2022,
     220
    ],
    [
     2026,
     300
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 45,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 62,
    "weekend": 37,
    "daily": 25,
    "of": "1999 R34"
   },
   "badges": [
    "Flip Bait"
   ],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "cayennetgt",
   "slug": "porsche-cayenne-turbo-gt",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/porsche-cayenne-turbo-gt/",
   "name": "Porsche Cayenne Turbo GT",
   "brand": "Porsche",
   "category": "Performance SUVs",
   "years": "2021–",
   "index_score": 5.2,
   "involvement": 6.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 7.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 7,
   "verdict": "The SUV bought on lap time.",
   "why": "A 2.2-tonne SUV with a Nürburgring record — the only Cayenne bought on lap time. Still a school-run machine five days a week, which is the point of the category.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2022,
     180
    ],
    [
     2024,
     155
    ],
    [
     2026,
     140
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 182,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 70,
    "weekend": 34,
    "daily": 36,
    "of": "2022"
   },
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "urus",
   "slug": "lamborghini-urus",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/lamborghini-urus/",
   "name": "Lamborghini Urus",
   "brand": "Lamborghini",
   "category": "Performance SUVs",
   "years": "2018–",
   "index_score": 1.5,
   "involvement": 3,
   "miles_driven_factor": 5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 3,
   "verdict": "A statement with a chassis.",
   "why": "A genuinely capable chassis under a badge exercise: most are optioned for the valet line, not the canyon. Doug scored it 71 — as a car it's excellent; as a purchase it's a statement.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2019,
     240
    ],
    [
     2022,
     250
    ],
    [
     2026,
     225
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 218,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 71,
    "weekend": 34,
    "daily": 37,
    "of": "2019"
   },
   "badges": [
    "Valet Royalty"
   ],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "g63",
   "slug": "mercedes-amg-g-63",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/mercedes-amg-g-63/",
   "name": "Mercedes-AMG G 63",
   "brand": "Mercedes",
   "category": "The trophy shelf",
   "years": "2018–",
   "index_score": 0.8,
   "involvement": 1.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 5.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 3.5,
   "verdict": "A military box for the valet line.",
   "why": "A military ladder frame in a Monaco parking spot. Waiting lists, sticker premiums and matte wraps — the purest trophy in the index, SUV or otherwise.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2019,
     175
    ],
    [
     2022,
     195
    ],
    [
     2026,
     185
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 148,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 67,
    "weekend": 31,
    "daily": 36,
    "of": "2019 AMG G63"
   },
   "badges": [
    "Valet Royalty"
   ],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "typer",
   "slug": "honda-civic-type-r-fl5",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/honda-civic-type-r-fl5/",
   "name": "Honda Civic Type R (FL5)",
   "brand": "Honda",
   "category": "Hot hatches",
   "years": "2022–",
   "index_score": 7.8,
   "involvement": 8.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 7.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 6,
   "verdict": "Markup survivor, still a tool.",
   "why": "Dealer markups made it a speculation target for a year; then the flippers left and the drivers stayed. Manual-only, tracked often, and daily-driven — the hot-hatch brief, delivered.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2023,
     52
    ],
    [
     2024,
     46
    ],
    [
     2026,
     42
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 44,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 59,
    "weekend": 29,
    "daily": 30,
    "of": "2017 FK8"
   },
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "gryaris",
   "slug": "toyota-gr-yaris",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/toyota-gr-yaris/",
   "name": "Toyota GR Yaris",
   "brand": "Toyota",
   "category": "Hot hatches",
   "years": "2020–",
   "index_score": 7.4,
   "involvement": 8.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 5.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 5,
   "verdict": "Rally homologation, garage temptation.",
   "why": "A genuine homologation special in a supermini suit. Many get rallied and tracked as intended — but limited numbers made 'collector-grade, delivery miles' listings a real thing, on a Yaris.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2021,
     45
    ],
    [
     2023,
     50
    ],
    [
     2026,
     55
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 40,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [
    "Homologation Hero"
   ],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "golfr",
   "slug": "volkswagen-golf-r-mk8",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/volkswagen-golf-r-mk8/",
   "name": "Volkswagen Golf R (Mk8)",
   "brand": "Volkswagen",
   "category": "Hot hatches",
   "years": "2020–",
   "index_score": 6.9,
   "involvement": 6,
   "miles_driven_factor": 9,
   "not_flipped_factor": 8.5,
   "verdict": "Fast everywhere, loud nowhere.",
   "why": "Nobody flips a Golf R and nobody garages one — they commute, tour and occasionally lap. Mid involvement, maximal usage: the quiet professional of the category.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2021,
     44
    ],
    [
     2023,
     36
    ],
    [
     2026,
     31
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 45,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 61,
    "weekend": 30,
    "daily": 31,
    "of": "2022 Golf R"
   },
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "e63",
   "slug": "mercedes-amg-e-63-s-estate",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/mercedes-amg-e-63-s-estate/",
   "name": "Mercedes-AMG E 63 S Estate",
   "brand": "Mercedes",
   "category": "Super saloons & wagons",
   "years": "2017–2023",
   "index_score": 6.6,
   "involvement": 7.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 8.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 8,
   "verdict": "The enthusiast's family truck.",
   "why": "Choosing the wagon over the SUV is itself an enthusiast statement. Owners use all five seats and most of the 612 hp; depreciation curve says workhorse, not trophy.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2018,
     95
    ],
    [
     2022,
     68
    ],
    [
     2026,
     58
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 112,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 72,
    "weekend": 35,
    "daily": 37,
    "of": "2021 E63 Wagon"
   },
   "badges": [
    "Depreciation Hero"
   ],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "m5",
   "slug": "bmw-m5-f90",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/bmw-m5-f90/",
   "name": "BMW M5 (F90)",
   "brand": "BMW",
   "category": "Super saloons & wagons",
   "years": "2017–2024",
   "index_score": 6.2,
   "involvement": 7,
   "miles_driven_factor": 8,
   "not_flipped_factor": 7.5,
   "verdict": "Businessman's missile, actually used.",
   "why": "Bought by people who need one car to do everything and mean it — airport runs at 155 mph (250 km/h) averages. Docked only because half the appeal is the badge on the boot.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2019,
     90
    ],
    [
     2022,
     65
    ],
    [
     2026,
     55
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 104,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 69,
    "weekend": 36,
    "daily": 33,
    "of": "2018 M5"
   },
   "badges": [
    "Depreciation Hero"
   ],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "rs6",
   "slug": "audi-rs6-avant-c8",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/audi-rs6-avant-c8/",
   "name": "Audi RS6 Avant (C8)",
   "brand": "Audi",
   "category": "Super saloons & wagons",
   "years": "2019–",
   "index_score": 5.4,
   "involvement": 6,
   "miles_driven_factor": 8.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 6.5,
   "verdict": "The wagon that replaced the SUV — sometimes.",
   "why": "Half the buyers are wagon romantics who cross-shopped nothing; the other half wanted a Urus with less attention. The ownership data splits right down that line.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2020,
     105
    ],
    [
     2023,
     88
    ],
    [
     2026,
     78
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 110,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 72,
    "weekend": 35,
    "daily": 37,
    "of": "2021 RS6 Avant"
   },
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "e30m3",
   "slug": "bmw-m3-e30",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/bmw-m3-e30/",
   "name": "BMW M3 (E30)",
   "brand": "BMW",
   "category": "Analog classics",
   "years": "1986–1991",
   "index_score": 6.9,
   "involvement": 9.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 3.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 4,
   "verdict": "Homologation royalty, now vaulted.",
   "why": "The touring-car homologation blueprint, and still raced in classic series. But six-figure values moved most road cars into climate-controlled storage — the S14 revs mostly in memory.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2000,
     28
    ],
    [
     2010,
     32
    ],
    [
     2015,
     65
    ],
    [
     2020,
     80
    ],
    [
     2026,
     105
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 34,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 51,
    "weekend": 28,
    "daily": 23,
    "of": "1988 M3"
   },
   "badges": [
    "Flip Bait",
    "Homologation Hero"
   ],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "p964",
   "slug": "porsche-911-964",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/porsche-911-964/",
   "name": "Porsche 911 (964)",
   "brand": "Porsche",
   "category": "Analog classics",
   "years": "1989–1994",
   "index_score": 6.8,
   "involvement": 9,
   "miles_driven_factor": 4.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 5,
   "verdict": "Air-cooled tax in full effect.",
   "why": "The air-cooled boom tripled values in a decade and cut median mileage in half. The cars that still get driven get driven hard — the split between tools and trophies runs through every owners' club meeting.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2000,
     38
    ],
    [
     2010,
     42
    ],
    [
     2016,
     85
    ],
    [
     2021,
     110
    ],
    [
     2026,
     130
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 62,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "integrale",
   "slug": "lancia-delta-hf-integrale",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/lancia-delta-hf-integrale/",
   "name": "Lancia Delta HF Integrale",
   "brand": "Lancia",
   "category": "Analog classics",
   "years": "1987–1994",
   "index_score": 6.5,
   "involvement": 9,
   "miles_driven_factor": 3,
   "not_flipped_factor": 4.5,
   "verdict": "Rally royalty, now stored dry.",
   "why": "Six consecutive WRC titles in its bones, rust in its sills. Fragility plus collector money means most Evos now travel by trailer — the hillclimb faithful keep the score from falling further.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2000,
     22
    ],
    [
     2012,
     28
    ],
    [
     2018,
     60
    ],
    [
     2026,
     100
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 40,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 58,
    "weekend": 34,
    "daily": 24,
    "of": "1993 Evo 2"
   },
   "badges": [
    "Homologation Hero"
   ],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "ioniq5n",
   "slug": "hyundai-ioniq-5-n",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/hyundai-ioniq-5-n/",
   "name": "Hyundai Ioniq 5 N",
   "brand": "Hyundai",
   "category": "Performance EVs",
   "years": "2023–",
   "index_score": 6.8,
   "involvement": 7,
   "miles_driven_factor": 8.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 8.5,
   "verdict": "The EV that argues for the category.",
   "why": "Engineered for involvement — fake gears, real cooling, drift mode that works. Owners daily them and track them, and nobody has figured out how to speculate on a Hyundai. The category's proof of concept.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2024,
     64
    ],
    [
     2025,
     54
    ],
    [
     2026,
     48
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 67,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "taycan",
   "slug": "porsche-taycan-gts",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/porsche-taycan-gts/",
   "name": "Porsche Taycan GTS",
   "brand": "Porsche",
   "category": "Performance EVs",
   "years": "2021–",
   "index_score": 5,
   "involvement": 5.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 7.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 7,
   "verdict": "Precision, minus the noise.",
   "why": "The chassis is real Porsche; the silence divides. Driven plenty, tracked rarely, flipped never — a competent daily express bought by people who already own the weekend car.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2022,
     125
    ],
    [
     2024,
     90
    ],
    [
     2026,
     75
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 134,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 71,
    "weekend": 37,
    "daily": 34,
    "of": "2022 GTS Sport Turismo"
   },
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "plaid",
   "slug": "tesla-model-s-plaid",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/tesla-model-s-plaid/",
   "name": "Tesla Model S Plaid",
   "brand": "Tesla",
   "category": "Performance EVs",
   "years": "2021–",
   "index_score": 1.6,
   "involvement": 1.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 6.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 5,
   "verdict": "1,020 hp for the on-ramp.",
   "why": "The definitive numbers car: a 2.1-second party trick performed twice per ownership. Doug gave it 73 — as transport with comedy acceleration it's superb; as a driver's tool it barely registers.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2022,
     115
    ],
    [
     2024,
     70
    ],
    [
     2026,
     60
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 130,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 73,
    "weekend": 37,
    "daily": 36,
    "of": "2021 Plaid"
   },
   "badges": [
    "Valet Royalty"
   ],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "caterham",
   "slug": "caterham-seven",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/caterham-seven/",
   "name": "Caterham Seven",
   "brand": "Caterham",
   "category": "Lightweights",
   "years": "1973–",
   "index_score": 9.6,
   "involvement": 10,
   "miles_driven_factor": 7,
   "not_flipped_factor": 8.5,
   "verdict": "The reference point.",
   "why": "Fifty years of the same answer: nothing but driving. Zero badge value, zero speculation, near-universal track use. This is the 10 the whole index is measured against — it loses points only to weather.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2015,
     45
    ],
    [
     2020,
     48
    ],
    [
     2026,
     55
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 60,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [
    "Smiles per Dollar"
   ],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "atom",
   "slug": "ariel-atom",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/ariel-atom/",
   "name": "Ariel Atom",
   "brand": "Ariel",
   "category": "Lightweights",
   "years": "2000–",
   "index_score": 9.3,
   "involvement": 10,
   "miles_driven_factor": 5.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 8,
   "verdict": "A chassis with a license plate.",
   "why": "An exoskeleton and an engine; wearing a helmet is the dress code. Almost every one lives at a circuit — the only reason it trails the Seven is you genuinely can't run errands in it.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2015,
     58
    ],
    [
     2020,
     62
    ],
    [
     2026,
     68
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 75,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 57,
    "weekend": 42,
    "daily": 15,
    "of": "2016 Atom 3"
   },
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "elise",
   "slug": "lotus-elise-s2",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/lotus-elise-s2/",
   "name": "Lotus Elise (S2)",
   "brand": "Lotus",
   "category": "Lightweights",
   "years": "2001–2011",
   "index_score": 9,
   "involvement": 9.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 6.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 7.5,
   "verdict": "Feel per kilogram, unbeaten.",
   "why": "Unassisted steering that ruins you for everything else. Values finally climbing, but the community still drives, tracks and tours them — appreciation hasn't yet built the glass case.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2005,
     38
    ],
    [
     2012,
     32
    ],
    [
     2018,
     42
    ],
    [
     2022,
     58
    ],
    [
     2026,
     70
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 47,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "mclarenf1",
   "slug": "mclaren-f1",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/mclaren-f1/",
   "name": "McLaren F1",
   "brand": "McLaren",
   "category": "Sports cars & GTs",
   "years": "1992–1998",
   "index_score": 6.2,
   "involvement": 10,
   "miles_driven_factor": 2,
   "not_flipped_factor": 5.5,
   "verdict": "The greatest car, in the softest bubble.",
   "why": "Center seat, NA V12, gold-lined engine bay — the consensus greatest road car ever built. At $21M nobody buys one to drive it; the owners who do make headlines precisely because it's newsworthy.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2000,
     800
    ],
    [
     2008,
     2200
    ],
    [
     2015,
     9000
    ],
    [
     2021,
     17000
    ],
    [
     2026,
     21000
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 815,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 74,
    "weekend": 47,
    "daily": 27,
    "of": "1994 F1"
   },
   "badges": [
    "Garage Queen",
    "F1 DNA"
   ],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "f40",
   "slug": "ferrari-f40",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/ferrari-f40/",
   "name": "Ferrari F40",
   "brand": "Ferrari",
   "category": "Analog classics",
   "years": "1987–1992",
   "index_score": 6.4,
   "involvement": 10,
   "miles_driven_factor": 2,
   "not_flipped_factor": 4.5,
   "verdict": "The pin-up, permanently pinned up.",
   "why": "Twin turbos, kevlar, no ABS and no apologies — Doug's joint-highest Weekend score ever. Seven-figure values mean the sharpest analog Ferrari mostly appreciates in silence.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2000,
     330
    ],
    [
     2010,
     500
    ],
    [
     2016,
     1000
    ],
    [
     2021,
     1700
    ],
    [
     2026,
     2900
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 400,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 60,
    "weekend": 47,
    "daily": 13,
    "of": "1990 F40"
   },
   "badges": [
    "Garage Queen"
   ],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "e39m5",
   "slug": "bmw-m5-e39",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/bmw-m5-e39/",
   "name": "BMW M5 (E39)",
   "brand": "BMW",
   "category": "Super saloons & wagons",
   "years": "1998–2003",
   "index_score": 7.6,
   "involvement": 8.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 7,
   "not_flipped_factor": 7,
   "verdict": "The benchmark, still commuting.",
   "why": "The super-saloon benchmark, manual-only, still doing school runs a quarter-century later. Values turned years ago but owners keep driving — the anti-R34.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2005,
     38
    ],
    [
     2012,
     22
    ],
    [
     2018,
     38
    ],
    [
     2022,
     60
    ],
    [
     2026,
     75
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 70,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 60,
    "weekend": 32,
    "daily": 28,
    "of": "2000 M5 (E39)"
   },
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "giulia",
   "slug": "alfa-romeo-giulia-quadrifoglio",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/alfa-romeo-giulia-quadrifoglio/",
   "name": "Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio",
   "brand": "Alfa Romeo",
   "category": "Super saloons & wagons",
   "years": "2016–",
   "index_score": 7.2,
   "involvement": 8,
   "miles_driven_factor": 7.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 8,
   "verdict": "Bought with the heart, driven with it too.",
   "why": "Nobody cross-shops a Quadrifoglio — you either get it or you buy the German one. The people who get it drive it hard and keep it long, depreciation be damned.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2018,
     68
    ],
    [
     2022,
     50
    ],
    [
     2026,
     44
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 74,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 63,
    "weekend": 34,
    "daily": 29,
    "of": "2017 Quadrifoglio"
   },
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "evo6",
   "slug": "mitsubishi-lancer-evo-vi",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/mitsubishi-lancer-evo-vi/",
   "name": "Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI",
   "brand": "Mitsubishi",
   "category": "JDM icons",
   "years": "1999–2001",
   "index_score": 6.6,
   "involvement": 8.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 4.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 4,
   "verdict": "Mäkinen's homework, now collector-proofed.",
   "why": "Four WRC titles baked into a rental-grade sedan shell. The Mäkinen cars crossed into collector territory and stopped seeing gravel; the rest still get driven like Mitsubishi intended.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2005,
     25
    ],
    [
     2015,
     35
    ],
    [
     2021,
     60
    ],
    [
     2026,
     80
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 42,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [
    "Flip Bait",
    "Homologation Hero"
   ],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "dc2",
   "slug": "honda-integra-type-r-dc2",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/honda-integra-type-r-dc2/",
   "name": "Honda Integra Type R (DC2)",
   "brand": "Honda",
   "category": "JDM icons",
   "years": "1995–2001",
   "index_score": 7.3,
   "involvement": 9,
   "miles_driven_factor": 5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 4.5,
   "verdict": "The FWD benchmark, being priced away.",
   "why": "Still the front-drive benchmark: hand-ported head, 8,400 rpm, a chassis that shames modern metal. Auction money is building the glass case, but the track-day faithful haven't surrendered yet.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2005,
     14
    ],
    [
     2015,
     20
    ],
    [
     2021,
     50
    ],
    [
     2026,
     70
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 24,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 47,
    "weekend": 25,
    "daily": 22,
    "of": "2001 Integra Type-R"
   },
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "fiestast",
   "slug": "ford-fiesta-st-mk7",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/ford-fiesta-st-mk7/",
   "name": "Ford Fiesta ST (Mk7)",
   "brand": "Ford",
   "category": "Hot hatches",
   "years": "2013–2017",
   "index_score": 8.1,
   "involvement": 7.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 9,
   "not_flipped_factor": 9,
   "verdict": "Maximum grin per euro.",
   "why": "The cheapest real driver's car of its decade — bought with own money, driven daily, worth nothing, worth everything. The purest ownership profile in the index after the Caterham.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2015,
     19
    ],
    [
     2020,
     13
    ],
    [
     2026,
     11
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 22,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 53,
    "weekend": 25,
    "daily": 28,
    "of": "2017 Fiesta ST"
   },
   "badges": [
    "Smiles per Dollar",
    "Depreciation Hero"
   ],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "trackhawk",
   "slug": "jeep-grand-cherokee-trackhawk",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/jeep-grand-cherokee-trackhawk/",
   "name": "Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk",
   "brand": "Jeep",
   "category": "Performance SUVs",
   "years": "2018–2021",
   "index_score": 2.2,
   "involvement": 3,
   "miles_driven_factor": 6,
   "not_flipped_factor": 4,
   "verdict": "A Hellcat for the whole family.",
   "why": "710 supercharged horsepower in a family Jeep — a drag-strip party trick that holds value because nothing replaced it. Bought for the number on the hood vent, driven to Costco.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2019,
     84
    ],
    [
     2022,
     82
    ],
    [
     2026,
     78
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 87,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 66,
    "weekend": 33,
    "daily": 33,
    "of": "2018 Trackhawk"
   },
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "mx5",
   "slug": "mazda-mx-5-nd",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/mazda-mx-5-nd/",
   "name": "Mazda MX-5 (ND)",
   "brand": "Mazda",
   "category": "Sports cars & GTs",
   "years": "2015–",
   "index_score": 8.7,
   "involvement": 8.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 8.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 9,
   "verdict": "The answer, as always.",
   "why": "Cheap, slow on paper, driven everywhere: own money, high miles, zero speculation. The ND does what the badge cars can't — it gets used, which is the entire point of this index.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2016,
     24
    ],
    [
     2020,
     20
    ],
    [
     2023,
     22
    ],
    [
     2026,
     21
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 27,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 55,
    "weekend": 31,
    "daily": 24,
    "of": "2019 MX-5 RF"
   },
   "badges": [
    "Smiles per Dollar"
   ],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "m2g87",
   "slug": "bmw-m2-g87",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/bmw-m2-g87/",
   "name": "BMW M2 (G87)",
   "brand": "BMW",
   "category": "Sports cars & GTs",
   "years": "2023–",
   "index_score": 7.7,
   "involvement": 8,
   "miles_driven_factor": 7.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 7,
   "verdict": "The last manual M car, used like one.",
   "why": "The heaviest small M car ever — and still the one bought to be driven, because it's the last with a clutch pedal. Depreciates like a car whose owners genuinely don't care.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2023,
     66
    ],
    [
     2024,
     60
    ],
    [
     2026,
     56
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 63,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 64,
    "weekend": 34,
    "daily": 30,
    "of": "2017 M2 (F87)"
   },
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "z06c8",
   "slug": "corvette-z06-c8",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/corvette-z06-c8/",
   "name": "Corvette Z06 (C8)",
   "brand": "Chevrolet",
   "category": "Sports cars & GTs",
   "years": "2023–",
   "index_score": 6,
   "involvement": 8.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 4.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 4,
   "verdict": "A Le Mans engine in markup purgatory.",
   "why": "The LT6 is America's finest engine, full stop. Dealer markups and flip culture kept half the run in plastic wrap — the ownership data reads exotic, not Corvette.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2023,
     140
    ],
    [
     2024,
     120
    ],
    [
     2026,
     112
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 106,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [
    "Flip Bait"
   ],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "r8v10",
   "slug": "audi-r8-v10",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/audi-r8-v10/",
   "name": "Audi R8 V10",
   "brand": "Audi",
   "category": "Sports cars & GTs",
   "years": "2015–2023",
   "index_score": 5.6,
   "involvement": 7.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 5.5,
   "verdict": "The approachable supercar, gently parked.",
   "why": "The everyday supercar that mostly gets special-occasion use. NA V10 nostalgia started the value climb the day production ended — the vaulting has begun.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2017,
     150
    ],
    [
     2021,
     130
    ],
    [
     2024,
     150
    ],
    [
     2026,
     165
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 170,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 69,
    "weekend": 41,
    "daily": 28,
    "of": "2017 R8 V10 Plus"
   },
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "r35",
   "slug": "nissan-gt-r-r35",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/nissan-gt-r-r35/",
   "name": "Nissan GT-R (R35)",
   "brand": "Nissan",
   "category": "JDM icons",
   "years": "2009–2024",
   "index_score": 5.8,
   "involvement": 6.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 5.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 5,
   "verdict": "Godzilla, aging into an asset.",
   "why": "Launch-control legend that democratized supercar pace. Production ended and the collector clock started — early cars still get driven, late Nismos get vaulted.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2010,
     75
    ],
    [
     2015,
     70
    ],
    [
     2020,
     85
    ],
    [
     2026,
     110
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 85,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 65,
    "weekend": 40,
    "daily": 25,
    "of": "2017 GT-R Nismo"
   },
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "cla45ev",
   "slug": "mercedes-amg-cla-45-ev",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/mercedes-amg-cla-45-ev/",
   "name": "Mercedes-AMG CLA 45 EV",
   "brand": "Mercedes",
   "category": "Coming soon",
   "years": "2027 (announced)",
   "involvement": 4.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": null,
   "not_flipped_factor": null,
   "verdict": "AMG's four-door electric gamble, now official.",
   "why": "Now announced: three axial-flux motors, 680 hp, torque-vectoring AWD and simulated gearshifts. The involvement engineering is more serious than the spec sheet suggested — provisional read raised accordingly. The Index score still waits for owners to exist.",
   "value_history_usd_k": null,
   "msrp_usd_k": 75,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "m3cshand",
   "slug": "bmw-m3-cs-handschalter",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/bmw-m3-cs-handschalter/",
   "name": "BMW M3 CS Handschalter",
   "brand": "BMW",
   "category": "Coming soon",
   "years": "2027 (announced)",
   "involvement": 9,
   "miles_driven_factor": null,
   "not_flipped_factor": null,
   "verdict": "The last three-pedal M3, pre-marked-up.",
   "why": "BMW's G80 sendoff: the most extreme M3, manual only, rear-drive only, North America only. Dealers started the markups before first delivery — Flip Bait status is pre-ordained, but so is the driving. Provisional involvement is near the top of the scale; whether the cars see roads or vaults decides the score.",
   "value_history_usd_k": null,
   "msrp_usd_k": 135,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "prelude",
   "slug": "honda-prelude",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/honda-prelude/",
   "name": "Honda Prelude",
   "brand": "Honda",
   "category": "Coming soon",
   "years": "2026 (expected)",
   "involvement": 6,
   "miles_driven_factor": null,
   "not_flipped_factor": null,
   "verdict": "The name is back; the clutch pedal isn't.",
   "why": "A beloved nameplate returns as a hybrid coupe with simulated shifts and no manual. Honda's involvement engineering is real — whether buyers drive it or dress in it will decide the score.",
   "value_history_usd_k": null,
   "msrp_usd_k": 35,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "im3",
   "slug": "bmw-im3-neue-klasse",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/bmw-im3-neue-klasse/",
   "name": "BMW iM3 (Neue Klasse)",
   "brand": "BMW",
   "category": "Coming soon",
   "years": "2027 (expected)",
   "involvement": 5,
   "miles_driven_factor": null,
   "not_flipped_factor": null,
   "verdict": "Four motors to recreate one straight-six.",
   "why": "M claims the quad-motor control stack turns torque into an instrument. Prototypes impress the press; the score waits to see whether iM3s commute or hunt apexes.",
   "value_history_usd_k": null,
   "msrp_usd_k": 85,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "roadster2",
   "slug": "tesla-roadster-2nd-gen",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/tesla-roadster-2nd-gen/",
   "name": "Tesla Roadster (2nd gen)",
   "brand": "Tesla",
   "category": "Coming soon",
   "years": "announced 2017",
   "involvement": 2.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": null,
   "not_flipped_factor": null,
   "verdict": "Eight years of deposits, zero owners.",
   "why": "The purest trophy in the index: a car whose entire ownership experience has been a refundable deposit since 2017. Provisional involvement assumes it ships; every number here is theoretical.",
   "value_history_usd_k": null,
   "msrp_usd_k": 200,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "amggtr",
   "slug": "mercedes-amg-gt-r",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/mercedes-amg-gt-r/",
   "name": "Mercedes-AMG GT R",
   "brand": "Mercedes",
   "category": "Sports cars & GTs",
   "years": "2017–2021",
   "index_score": 6.3,
   "involvement": 8.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 4.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 5,
   "verdict": "The Beast of the Green Hell, mostly resting.",
   "why": "AMG's most serious road car — rear steer, nine-way traction, a Nordschleife record at launch. Half get tracked as intended; the green ones increasingly live under covers as the last pre-hybrid AMG halo.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2018,
     150
    ],
    [
     2021,
     130
    ],
    [
     2024,
     150
    ],
    [
     2026,
     165
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 162,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 67,
    "weekend": 40,
    "daily": 27,
    "of": "2018 AMG GT R"
   },
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "c63s",
   "slug": "mercedes-amg-c-63-s-w205",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/mercedes-amg-c-63-s-w205/",
   "name": "Mercedes-AMG C 63 S (W205)",
   "brand": "Mercedes",
   "category": "Super saloons & wagons",
   "years": "2015–2021",
   "index_score": 6.8,
   "involvement": 7.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 7.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 7,
   "verdict": "The last V8 C-Class, driven like it owes rent.",
   "why": "A hand-built V8 in a compact sedan, rear-drive only — the last of its kind, and its owners know it. Values bottomed and turned the day the four-cylinder successor was announced.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2016,
     68
    ],
    [
     2020,
     50
    ],
    [
     2023,
     55
    ],
    [
     2026,
     60
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 76,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "cls53",
   "slug": "mercedes-amg-cls-53",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/mercedes-amg-cls-53/",
   "name": "Mercedes-AMG CLS 53",
   "brand": "Mercedes",
   "category": "Super saloons & wagons",
   "years": "2018–2023",
   "index_score": 4.2,
   "involvement": 3.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 7.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 7,
   "verdict": "The design purchase, dailyed politely.",
   "why": "Bought for the roofline, not the drivetrain — AMG-lite badging on a very good luxury liner. It gets driven plenty, which keeps it off the trophy floor; it just never gets driven for the sake of it.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2019,
     72
    ],
    [
     2022,
     52
    ],
    [
     2026,
     44
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 82,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "a110",
   "slug": "alpine-a110",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/alpine-a110/",
   "name": "Alpine A110",
   "brand": "Alpine",
   "category": "Sports cars & GTs",
   "years": "2017–",
   "index_score": 8.8,
   "involvement": 9,
   "miles_driven_factor": 7,
   "not_flipped_factor": 7.5,
   "verdict": "1,100 kg of French disagreement.",
   "why": "Built light when everyone else gave up, bought only by people who understood the assignment. Never sold in the US — which is the US market's loss, not the score's problem.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2018,
     60
    ],
    [
     2022,
     55
    ],
    [
     2026,
     58
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 65,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [
    "Smiles per Dollar"
   ],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "gt3touring",
   "slug": "porsche-911-gt3-touring",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/porsche-911-gt3-touring/",
   "name": "Porsche 911 GT3 Touring",
   "brand": "Porsche",
   "category": "Sports cars & GTs",
   "years": "2021–",
   "index_score": 8.5,
   "involvement": 9.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 6,
   "not_flipped_factor": 5.5,
   "verdict": "The RS engine in a business suit.",
   "why": "The same 9,000 rpm engine as the RS, minus the wing and the statement. Touring buyers order manuals and drive them — the delete-option spec as an ownership filter.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2022,
     240
    ],
    [
     2023,
     330
    ],
    [
     2024,
     300
    ],
    [
     2026,
     285
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 231,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 68,
    "weekend": 42,
    "daily": 26,
    "of": "2022 GT3 Touring"
   },
   "badges": [
    "Screamer"
   ],
   "variants": [
    {
     "label": "6-speed manual",
     "involvement": 9.5
    },
    {
     "label": "PDK",
     "involvement": 8.5
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "gr86",
   "slug": "toyota-gr86",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/toyota-gr86/",
   "name": "Toyota GR86",
   "brand": "Toyota",
   "category": "Sports cars & GTs",
   "years": "2022–",
   "index_score": 8.3,
   "involvement": 8,
   "miles_driven_factor": 8,
   "not_flipped_factor": 8.5,
   "verdict": "Momentum, taught affordably.",
   "why": "The cheapest RWD manual coupe on sale, bought to learn car control and used exactly that way. Track-day sign-in sheets are full of them.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2022,
     28
    ],
    [
     2024,
     26
    ],
    [
     2026,
     25
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 30,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 56,
    "weekend": 30,
    "daily": 26,
    "of": "2022 GR86"
   },
   "badges": [
    "Smiles per Dollar"
   ],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "p944",
   "slug": "porsche-944",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/porsche-944/",
   "name": "Porsche 944",
   "brand": "Porsche",
   "category": "Analog classics",
   "years": "1982–1991",
   "index_score": 8,
   "involvement": 7.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 6.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 7.5,
   "verdict": "The affordable Porsche that stayed honest.",
   "why": "Transaxle balance and parts-bin prices kept it a driver's classic while everything air-cooled went to auction. Still the right answer to 'first track car'.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2000,
     8
    ],
    [
     2010,
     7
    ],
    [
     2016,
     12
    ],
    [
     2021,
     20
    ],
    [
     2026,
     28
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 30,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [
    "Smiles per Dollar"
   ],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "blackwing",
   "slug": "cadillac-ct5-v-blackwing",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/cadillac-ct5-v-blackwing/",
   "name": "Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing",
   "brand": "Cadillac",
   "category": "Super saloons & wagons",
   "years": "2022–",
   "index_score": 7.8,
   "involvement": 9,
   "miles_driven_factor": 6,
   "not_flipped_factor": 5,
   "verdict": "A supercharged V8 and a stick, from Cadillac.",
   "why": "The last supercharged V8 super-sedan with a clutch pedal, and buyers know it — manual take rate near half, collector hedging already visible in the flip data.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2022,
     95
    ],
    [
     2024,
     85
    ],
    [
     2026,
     82
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 85,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 68,
    "weekend": 35,
    "daily": 33,
    "of": "2022 CT5-V Blackwing"
   },
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "e46m3",
   "slug": "bmw-m3-e46",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/bmw-m3-e46/",
   "name": "BMW M3 (E46)",
   "brand": "BMW",
   "category": "Analog classics",
   "years": "2000–2006",
   "index_score": 7.4,
   "involvement": 8.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 5.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 5,
   "verdict": "The balance benchmark, priced accordingly.",
   "why": "The S54 and the last hydraulic-steering M3 — the community's balance benchmark. CSL money went collector; clean coupes are following, but plenty still earn their keep on track.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2005,
     30
    ],
    [
     2012,
     18
    ],
    [
     2018,
     30
    ],
    [
     2022,
     45
    ],
    [
     2026,
     60
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 48,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 54,
    "weekend": 30,
    "daily": 24,
    "of": "2004 M3 (E46)"
   },
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "gtimk8",
   "slug": "vw-golf-gti-mk8",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/vw-golf-gti-mk8/",
   "name": "VW Golf GTI (Mk8)",
   "brand": "Volkswagen",
   "category": "Hot hatches",
   "years": "2020–",
   "index_score": 7.5,
   "involvement": 6.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 9,
   "not_flipped_factor": 9,
   "verdict": "The default answer, still correct.",
   "why": "Forty-five years in, still the car people buy to drive every single day. The touchscreen HVAC cost it involvement points; the ownership pattern is untouched.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2021,
     30
    ],
    [
     2024,
     24
    ],
    [
     2026,
     21
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 32,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 57,
    "weekend": 26,
    "daily": 31,
    "of": "2022 GTI (Mk8)"
   },
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "rx8",
   "slug": "mazda-rx-8",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/mazda-rx-8/",
   "name": "Mazda RX-8",
   "brand": "Mazda",
   "category": "JDM icons",
   "years": "2003–2012",
   "index_score": 7.6,
   "involvement": 8,
   "miles_driven_factor": 6.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 8,
   "verdict": "Apex seals sold separately.",
   "why": "A 9,000 rpm rotary for used-hatchback money — ownership as commitment. Nobody speculates on a car that needs a rebuild fund; everybody left drives it.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2005,
     22
    ],
    [
     2012,
     8
    ],
    [
     2018,
     7
    ],
    [
     2022,
     10
    ],
    [
     2026,
     14
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 27,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 53,
    "weekend": 29,
    "daily": 24,
    "of": "2006 RX-8 Shinka"
   },
   "badges": [
    "Depreciation Hero",
    "Screamer"
   ],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "isf",
   "slug": "lexus-is-f",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/lexus-is-f/",
   "name": "Lexus IS F",
   "brand": "Lexus",
   "category": "Super saloons & wagons",
   "years": "2008–2014",
   "index_score": 7.2,
   "involvement": 7,
   "miles_driven_factor": 6.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 7.5,
   "verdict": "The reliability play for V8 addicts.",
   "why": "A hand-assembled NA V8 that starts every morning for 300,000 miles. The cult found it late; owners buy to keep, and the values quietly turned.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2010,
     45
    ],
    [
     2015,
     30
    ],
    [
     2020,
     35
    ],
    [
     2026,
     48
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 58,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "wrxsti",
   "slug": "subaru-wrx-sti-gd",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/subaru-wrx-sti-gd/",
   "name": "Subaru WRX STI (GD)",
   "brand": "Subaru",
   "category": "JDM icons",
   "years": "2004–2007",
   "index_score": 7.1,
   "involvement": 7.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 6.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 5.5,
   "verdict": "Rally blue, gravel optional.",
   "why": "The everyman's rally car, driven year-round in places sports cars hibernate. Clean unmodified examples got collector money; the rest are still being driven as intended — hard.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2005,
     28
    ],
    [
     2012,
     20
    ],
    [
     2018,
     25
    ],
    [
     2022,
     35
    ],
    [
     2026,
     42
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 33,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 54,
    "weekend": 29,
    "daily": 25,
    "of": "2004 WRX STI"
   },
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "ae86",
   "slug": "toyota-ae86",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/toyota-ae86/",
   "name": "Toyota AE86",
   "brand": "Toyota",
   "category": "JDM icons",
   "years": "1983–1987",
   "index_score": 7,
   "involvement": 9,
   "miles_driven_factor": 4.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 4,
   "verdict": "The drift tax made it a unicorn.",
   "why": "A 950 kg momentum lesson that anime turned into an asset class. The cars that survived the drift era now cost real money — and increasingly sit still because of it.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2000,
     5
    ],
    [
     2010,
     8
    ],
    [
     2016,
     18
    ],
    [
     2021,
     35
    ],
    [
     2026,
     50
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 10,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [
    "Flip Bait"
   ],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "g80m3",
   "slug": "bmw-m3-g80",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/bmw-m3-g80/",
   "name": "BMW M3 (G80)",
   "brand": "BMW",
   "category": "Super saloons & wagons",
   "years": "2021–",
   "index_score": 7,
   "involvement": 7.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 7.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 7,
   "verdict": "Forgive the face, respect the usage.",
   "why": "The grille argument never stopped; the cars got driven anyway. Manual take rate healthy, wagons and sedans doing family duty at speed — the M3 brief, intact.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2021,
     75
    ],
    [
     2023,
     62
    ],
    [
     2026,
     57
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 70,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 68,
    "weekend": 34,
    "daily": 34,
    "of": "2021 M3 (G80)"
   },
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "c8",
   "slug": "corvette-stingray-c8",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/corvette-stingray-c8/",
   "name": "Corvette Stingray (C8)",
   "brand": "Chevrolet",
   "category": "Sports cars & GTs",
   "years": "2020–",
   "index_score": 6.9,
   "involvement": 7.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 7,
   "not_flipped_factor": 6,
   "verdict": "Mid-engine for the many.",
   "why": "Supercar layout at sedan money, and most get genuinely driven — the retiree road-trip Corvette tradition survived the engine moving backwards.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2020,
     75
    ],
    [
     2022,
     70
    ],
    [
     2024,
     62
    ],
    [
     2026,
     58
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 68,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 64,
    "weekend": 38,
    "daily": 26,
    "of": "2020 C8"
   },
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "f355",
   "slug": "ferrari-f355",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/ferrari-f355/",
   "name": "Ferrari F355",
   "brand": "Ferrari",
   "category": "Analog classics",
   "years": "1994–1999",
   "index_score": 6.7,
   "involvement": 9.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 3.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 4.5,
   "verdict": "The best-sounding Ferrari, billed hourly.",
   "why": "An 8,500 rpm gated-manual V8 many call peak Ferrari — attached to an engine-out service bill that keeps annual mileage in four digits. Driven briefly, savored completely.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2000,
     60
    ],
    [
     2010,
     55
    ],
    [
     2016,
     75
    ],
    [
     2021,
     100
    ],
    [
     2026,
     140
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 130,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 56,
    "weekend": 39,
    "daily": 17,
    "of": "1998 F355"
   },
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "z32",
   "slug": "nissan-300zx-z32",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/nissan-300zx-z32/",
   "name": "Nissan 300ZX (Z32)",
   "brand": "Nissan",
   "category": "JDM icons",
   "years": "1989–2000",
   "index_score": 6.4,
   "involvement": 7,
   "miles_driven_factor": 4.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 5,
   "verdict": "The tech flagship, aging into respect.",
   "why": "Japan's bubble-era tech statement — twin turbos, four-wheel steer, a cockpit from a fighter jet. Survivors are thinning into collections while the faithful keep the rest running.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2000,
     12
    ],
    [
     2010,
     10
    ],
    [
     2016,
     15
    ],
    [
     2021,
     25
    ],
    [
     2026,
     35
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 34,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "emira",
   "slug": "lotus-emira",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/lotus-emira/",
   "name": "Lotus Emira",
   "brand": "Lotus",
   "category": "Sports cars & GTs",
   "years": "2022–",
   "index_score": 7.8,
   "involvement": 8.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 6.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 6.5,
   "verdict": "The last petrol Lotus, driven like a first.",
   "why": "Hethel's last combustion car, bought by people who know exactly what that sentence means. Early cars get driven; the 'final V6 manual' hoarding hasn't started yet.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2022,
     95
    ],
    [
     2024,
     82
    ],
    [
     2026,
     78
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 85,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [],
   "variants": [
    {
     "label": "V6 SE · manual",
     "involvement": 8.5
    },
    {
     "label": "Turbo SE · I4",
     "involvement": 7
    },
    {
     "label": "V6 auto (2022–24)",
     "involvement": 7.5
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "vantage",
   "slug": "aston-martin-vantage",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/aston-martin-vantage/",
   "name": "Aston Martin Vantage",
   "brand": "Aston Martin",
   "category": "Sports cars & GTs",
   "years": "2018–",
   "index_score": 5.9,
   "involvement": 7,
   "miles_driven_factor": 5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 5.5,
   "verdict": "Bond cosplay with real bones.",
   "why": "A genuinely sorted chassis under a badge bought for the theatre of it. The AMG-Aston split personality shows in the data: some tour Europe, most park outside dinner.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2019,
     120
    ],
    [
     2022,
     90
    ],
    [
     2026,
     82
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 140,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 67,
    "weekend": 39,
    "daily": 28,
    "of": "2019 Vantage"
   },
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "stelvioqv",
   "slug": "alfa-stelvio-quadrifoglio",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/alfa-stelvio-quadrifoglio/",
   "name": "Alfa Stelvio Quadrifoglio",
   "brand": "Alfa Romeo",
   "category": "Performance SUVs",
   "years": "2017–",
   "index_score": 4.9,
   "involvement": 6,
   "miles_driven_factor": 7.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 6.5,
   "verdict": "The Giulia's tall accomplice.",
   "why": "The Giulia QV drivetrain for people who needed the ride height excuse. Driven like the sedan, depreciates like the badge — the most enthusiast-adjacent SUV after the Macan.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2018,
     80
    ],
    [
     2022,
     55
    ],
    [
     2026,
     48
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 87,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 66,
    "weekend": 34,
    "daily": 32,
    "of": "2020 Stelvio QV"
   },
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "nevera",
   "slug": "rimac-nevera",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/rimac-nevera/",
   "name": "Rimac Nevera",
   "brand": "Rimac",
   "category": "Performance EVs",
   "years": "2021–",
   "index_score": 1.9,
   "involvement": 5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 1.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 3,
   "verdict": "1,914 hp, delivered to storage.",
   "why": "The fastest-accelerating production car ever built, bought almost exclusively as a technological artifact. Doug scored it 72; the delivery-mileage listings score it here.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2022,
     2200
    ],
    [
     2024,
     2000
    ],
    [
     2026,
     1900
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 2200,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 72,
    "weekend": 47,
    "daily": 25,
    "of": "2021 Nevera"
   },
   "badges": [
    "Garage Queen"
   ],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "p205gti",
   "slug": "peugeot-205-gti",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/peugeot-205-gti/",
   "name": "Peugeot 205 GTI",
   "brand": "Peugeot",
   "category": "Hot hatches",
   "years": "1984–1994",
   "index_score": 7.7,
   "involvement": 9,
   "miles_driven_factor": 5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 5.5,
   "verdict": "The hot hatch blueprint, now blueprint-priced.",
   "why": "The reference hot hatch — 880 kg, telepathic, famously spiteful on lift. Collector money arrived in the last decade; the ones outside collections still get driven properly.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2000,
     4
    ],
    [
     2010,
     5
    ],
    [
     2016,
     12
    ],
    [
     2021,
     22
    ],
    [
     2026,
     30
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 12,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "lfa",
   "slug": "lexus-lfa",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/lexus-lfa/",
   "name": "Lexus LFA",
   "brand": "Lexus",
   "category": "Sports cars & GTs",
   "years": "2010–2012",
   "index_score": 6.6,
   "involvement": 8.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 2.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 5,
   "verdict": "The 9,500 rpm apology letter.",
   "why": "The V10 is a perfect-10 powertrain — response, sound, 9,500 rpm — bolted to a single-clutch gearbox the road testers called outdated at launch, which caps the involvement number. Values tripled anyway; the singing intake mostly performs in climate control.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2012,
     375
    ],
    [
     2016,
     400
    ],
    [
     2020,
     600
    ],
    [
     2023,
     850
    ],
    [
     2026,
     1000
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 375,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 64,
    "weekend": 39,
    "daily": 25,
    "of": "2012 LFA"
   },
   "badges": [
    "Garage Queen",
    "Screamer"
   ],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "m720s",
   "slug": "mclaren-720s",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/mclaren-720s/",
   "name": "McLaren 720S",
   "brand": "McLaren",
   "category": "Sports cars & GTs",
   "years": "2017–2023",
   "index_score": 5.7,
   "involvement": 8.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 4,
   "not_flipped_factor": 4,
   "verdict": "Devastating pace, revolving owners.",
   "why": "Faster than anything near the price and traded like a position: short hold times, spec-flipping, depreciation anxiety. The pace is real; the attachment isn't.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2018,
     260
    ],
    [
     2021,
     190
    ],
    [
     2024,
     200
    ],
    [
     2026,
     210
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 285,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 69,
    "weekend": 44,
    "daily": 25,
    "of": "2017 720S"
   },
   "badges": [
    "Flip Bait"
   ],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "nissanz",
   "slug": "nissan-z-rz34",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/nissan-z-rz34/",
   "name": "Nissan Z (RZ34)",
   "brand": "Nissan",
   "category": "Sports cars & GTs",
   "years": "2023–",
   "index_score": 7.3,
   "involvement": 7.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 7,
   "not_flipped_factor": 7,
   "verdict": "Old bones, honest mission.",
   "why": "A parts-bin love letter — old platform, new twin-turbo, a manual as standard. Bought by people who wanted exactly this, and driven accordingly.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2023,
     45
    ],
    [
     2024,
     40
    ],
    [
     2026,
     37
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 42,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 62,
    "weekend": 35,
    "daily": 27,
    "of": "2023 Nissan Z"
   },
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "namiata",
   "slug": "mazda-mx-5-na",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/mazda-mx-5-na/",
   "name": "Mazda MX-5 (NA)",
   "brand": "Mazda",
   "category": "Analog classics",
   "years": "1989–1997",
   "index_score": 8.6,
   "involvement": 8.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 7,
   "not_flipped_factor": 7.5,
   "verdict": "Where the answer started.",
   "why": "Pop-ups, 950 kg, and thirty-five years of being driven to death and loved for it. Collector money circles the clean ones; the rest keep autocrossing.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2000,
     5
    ],
    [
     2010,
     4
    ],
    [
     2016,
     7
    ],
    [
     2021,
     12
    ],
    [
     2026,
     18
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 14,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 51,
    "weekend": 28,
    "daily": 23,
    "of": "1993 NA Miata"
   },
   "badges": [
    "Smiles per Dollar"
   ],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "d240z",
   "slug": "datsun-240z",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/datsun-240z/",
   "name": "Datsun 240Z",
   "brand": "Datsun",
   "category": "Analog classics",
   "years": "1969–1973",
   "index_score": 7.5,
   "involvement": 8.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 4,
   "not_flipped_factor": 5,
   "verdict": "The first affordable exotic, twice.",
   "why": "Japan's first world-beater — cheap, gorgeous, rust-prone. Survivors went collector a decade ago, but the L24's song still gets exercised at sunrise events.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2000,
     12
    ],
    [
     2010,
     15
    ],
    [
     2016,
     25
    ],
    [
     2021,
     40
    ],
    [
     2026,
     55
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 4,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "e60m5",
   "slug": "bmw-m5-e60",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/bmw-m5-e60/",
   "name": "BMW M5 (E60)",
   "brand": "BMW",
   "category": "Super saloons & wagons",
   "years": "2005–2010",
   "index_score": 6.4,
   "involvement": 8,
   "miles_driven_factor": 5.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 6,
   "verdict": "An F1 V10 with a rod-bearing subscription.",
   "why": "8,250 rpm of V10 lunacy in a business sedan, SMG warts and all. Running costs cull the poseurs — whoever still owns one drives it, and budgets for it.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2007,
     85
    ],
    [
     2012,
     35
    ],
    [
     2018,
     28
    ],
    [
     2022,
     38
    ],
    [
     2026,
     48
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 90,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 54,
    "weekend": 31,
    "daily": 23,
    "of": "2006 M5 (E60)"
   },
   "badges": [
    "Depreciation Hero"
   ],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "ek9",
   "slug": "honda-civic-type-r-ek9",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/honda-civic-type-r-ek9/",
   "name": "Honda Civic Type R (EK9)",
   "brand": "Honda",
   "category": "JDM icons",
   "years": "1997–2000",
   "index_score": 8,
   "involvement": 9,
   "miles_driven_factor": 5.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 5,
   "verdict": "B16B: the small engine that could, forever.",
   "why": "A hand-ported 1.6 spinning to 8,400 rpm in a 1,070 kg shell, JDM-only. Import prices doubled; the faithful still run touge and track days.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2005,
     10
    ],
    [
     2012,
     12
    ],
    [
     2018,
     25
    ],
    [
     2022,
     40
    ],
    [
     2026,
     50
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 22,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [
    "Smiles per Dollar"
   ],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "gt3000",
   "slug": "mitsubishi-3000gt-vr-4",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/mitsubishi-3000gt-vr-4/",
   "name": "Mitsubishi 3000GT VR-4",
   "brand": "Mitsubishi",
   "category": "JDM icons",
   "years": "1990–2000",
   "index_score": 6.2,
   "involvement": 6.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 4.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 5.5,
   "verdict": "The tech barge finally getting respect.",
   "why": "Twin turbos, AWD, four-wheel steering, active aero — 90s Mitsubishi showing off everything at once. Heavy then, collectible now; the survivors mostly cruise.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2000,
     15
    ],
    [
     2010,
     12
    ],
    [
     2016,
     18
    ],
    [
     2021,
     30
    ],
    [
     2026,
     40
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 45,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 54,
    "weekend": 30,
    "daily": 24,
    "of": "1999 3000GT VR-4"
   },
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "cliov6",
   "slug": "renault-clio-v6",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/renault-clio-v6/",
   "name": "Renault Clio V6",
   "brand": "Renault",
   "category": "Hot hatches",
   "years": "2001–2005",
   "index_score": 6.5,
   "involvement": 8.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 3.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 4.5,
   "verdict": "A mid-engine hot hatch, briefly legal.",
   "why": "Renault put a V6 where the shopping used to go, snap-oversteer included. Collector prices ended its hooligan era; the brave still drive them properly.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2005,
     25
    ],
    [
     2012,
     20
    ],
    [
     2018,
     45
    ],
    [
     2022,
     70
    ],
    [
     2026,
     90
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 40,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "morgan",
   "slug": "morgan-plus-four",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/morgan-plus-four/",
   "name": "Morgan Plus Four",
   "brand": "Morgan",
   "category": "Lightweights",
   "years": "2020–",
   "index_score": 8.2,
   "involvement": 8.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 6,
   "not_flipped_factor": 7.5,
   "verdict": "A wooden frame and no irony.",
   "why": "Ash frame, BMW turbo four, zero aerodynamic ambition. Bought for Sunday and driven most days — the waiting list is patient people, not speculators.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2021,
     80
    ],
    [
     2024,
     75
    ],
    [
     2026,
     72
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 85,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "bacmono",
   "slug": "bac-mono",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/bac-mono/",
   "name": "BAC Mono",
   "brand": "BAC",
   "category": "Lightweights",
   "years": "2011–",
   "index_score": 9.4,
   "involvement": 10,
   "miles_driven_factor": 5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 8,
   "verdict": "A single seat, a single purpose.",
   "why": "One seat, slick-adjacent tires, a sequential box — the road-legal formula car. Every single one lives at a circuit; Doug's Weekend 46 against Daily 16 says it all.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2016,
     200
    ],
    [
     2021,
     210
    ],
    [
     2026,
     230
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 240,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 62,
    "weekend": 46,
    "daily": 16,
    "of": "2015 BAC Mono"
   },
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "x5m",
   "slug": "bmw-x5-m",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/bmw-x5-m/",
   "name": "BMW X5 M",
   "brand": "BMW",
   "category": "Performance SUVs",
   "years": "2020–",
   "index_score": 2.4,
   "involvement": 4,
   "miles_driven_factor": 6.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 4.5,
   "verdict": "The school run, supercharged by ego.",
   "why": "617 hp of commuting theatre. Nobody tracks one, nobody keeps one past the lease, and the badge does all the talking — the segment's thesis, restated in Bavarian.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2020,
     115
    ],
    [
     2023,
     85
    ],
    [
     2026,
     72
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 128,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "i4m50",
   "slug": "bmw-i4-m50",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/bmw-i4-m50/",
   "name": "BMW i4 M50",
   "brand": "BMW",
   "category": "Performance EVs",
   "years": "2022–",
   "index_score": 3.8,
   "involvement": 4.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 8,
   "not_flipped_factor": 6.5,
   "verdict": "The quiet commuter in an M costume.",
   "why": "Genuinely quick, dailyed constantly, involving never. The M badge writes checks the silence can't cash — but as transport it's excellent, which is rather the point.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2022,
     62
    ],
    [
     2024,
     45
    ],
    [
     2026,
     38
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 68,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 65,
    "weekend": 31,
    "daily": 34,
    "of": "2022 i4 M50"
   },
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "supraa90",
   "slug": "toyota-gr-supra-a90",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/toyota-gr-supra-a90/",
   "name": "Toyota GR Supra (A90)",
   "brand": "Toyota",
   "category": "Sports cars & GTs",
   "years": "2019–",
   "index_score": 7,
   "involvement": 7.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 7,
   "not_flipped_factor": 6,
   "verdict": "The BMW handshake that worked.",
   "why": "The purists litigated the BMW bones for years while owners just drove the thing. The manual's arrival settled the argument — and the tuner scene adopted the B58 like it was a 2JZ.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2020,
     55
    ],
    [
     2022,
     48
    ],
    [
     2024,
     45
    ],
    [
     2026,
     43
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 52,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 62,
    "weekend": 33,
    "daily": 29,
    "of": "2021 Supra 3.0"
   },
   "badges": [],
   "variants": [
    {
     "label": "3.0 · auto",
     "involvement": 7.5
    },
    {
     "label": "3.0 · 6MT (2023–)",
     "involvement": 8
    },
    {
     "label": "2.0",
     "involvement": 6
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "f458",
   "slug": "ferrari-458-italia",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/ferrari-458-italia/",
   "name": "Ferrari 458 Italia",
   "brand": "Ferrari",
   "category": "Sports cars & GTs",
   "years": "2009–2015",
   "index_score": 6.8,
   "involvement": 9,
   "miles_driven_factor": 4.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 5,
   "verdict": "The last NA Ferrari V8, priced like it knows.",
   "why": "The final naturally aspirated mid-engine Ferrari V8 — the 812's story one segment down. Values turned the day the turbocharged 488 appeared; the faithful still drive theirs, the investors increasingly don't.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2011,
     230
    ],
    [
     2016,
     180
    ],
    [
     2020,
     195
    ],
    [
     2023,
     230
    ],
    [
     2026,
     260
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 240,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 71,
    "weekend": 45,
    "daily": 26,
    "of": "2015 458 Speciale A"
   },
   "badges": [
    "Screamer"
   ],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "gallardo",
   "slug": "lamborghini-gallardo",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/lamborghini-gallardo/",
   "name": "Lamborghini Gallardo",
   "brand": "Lamborghini",
   "category": "Sports cars & GTs",
   "years": "2003–2013",
   "index_score": 6.3,
   "involvement": 7.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 5.5,
   "verdict": "The Lambo that actually got driven.",
   "why": "Fourteen thousand built — mass production by Sant'Agata standards — which kept prices sane and cars on the road for two decades. The gated manuals have left for the vaults; the e-gears still work for a living.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2005,
     175
    ],
    [
     2012,
     110
    ],
    [
     2018,
     120
    ],
    [
     2022,
     140
    ],
    [
     2026,
     160
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 180,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [],
   "variants": [
    {
     "label": "e-gear",
     "involvement": 7.5
    },
    {
     "label": "Gated manual",
     "involvement": 9
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "huracan",
   "slug": "lamborghini-hurac-n",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/lamborghini-hurac-n/",
   "name": "Lamborghini Huracán",
   "brand": "Lamborghini",
   "category": "Sports cars & GTs",
   "years": "2014–2024",
   "index_score": 5.2,
   "involvement": 7.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 4,
   "not_flipped_factor": 4,
   "verdict": "The rental-exotic economy, in one car.",
   "why": "A forever-great NA V10 attached to the shortest ownership cycles on the site: experience fleets, content props, twelve-month holds. The STO and Tecnica buyers redeem the average; the spec sheet deserved better company.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2016,
     220
    ],
    [
     2020,
     190
    ],
    [
     2024,
     210
    ],
    [
     2026,
     220
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 240,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 71,
    "weekend": 45,
    "daily": 26,
    "of": "2020 Huracán Evo Spyder"
   },
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "aventador",
   "slug": "lamborghini-aventador",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/lamborghini-aventador/",
   "name": "Lamborghini Aventador",
   "brand": "Lamborghini",
   "category": "Sports cars & GTs",
   "years": "2011–2022",
   "index_score": 4.6,
   "involvement": 7,
   "miles_driven_factor": 3,
   "not_flipped_factor": 3.5,
   "verdict": "The poster car that stayed a poster.",
   "why": "The scissor-door flagship bought overwhelmingly for what it says at the valet stand. The ISR gearbox punishes commitment, the V12 rewards it, and most owners never find out which wins.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2012,
     400
    ],
    [
     2017,
     300
    ],
    [
     2021,
     350
    ],
    [
     2026,
     420
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 400,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 70,
    "weekend": 46,
    "daily": 24,
    "of": "2019 Aventador SVJ"
   },
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "p918",
   "slug": "porsche-918-spyder",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/porsche-918-spyder/",
   "name": "Porsche 918 Spyder",
   "brand": "Porsche",
   "category": "Sports cars & GTs",
   "years": "2013–2015",
   "index_score": 5.8,
   "involvement": 9,
   "miles_driven_factor": 2.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 4.5,
   "verdict": "The trinity's engineer, vaulted with honors.",
   "why": "The hybrid-trinity member most likely to actually get driven — Porsche people occasionally being Porsche people — but seven-figure values still win most days. Doug's 72 measures the machine; our 5.8 measures the garage.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2015,
     845
    ],
    [
     2018,
     1200
    ],
    [
     2021,
     1400
    ],
    [
     2026,
     1900
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 845,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 72,
    "weekend": 48,
    "daily": 24,
    "of": "2015 918 Spyder"
   },
   "badges": [
    "Garage Queen",
    "Screamer"
   ],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "p1road",
   "slug": "mclaren-p1",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/mclaren-p1/",
   "name": "McLaren P1",
   "brand": "McLaren",
   "category": "Sports cars & GTs",
   "years": "2013–2015",
   "index_score": 5.3,
   "involvement": 9,
   "miles_driven_factor": 2,
   "not_flipped_factor": 4,
   "verdict": "Batmobile spec, bank-vault life.",
   "why": "The wildest of the trinity to drive and the least driven of the three — IPAS, DRS, and delivery mileage. The famous exceptions who lap theirs make headlines precisely because they're exceptions.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2015,
     1400
    ],
    [
     2019,
     1100
    ],
    [
     2022,
     1300
    ],
    [
     2026,
     1600
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 1150,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 71,
    "weekend": 48,
    "daily": 23,
    "of": "2014 P1"
   },
   "badges": [
    "Garage Queen",
    "Flip Bait"
   ],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "laferrari",
   "slug": "ferrari-laferrari",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/ferrari-laferrari/",
   "name": "Ferrari LaFerrari",
   "brand": "Ferrari",
   "category": "Sports cars & GTs",
   "years": "2013–2016",
   "index_score": 5,
   "involvement": 9.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 2,
   "not_flipped_factor": 3.5,
   "verdict": "The apex predator of climate-controlled storage.",
   "why": "Doug's highest Weekend score ever recorded — 49 of 50 — attached to the most asset-managed ownership base in this index. Application-only allocation bred application-only driving.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2016,
     3000
    ],
    [
     2020,
     2800
    ],
    [
     2023,
     3200
    ],
    [
     2026,
     3500
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 1400,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 72,
    "weekend": 49,
    "daily": 23,
    "of": "2015 LaFerrari"
   },
   "badges": [
    "Garage Queen",
    "Screamer",
    "Flip Bait"
   ],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "sls",
   "slug": "mercedes-benz-sls-amg",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/mercedes-benz-sls-amg/",
   "name": "Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG",
   "brand": "Mercedes",
   "category": "Sports cars & GTs",
   "years": "2010–2014",
   "index_score": 6,
   "involvement": 8,
   "miles_driven_factor": 4,
   "not_flipped_factor": 5,
   "verdict": "Gullwing theatre over a real chassis.",
   "why": "The last fully AMG-developed car of its era: dry-sump 6.2, rear transaxle, doors that are pure showmanship bolted to a genuinely serious chassis. Half the buyers came for the doors; values now reward both halves.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2011,
     190
    ],
    [
     2016,
     140
    ],
    [
     2020,
     170
    ],
    [
     2023,
     220
    ],
    [
     2026,
     260
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 200,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 65,
    "weekend": 41,
    "daily": 24,
    "of": "2012 SLS AMG"
   },
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "viperacr",
   "slug": "dodge-viper-acr-gen-v",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/dodge-viper-acr-gen-v/",
   "name": "Dodge Viper ACR (Gen V)",
   "brand": "Dodge",
   "category": "Sports cars & GTs",
   "years": "2016–2017",
   "index_score": 7.6,
   "involvement": 9.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 4.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 6,
   "verdict": "America's lap-record project car.",
   "why": "Manual-only, 8.4 litres, and a stack of production-car lap records set partly by owners' crowdfunded efforts. Track-day sightings per car built are among the highest here — the anti-Aventador.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2017,
     120
    ],
    [
     2020,
     140
    ],
    [
     2023,
     180
    ],
    [
     2026,
     220
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 120,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 52,
    "weekend": 33,
    "daily": 19,
    "of": "1997 Viper GTS"
   },
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "purosangue",
   "slug": "ferrari-purosangue",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/ferrari-purosangue/",
   "name": "Ferrari Purosangue",
   "brand": "Ferrari",
   "category": "Performance SUVs",
   "years": "2023–",
   "index_score": 1.4,
   "involvement": 4.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 3.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 2.5,
   "verdict": "A V12 curtsy to the school run.",
   "why": "Ferrari's engineers did everything right — a real NA V12, real balance — and the order book did everything predictable: allocation-gated, traded above sticker, parked outside the right restaurants. The involvement is genuine; the ownership isn't about it.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2023,
     500
    ],
    [
     2025,
     480
    ],
    [
     2026,
     460
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 400,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [
    "Valet Royalty"
   ],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "cullinan",
   "slug": "rolls-royce-cullinan",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/rolls-royce-cullinan/",
   "name": "Rolls-Royce Cullinan",
   "brand": "Rolls-Royce",
   "category": "The trophy shelf",
   "years": "2018–",
   "index_score": 0.6,
   "involvement": 1,
   "miles_driven_factor": 4.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 3,
   "verdict": "The throne room, elevated.",
   "why": "Doug's Daily score of 40 is a perfect 40 — and that's the point: this is the finest passenger experience money buys, purchased entirely for what it announces on arrival. The new floor of the index.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2019,
     400
    ],
    [
     2022,
     420
    ],
    [
     2026,
     410
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 355,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 68,
    "weekend": 28,
    "daily": 40,
    "of": "2019 Cullinan"
   },
   "badges": [
    "Valet Royalty"
   ],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "r32",
   "slug": "nissan-skyline-gt-r-r32",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/nissan-skyline-gt-r-r32/",
   "name": "Nissan Skyline GT-R (R32)",
   "brand": "Nissan",
   "category": "JDM icons",
   "years": "1989–1994",
   "index_score": 7.5,
   "involvement": 8.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 4.5,
   "verdict": "Godzilla original, still hunting.",
   "why": "The Group A destroyer that started the legend — and unlike the R34, cheap enough for long enough that its owners actually built and drove them. Import-market money is closing that window now.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2000,
     15
    ],
    [
     2012,
     25
    ],
    [
     2018,
     40
    ],
    [
     2022,
     55
    ],
    [
     2026,
     70
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 30,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "mr2sw20",
   "slug": "toyota-mr2-sw20",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/toyota-mr2-sw20/",
   "name": "Toyota MR2 (SW20)",
   "brand": "Toyota",
   "category": "JDM icons",
   "years": "1989–1999",
   "index_score": 7.6,
   "involvement": 8,
   "miles_driven_factor": 5.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 6.5,
   "verdict": "The budget Ferrari with a twist ending.",
   "why": "Mid-engine balance at hatchback money, plus the famous snap-oversteer curriculum. Still cheap enough to be driven like Toyota intended — the affordable mid-engine slot nothing modern fills.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2000,
     8
    ],
    [
     2012,
     10
    ],
    [
     2018,
     18
    ],
    [
     2022,
     30
    ],
    [
     2026,
     40
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 25,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "s15",
   "slug": "nissan-silvia-s15",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/nissan-silvia-s15/",
   "name": "Nissan Silvia (S15)",
   "brand": "Nissan",
   "category": "JDM icons",
   "years": "1999–2002",
   "index_score": 7.2,
   "involvement": 8.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 4.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 4,
   "verdict": "Drift royalty, import-priced.",
   "why": "The best chassis drifting ever standardized on, now aging out of grassroots budgets. The clean survivors go collector; the rest still live sideways — the AE86 story, twenty years later.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2005,
     15
    ],
    [
     2015,
     20
    ],
    [
     2021,
     40
    ],
    [
     2026,
     55
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 25,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [
    "Flip Bait"
   ],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "nsxnc1",
   "slug": "honda-nsx-nc1",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/honda-nsx-nc1/",
   "name": "Honda NSX (NC1)",
   "brand": "Honda",
   "category": "Sports cars & GTs",
   "years": "2016–2022",
   "index_score": 5.4,
   "involvement": 7,
   "miles_driven_factor": 4,
   "not_flipped_factor": 5,
   "verdict": "Right car, wrong decade.",
   "why": "A genuinely clever hybrid supercar that nobody asked Honda for, discounted new and appreciating quietly since. Owners treat it like the collectible it accidentally became.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2017,
     150
    ],
    [
     2020,
     110
    ],
    [
     2023,
     130
    ],
    [
     2026,
     145
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 157,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 66,
    "weekend": 40,
    "daily": 26,
    "of": "2017 NSX"
   },
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "gtimk1",
   "slug": "vw-golf-gti-mk1",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/vw-golf-gti-mk1/",
   "name": "VW Golf GTI (Mk1)",
   "brand": "Volkswagen",
   "category": "Hot hatches",
   "years": "1976–1983",
   "index_score": 8,
   "involvement": 8.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 5.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 5.5,
   "verdict": "The origin document.",
   "why": "Every hot hatch since is a footnote to this. Values finally went classic, but the community that kept them alive keeps driving them — patina over concours, always.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2000,
     4
    ],
    [
     2012,
     8
    ],
    [
     2018,
     15
    ],
    [
     2022,
     25
    ],
    [
     2026,
     32
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 8,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [
    "Smiles per Dollar"
   ],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "grcorolla",
   "slug": "toyota-gr-corolla",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/toyota-gr-corolla/",
   "name": "Toyota GR Corolla",
   "brand": "Toyota",
   "category": "Hot hatches",
   "years": "2023–",
   "index_score": 7.9,
   "involvement": 8,
   "miles_driven_factor": 7.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 7,
   "verdict": "The GR Yaris for the rest of us.",
   "why": "The homologation-special drivetrain in a body America could actually buy. Early markups faded fast, and the cars go to people who use launch control on gravel, as intended.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2023,
     42
    ],
    [
     2024,
     38
    ],
    [
     2026,
     36
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 37,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "r26r",
   "slug": "renault-m-gane-r26-r",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/renault-m-gane-r26-r/",
   "name": "Renault Mégane R26.R",
   "brand": "Renault",
   "category": "Hot hatches",
   "years": "2008–2009",
   "index_score": 8.4,
   "involvement": 9,
   "miles_driven_factor": 5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 6,
   "verdict": "The hardcore-hatch benchmark, still lapping.",
   "why": "Polycarbonate windows, a cage instead of rear seats, and a Ring record that embarrassed sports cars. Most of the 450 still get tracked — collector interest exists, but the cars refuse to sit still.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2009,
     30
    ],
    [
     2015,
     25
    ],
    [
     2020,
     40
    ],
    [
     2026,
     60
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 35,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [
    "Smiles per Dollar"
   ],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "e92m3",
   "slug": "bmw-m3-e90-e92",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/bmw-m3-e90-e92/",
   "name": "BMW M3 (E90/E92)",
   "brand": "BMW",
   "category": "Super saloons & wagons",
   "years": "2007–2013",
   "index_score": 7.1,
   "involvement": 8.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 6.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 6,
   "verdict": "The 8,400 rpm V8 detour.",
   "why": "The only V8 M3 — a free-revving anomaly between straight-six eras, with a rod-bearing ritual its owners budget for. Driven and tracked in numbers the values haven't punished yet.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2009,
     60
    ],
    [
     2014,
     35
    ],
    [
     2019,
     35
    ],
    [
     2023,
     50
    ],
    [
     2026,
     60
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 68,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 57,
    "weekend": 31,
    "daily": 26,
    "of": "2013 E92 M3 Competition"
   },
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "m5cs",
   "slug": "bmw-m5-cs",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/bmw-m5-cs/",
   "name": "BMW M5 CS",
   "brand": "BMW",
   "category": "Super saloons & wagons",
   "years": "2021–2022",
   "index_score": 7.4,
   "involvement": 8.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 6,
   "not_flipped_factor": 5,
   "verdict": "The apology that became the benchmark.",
   "why": "One-year run, universally called the best modern M car — which put collector pressure on a sedan built to be driven. The ones in use embarrass supercars; the rest are appreciating in bags.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2021,
     145
    ],
    [
     2023,
     125
    ],
    [
     2026,
     135
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 142,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "hellcat",
   "slug": "dodge-charger-hellcat",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/dodge-charger-hellcat/",
   "name": "Dodge Charger Hellcat",
   "brand": "Dodge",
   "category": "Super saloons & wagons",
   "years": "2015–2023",
   "index_score": 3.6,
   "involvement": 4.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 6,
   "not_flipped_factor": 4.5,
   "verdict": "717 hp of standing still, loudly.",
   "why": "America's blower-whine icon, bought for the noise and the numbers and driven mostly in a straight line. The rental-fleet and social-media ownership pattern keeps it low; the honesty of the thing keeps it off the floor.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2016,
     68
    ],
    [
     2020,
     55
    ],
    [
     2023,
     60
    ],
    [
     2026,
     65
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 75,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 64,
    "weekend": 34,
    "daily": 30,
    "of": "2020 Charger Hellcat Widebody"
   },
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "fordgt17",
   "slug": "ford-gt-2017",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/ford-gt-2017/",
   "name": "Ford GT (2017)",
   "brand": "Ford",
   "category": "Sports cars & GTs",
   "years": "2017–2022",
   "index_score": 5.5,
   "involvement": 8.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 2.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 3,
   "verdict": "Contractually yours, briefly.",
   "why": "Application-gated with a two-year no-sale clause — Ford sued John Cena for flipping his. The clause expired and the flips began; a racecar-honest machine owned mostly as an allocation trophy.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2018,
     900
    ],
    [
     2021,
     1000
    ],
    [
     2024,
     1100
    ],
    [
     2026,
     1200
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 500,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 70,
    "weekend": 48,
    "daily": 22,
    "of": "2019 Ford GT"
   },
   "badges": [
    "Garage Queen",
    "Flip Bait"
   ],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "gt350r",
   "slug": "shelby-gt350r",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/shelby-gt350r/",
   "name": "Shelby GT350R",
   "brand": "Shelby",
   "category": "Sports cars & GTs",
   "years": "2015–2020",
   "index_score": 7.7,
   "involvement": 9,
   "miles_driven_factor": 5.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 5.5,
   "verdict": "The 8,250 rpm Mustang that gets used.",
   "why": "A flat-plane V8 that howls to 8,250 in a Mustang shell, manual only, wing and all. Track-day sign-ins prove the point — bought by drivers, with a collector floor forming underneath.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2016,
     70
    ],
    [
     2020,
     65
    ],
    [
     2023,
     75
    ],
    [
     2026,
     85
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 74,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 65,
    "weekend": 39,
    "daily": 26,
    "of": "2017 GT350R"
   },
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "impreza22b",
   "slug": "subaru-impreza-22b",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/subaru-impreza-22b/",
   "name": "Subaru Impreza 22B",
   "brand": "Subaru",
   "category": "JDM icons",
   "years": "1998–1999",
   "index_score": 6,
   "involvement": 8.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 2.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 3,
   "verdict": "The blue-chip Subaru.",
   "why": "Four hundred widebody coupes celebrating three WRC titles, now trading in McLaren money. The rally car for the road became the rally car for the vault — the sharpest trophy conversion in JDM history.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2005,
     60
    ],
    [
     2015,
     100
    ],
    [
     2021,
     250
    ],
    [
     2026,
     320
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 45,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 54,
    "weekend": 32,
    "daily": 22,
    "of": "1998 22B"
   },
   "badges": [
    "Garage Queen",
    "Flip Bait",
    "Homologation Hero"
   ],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "w124500e",
   "slug": "mercedes-benz-500e",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/mercedes-benz-500e/",
   "name": "Mercedes-Benz 500E",
   "brand": "Mercedes",
   "category": "Super saloons & wagons",
   "years": "1991–1994",
   "index_score": 7.2,
   "involvement": 7.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 6,
   "not_flipped_factor": 7,
   "verdict": "Porsche built it; owners drive it.",
   "why": "Shuttled between Mercedes and Porsche during assembly, eighteen days per car. The wolf-in-W124 keeps getting used the way over-engineered Mercedes always are — values crept up without ending the commuting.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2000,
     25
    ],
    [
     2012,
     20
    ],
    [
     2018,
     35
    ],
    [
     2022,
     55
    ],
    [
     2026,
     70
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 80,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 52,
    "weekend": 24,
    "daily": 28,
    "of": "1992 500E"
   },
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "rs2",
   "slug": "audi-rs2-avant",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/audi-rs2-avant/",
   "name": "Audi RS2 Avant",
   "brand": "Audi",
   "category": "Super saloons & wagons",
   "years": "1994–1995",
   "index_score": 6.8,
   "involvement": 8,
   "miles_driven_factor": 4.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 5,
   "verdict": "The five-cylinder wagon that started Fast Audi.",
   "why": "Porsche brakes, Porsche mirrors, a five-cylinder yowl, and the entire fast-wagon genre downstream of it. Collector gravity is winning — 2,891 built and the driven share shrinks yearly.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2000,
     25
    ],
    [
     2012,
     30
    ],
    [
     2018,
     60
    ],
    [
     2022,
     90
    ],
    [
     2026,
     110
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 60,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 57,
    "weekend": 30,
    "daily": 27,
    "of": "1994 RS2 Avant"
   },
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "ctsvwagon",
   "slug": "cadillac-cts-v-wagon",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/cadillac-cts-v-wagon/",
   "name": "Cadillac CTS-V Wagon",
   "brand": "Cadillac",
   "category": "Super saloons & wagons",
   "years": "2011–2014",
   "index_score": 8.1,
   "involvement": 8.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 6.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 6,
   "verdict": "The manual wagon unicorn, actually driven.",
   "why": "A supercharged V8, a stick, and a longroof — the spec sheet enthusiasts invoke like scripture, built by Cadillac of all people. The few manual wagons get driven hard and hoarded simultaneously, somehow.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2012,
     60
    ],
    [
     2016,
     45
    ],
    [
     2020,
     60
    ],
    [
     2023,
     80
    ],
    [
     2026,
     95
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 65,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 66,
    "weekend": 34,
    "daily": 32,
    "of": "2019 CTS-V (sedan)"
   },
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "lc500",
   "slug": "lexus-lc-500",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/lexus-lc-500/",
   "name": "Lexus LC 500",
   "brand": "Lexus",
   "category": "Sports cars & GTs",
   "years": "2017–",
   "index_score": 6.3,
   "involvement": 7.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 5.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 7,
   "verdict": "The concept car they accidentally sold.",
   "why": "An NA V8 grand tourer styled like the show car survived production untouched. Bought by keepers — the IS F pattern one class up — and driven gently, far, and often.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2018,
     80
    ],
    [
     2021,
     70
    ],
    [
     2024,
     75
    ],
    [
     2026,
     80
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 93,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 66,
    "weekend": 33,
    "daily": 33,
    "of": "2018 LC 500"
   },
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "bmw1m",
   "slug": "bmw-1m-coup",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/bmw-1m-coup/",
   "name": "BMW 1M Coupé",
   "brand": "BMW",
   "category": "Sports cars & GTs",
   "years": "2011",
   "index_score": 7.6,
   "involvement": 8.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 4.5,
   "verdict": "The parts-bin special that outgrew the badge.",
   "why": "One year, one spec, M3 hardware in a shorter box — the accidental legend BMW never repeated. Values doubled and the collector fraction grows, but the ones outside bubbles still get exercised properly.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2012,
     45
    ],
    [
     2016,
     50
    ],
    [
     2020,
     60
    ],
    [
     2023,
     75
    ],
    [
     2026,
     90
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 47,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 64,
    "weekend": 36,
    "daily": 28,
    "of": "2011 1 Series M"
   },
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "m4csl",
   "slug": "bmw-m4-csl",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/bmw-m4-csl/",
   "name": "BMW M4 CSL",
   "brand": "BMW",
   "category": "Sports cars & GTs",
   "years": "2022–2023",
   "index_score": 5.8,
   "involvement": 8.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 3,
   "not_flipped_factor": 3.5,
   "verdict": "1,000 built, half already in bubbles.",
   "why": "The CSL badge returned attached to genuine capability and a delivery-mileage epidemic. The cars that escape the wrappers are properly quick; the wrappers are winning.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2022,
     140
    ],
    [
     2024,
     120
    ],
    [
     2026,
     125
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 140,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [
    "Flip Bait"
   ],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "ftyper",
   "slug": "jaguar-f-type-r",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/jaguar-f-type-r/",
   "name": "Jaguar F-Type R",
   "brand": "Jaguar",
   "category": "Sports cars & GTs",
   "years": "2014–2024",
   "index_score": 5.9,
   "involvement": 7,
   "miles_driven_factor": 5.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 5.5,
   "verdict": "The soundtrack sells the car.",
   "why": "Bought for the crackle-and-pop theatre and the looks, driven on sunny Sundays, traded before the warranty ends. Honest GT ownership — just not the ownership the exhaust note advertises.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2016,
     90
    ],
    [
     2020,
     60
    ],
    [
     2024,
     55
    ],
    [
     2026,
     58
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 103,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 63,
    "weekend": 36,
    "daily": 27,
    "of": "2021 F-Type R"
   },
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "dbx707",
   "slug": "aston-martin-dbx707",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/aston-martin-dbx707/",
   "name": "Aston Martin DBX707",
   "brand": "Aston Martin",
   "category": "Performance SUVs",
   "years": "2022–",
   "index_score": 2.7,
   "involvement": 4.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 5.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 4,
   "verdict": "The sports-car excuse, elevated.",
   "why": "The best-driving of the trophy SUVs by the road tests, which its ownership data politely ignores. Bought as the Aston you can justify, driven as the Aston you never quite use.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2022,
     230
    ],
    [
     2024,
     180
    ],
    [
     2026,
     165
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 236,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "taycanturbogt",
   "slug": "porsche-taycan-turbo-gt",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/porsche-taycan-turbo-gt/",
   "name": "Porsche Taycan Turbo GT",
   "brand": "Porsche",
   "category": "Performance EVs",
   "years": "2024–",
   "index_score": 5.6,
   "involvement": 6.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 5.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 6.5,
   "verdict": "The Ring record nobody asked for, gloriously.",
   "why": "Porsche built the EV that laps like a GT car and found the buyers who actually track EVs — both dozen of them. The most involving electric thing on the site, bought by early-adopter drivers, not badge shoppers.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2024,
     225
    ],
    [
     2026,
     190
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 231,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "lucidsapphire",
   "slug": "lucid-air-sapphire",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/lucid-air-sapphire/",
   "name": "Lucid Air Sapphire",
   "brand": "Lucid",
   "category": "Performance EVs",
   "years": "2023–",
   "index_score": 2.3,
   "involvement": 3,
   "miles_driven_factor": 4.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 3.5,
   "verdict": "1,234 hp, whispered.",
   "why": "The Plaid's thesis executed with better engineering and the same ownership reality: a luxury commuter with a party trick. Doug gave the Air 73; the axis measures a different thing entirely.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2024,
     240
    ],
    [
     2026,
     180
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 249,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 73,
    "weekend": 38,
    "daily": 35,
    "of": "2022 Air Dream Edition"
   },
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "spectre",
   "slug": "rolls-royce-spectre",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/rolls-royce-spectre/",
   "name": "Rolls-Royce Spectre",
   "brand": "Rolls-Royce",
   "category": "The trophy shelf",
   "years": "2023–",
   "index_score": 0.9,
   "involvement": 1.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 4,
   "not_flipped_factor": 3.5,
   "verdict": "Silence as a status symbol.",
   "why": "The quietest car from the company that invented quiet as a selling point — electric drive completing a century-old brief. Pure arrival theatre; the Cullinan's coupé soulmate at the floor of the index.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2024,
     450
    ],
    [
     2026,
     430
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 420,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [
    "Valet Royalty"
   ],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "s660",
   "slug": "honda-s660",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/honda-s660/",
   "name": "Honda S660",
   "brand": "Honda",
   "category": "JDM icons",
   "years": "2015–2022",
   "index_score": 8.6,
   "involvement": 8.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 7.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 8,
   "verdict": "660 cc of pure intent.",
   "why": "A mid-engine roadster with a real 6-speed and 63 hp — the purest proof that involvement has nothing to do with power. JDM-only, dailyed in Japan, grey-imported by people who understand.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2016,
     12
    ],
    [
     2020,
     14
    ],
    [
     2024,
     18
    ],
    [
     2026,
     20
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 15,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [
    "Smiles per Dollar"
   ],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "caymangt4",
   "slug": "porsche-cayman-gt4-718",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/porsche-cayman-gt4-718/",
   "name": "Porsche Cayman GT4 (718)",
   "brand": "Porsche",
   "category": "Sports cars & GTs",
   "years": "2019–",
   "index_score": 8.4,
   "involvement": 9,
   "miles_driven_factor": 6,
   "not_flipped_factor": 6,
   "verdict": "The 911 pecking order's worst nightmare.",
   "why": "The GT department's mid-engine manual, bought overwhelmingly to be tracked. Less flip pressure than its RS sibling, more sign-in sheets — the driver's pick of the whole Cayman line.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2020,
     105
    ],
    [
     2022,
     110
    ],
    [
     2024,
     100
    ],
    [
     2026,
     95
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 100,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 66,
    "weekend": 38,
    "daily": 28,
    "of": "2020 718 GT4"
   },
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "clio182",
   "slug": "renault-clio-182-trophy",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/renault-clio-182-trophy/",
   "name": "Renault Clio 182 Trophy",
   "brand": "Renault",
   "category": "Hot hatches",
   "years": "2005–2006",
   "index_score": 8.3,
   "involvement": 9,
   "miles_driven_factor": 6,
   "not_flipped_factor": 6.5,
   "verdict": "The £500 handling benchmark that grew up.",
   "why": "Five hundred cars with motorsport dampers and the best steering of its decade. Britain's track-day paddocks kept them alive and used; classic money only recently noticed.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2006,
     20
    ],
    [
     2014,
     10
    ],
    [
     2020,
     18
    ],
    [
     2026,
     28
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 22,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [
    "Smiles per Dollar"
   ],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "c5z06",
   "slug": "corvette-z06-c5",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/corvette-z06-c5/",
   "name": "Corvette Z06 (C5)",
   "brand": "Chevrolet",
   "category": "Sports cars & GTs",
   "years": "2001–2004",
   "index_score": 7.6,
   "involvement": 8,
   "miles_driven_factor": 6,
   "not_flipped_factor": 6.5,
   "verdict": "Track pace per dollar, still unbeaten.",
   "why": "Manual-only, lighter than the base car, and two decades later still the cheapest way to embarrass modern metal on track. DougScore 57; the paddock disagrees with Doug on this one.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2003,
     50
    ],
    [
     2010,
     25
    ],
    [
     2016,
     25
    ],
    [
     2021,
     35
    ],
    [
     2026,
     45
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 52,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 57,
    "weekend": 33,
    "daily": 24,
    "of": "2002 Z06 (C5)"
   },
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "i30n",
   "slug": "hyundai-i30-n",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/hyundai-i30-n/",
   "name": "Hyundai i30 N",
   "brand": "Hyundai",
   "category": "Hot hatches",
   "years": "2017–",
   "index_score": 7.6,
   "involvement": 7.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 8.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 8.5,
   "verdict": "The value-brand surprise that stuck the landing.",
   "why": "Albert Biermann's proof that N wasn't a marketing exercise. Bought with own money by people who cross-shopped GTIs, driven daily, and utterly unloved by speculators — the healthiest ownership profile money can buy.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2019,
     32
    ],
    [
     2022,
     26
    ],
    [
     2026,
     23
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 35,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 58,
    "weekend": 27,
    "daily": 31,
    "of": "2019 Veloster N (sister car)"
   },
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "e34m5",
   "slug": "bmw-m5-e34",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/bmw-m5-e34/",
   "name": "BMW M5 (E34)",
   "brand": "BMW",
   "category": "Super saloons & wagons",
   "years": "1988–1995",
   "index_score": 7,
   "involvement": 8,
   "miles_driven_factor": 5.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 6.5,
   "verdict": "Hand-built six, business suit.",
   "why": "The last hand-built M5 with the motorsport straight-six. E28 money pulled this generation upward, but the owner base still leans drivers-with-toolboxes over collectors-with-covers.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2000,
     20
    ],
    [
     2012,
     18
    ],
    [
     2018,
     30
    ],
    [
     2022,
     45
    ],
    [
     2026,
     60
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 90,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 52,
    "weekend": 26,
    "daily": 26,
    "of": "1991 M5 (E34)"
   },
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "celicagt4",
   "slug": "toyota-celica-gt-four-st205",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/toyota-celica-gt-four-st205/",
   "name": "Toyota Celica GT-Four (ST205)",
   "brand": "Toyota",
   "category": "JDM icons",
   "years": "1994–1999",
   "index_score": 6.9,
   "involvement": 7.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 5.5,
   "verdict": "The forgotten homologation Toyota.",
   "why": "The homologation special history skips because of how its WRC story ended — a turbo-restrictor scandal and a ban. The road cars soldier on cheaper than any Impreza or Evo of equal pedigree.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2000,
     12
    ],
    [
     2012,
     14
    ],
    [
     2018,
     25
    ],
    [
     2022,
     38
    ],
    [
     2026,
     48
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 35,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [
    "Homologation Hero"
   ],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "p928",
   "slug": "porsche-928",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/porsche-928/",
   "name": "Porsche 928",
   "brand": "Porsche",
   "category": "Analog classics",
   "years": "1978–1995",
   "index_score": 6.6,
   "involvement": 7.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 4.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 5.5,
   "verdict": "The transaxle GT finally getting respect.",
   "why": "Built to replace the 911 and outlived by it — the grand tourer Porsche's air-cooled faithful ignored for decades. Maintenance bills cull the pretenders; the survivors tour properly.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2000,
     15
    ],
    [
     2012,
     12
    ],
    [
     2018,
     25
    ],
    [
     2022,
     40
    ],
    [
     2026,
     55
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 80,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 54,
    "weekend": 30,
    "daily": 24,
    "of": "1994 928 GTS"
   },
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "f550",
   "slug": "ferrari-550-maranello",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/ferrari-550-maranello/",
   "name": "Ferrari 550 Maranello",
   "brand": "Ferrari",
   "category": "Sports cars & GTs",
   "years": "1996–2001",
   "index_score": 6.6,
   "involvement": 9,
   "miles_driven_factor": 4,
   "not_flipped_factor": 5.5,
   "verdict": "The manual V12 GT blueprint.",
   "why": "A gated manual and an NA V12 in a subtle suit — the template the 812 descended from. The market spent a decade catching on; the miles largely stopped when it did.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2000,
     180
    ],
    [
     2008,
     90
    ],
    [
     2015,
     120
    ],
    [
     2021,
     180
    ],
    [
     2026,
     230
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 204,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "alfa4c",
   "slug": "alfa-romeo-4c",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/alfa-romeo-4c/",
   "name": "Alfa Romeo 4C",
   "brand": "Alfa Romeo",
   "category": "Sports cars & GTs",
   "years": "2013–2020",
   "index_score": 6.6,
   "involvement": 8,
   "miles_driven_factor": 4.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 5.5,
   "verdict": "A carbon tub with commitment issues.",
   "why": "A carbon monocoque and unassisted steering at Cayman money, hobbled by a DCT-only gearbox and a punishing daily manner. Owners either drive them hard or barely at all — the split personality shows in the data.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2015,
     60
    ],
    [
     2019,
     45
    ],
    [
     2023,
     55
    ],
    [
     2026,
     65
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 66,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 56,
    "weekend": 35,
    "daily": 21,
    "of": "2015 4C Spider"
   },
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "f360",
   "slug": "ferrari-360-modena",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/ferrari-360-modena/",
   "name": "Ferrari 360 Modena",
   "brand": "Ferrari",
   "category": "Sports cars & GTs",
   "years": "1999–2005",
   "index_score": 6.5,
   "involvement": 8,
   "miles_driven_factor": 5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 5.5,
   "verdict": "The volume Ferrari that still gets driven.",
   "why": "The first alloy-chassis Ferrari made in real numbers, which kept prices humane and cars on the road for two decades. The gated manuals departed for collections; the F1 cars still work weekends.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2003,
     150
    ],
    [
     2010,
     90
    ],
    [
     2016,
     85
    ],
    [
     2021,
     100
    ],
    [
     2026,
     120
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 150,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [],
   "variants": [
    {
     "label": "F1",
     "involvement": 8
    },
    {
     "label": "Gated manual",
     "involvement": 9
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "f488",
   "slug": "ferrari-488-gtb",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/ferrari-488-gtb/",
   "name": "Ferrari 488 GTB",
   "brand": "Ferrari",
   "category": "Sports cars & GTs",
   "years": "2015–2019",
   "index_score": 5.4,
   "involvement": 7.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 4,
   "not_flipped_factor": 4,
   "verdict": "The turbo apology tour.",
   "why": "Brilliant to drive and mourned anyway — the car that traded the 458's shriek for boost. Short ownership cycles and spec-flipping followed the depreciation curve down and back up.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2017,
     240
    ],
    [
     2020,
     200
    ],
    [
     2023,
     220
    ],
    [
     2026,
     235
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 250,
   "dougscore": {
    "total": 70,
    "weekend": 44,
    "daily": 26,
    "of": "2016 488 Spider"
   },
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "nomad",
   "slug": "ariel-nomad",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/ariel-nomad/",
   "name": "Ariel Nomad",
   "brand": "Ariel",
   "category": "Lightweights",
   "years": "2015–",
   "index_score": 9,
   "involvement": 9.5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 5.5,
   "not_flipped_factor": 8,
   "verdict": "The Atom that plays in the dirt.",
   "why": "An Atom with suspension travel and a sense of humor — bought to be jumped, not parked. The lightweight section's only member that scores on gravel time instead of track time.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2016,
     70
    ],
    [
     2021,
     75
    ],
    [
     2026,
     85
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 90,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  },
  {
   "id": "cayenne955",
   "slug": "porsche-cayenne-turbo-955",
   "url": "https://enthusiast-index.com/car/porsche-cayenne-turbo-955/",
   "name": "Porsche Cayenne Turbo (955)",
   "brand": "Porsche",
   "category": "Performance SUVs",
   "years": "2003–2006",
   "index_score": 4,
   "involvement": 5,
   "miles_driven_factor": 7,
   "not_flipped_factor": 6.5,
   "verdict": "The segment's origin, now $15k of V8.",
   "why": "The SUV that paid for every GT3 since, now depreciated into an honest used car dailyed by people who just want the V8. Twenty years on, the trophy wore off — which oddly redeems it.",
   "value_history_usd_k": [
    [
     2004,
     90
    ],
    [
     2010,
     25
    ],
    [
     2016,
     15
    ],
    [
     2021,
     15
    ],
    [
     2026,
     18
    ]
   ],
   "msrp_usd_k": 90,
   "dougscore": null,
   "badges": [],
   "variants": null
  }
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