ian its pure greedy greedy dealers .they are piggybacking the love ,care, and money that all us enthusiasts put into our cars over the years keeping them in tip top condition.
they write a big add with some nice pictures telling us all what we already know about our cossies trying to spoof the unsuspecting first time buyer with their spiel .they then take the money and badger people into selling their cars to them so they can profit once again.
parts are getting very scarce now unfortunatley.

i dont think there will ever be cars with such iconic status as the cosworths, integrales,ur quattros etc.only the limited run cars for homolagtion into grpa will have this status along with supercars

of course if your a dealer who cant find a nice 3dr you bang a huge price on a saff lol