I looked at getting a cossie (as I have periodically throughout my adult life) around 5 years ago but couldn't justify spending £3-4k on what I thought was going to be an old, probably rusty, probably unreliable ford so I got an e36 EmmFree instead for the same money. Didn't get on with the Beemer though... The cosworth was pretty undesirable back then, it had kind of hit a slump that I'm seeing with my other car right now (a classic Impreza). The last few are doing the council estate run and look fooking awful but, and it is a big but, there are a few nice ones left (I put my Impreza in that category) and they will go up in value as everyone realises there are not many decent ones left.