GREAT FALLS, VA– One of the collector car hobby’s real experts, Dave Kinney, founder and publisher of the Cars That Matter collector car price guide and frequent contributor to the New York Times and other major automotive publications, announced today that he’s launching his next online venture, the Cars That Matter Indexes.
Modeled similarly to a broad-base stock market index, the Cars That Matter Indexes will be the industry’s only regularly updated resource of its kind dedicated to measuring the investment performance of collector cars from post-war era in multiple market sectors.
“For years I’ve analyzed all aspects of the collector car market through my market-based writing and publishing the Cars That Matter price guide,” says Dave Kinney. “With the state of the economy and the overall increase in collectors’ knowledge and sophistication, now is the time to bring a higher level of analysis to the market. The Cars That Matter Indexes will provide collectors with the extra edge in pricing and value comparison that is required to stay on top of the collecting hobby today.”
Blue chip cars, such as the Ferrari 250 California Spyder, Mercedes 300SL Gullwing and 427 Cobra, are known to be the cars of the greatest significance and inherent worth. The Cars That Matter “Blue Chip” Index aims to expertly track and index these values in order to reflect leading collectors’ patterns during a given time period, and ultimately create a snapshot of the current state of the hobby.
“It’s a case of the rich getting richer – the real estate collapse, five dollar a gallon gas and a looming recession haven’t affected the pinnacle of the market,” says Kinney. “The ‘Blue Chip’ average has nearly doubled since the release of Cars That Matter Volume 1 in Fall 2006.
Kinney has also released an ongoing series of more specialized Cars That Matter Indexes tracking the performance of six unique market sectors: the “Prince of Darkness” Index tracking British Cars, the “Small Cap Average” Index of Affordable Classics, the “Rosso Corsa” Index of Ferraris, the “Smokey Burnout” Index of Muscle Cars, the “Silver Arrow” Index of German Cars, and the “Atomic Jetfire” Index of 1950s American Classics. The first series of specialty Indexes launched online today with the primary Blue Chip Index; all subsequent specialty category updates will be available free of charge on a quarterly basis to subscribers of the price guide’s e-newsletter.
To find out more:
Cars that Matter:
www.carsthatmatter.com Cars That Matter Indexes
www.carsthatmatter.com/indexes.php Cars That Matter Blog:
www.carsthatmatter.com/blog .
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