I suspect most will be modded to the bejesus belt and beat to hell 10 years from now. A clean one that hasn't been trashed should hold its value pretty well.
I'm doing a few things to mine, but nothing that can't easily be returned to stock. Mine's just a DD. I don't plan to race it or give it 300 hp.
I don't mean to put down people who do. It's your car. Enjoy it any way you want to. You can still drive it to work. It's still practical.
I always liked small, zippy cars. This one is the zippiest, and I plan to keep it!
This actually will ring true more than you can believe. Reason being the ST was marketed as a Perofrmance version right out of box. It will mean most will be modded.
In the 240sx world, even though they were sentry level sports car Nissan NA third to market them more to scretaries and whatnot.
Even the the fastbacks sister in Japan the 180sx was one of the most popular sports cars ever sold there.
The result was for a long time after production stopped in 93 on S13's there was still a ton of them stock to be had. Now trying to find one stock is next to impossible and because of the Fast and Furiious and the drift tax all you see is modded shit piles with a a few uber expensive clean modded ones. Maybe one stop clean stocks every 6 months to a year. Lol
I watched the same thing happen with Datsun 510's . As well as 240z's. Oh and all of these cars sold more than the FiST has ever sold numbers wise.