‘2010 Collectible Car of the Future’ award goes to Chevrolet Camaro

I couldn't agree less with that decision. There's nothing collectable about a volume seller.

Collectible is best described in ROI, surely you can collect ferrari's, but how many of them are going to appreciate potentially 5-20 times their initial values plus inflation. For example If you were to buy a 1 million dollar one off or short production run exotic, or 20 fully loaded Camaro's and then went to sell it/them in 40-50 years time with the same amount of mileage on them. Which would be the better investment?

How many different variations of this model will there be?

I'll pass as the majority sold are V6's and the car was old when it finally debuted for sale. They biffed this by showing it in Transformers years before it was ready for production.

The American collectable cars that bring big dollars are the very low production models. Also a collectable to me are the cars that some call "trophy cars" that command a high sale price. For example, In 1970 there were only 9 Hemicuda convertibles produced and in 1971 there were 12. Two of the 71s went to Europe and one servived. This 1971 Hemicuda convertable sold a few years ago for 4.1 million. I don't see any Camaro getting that. The others would be cars that were raced and have a good pedigree. Then there are the tri five chevys that are a dime a dozen but still have the nostalga. Collectables that get good ROI are ones that get more rare as time goes on.

Correction, There were 14 Hemicuda convertibles in 1970 and 9 in 1971.

I agree with the Camaro selection.

In 40 years, you can be sure our kids will be bidding big on 2010 Camaro's and telling their kids how this was one of the cars they always remember from their childhood.

http://www.carsforsale.com/used_cars_for_sale/1969_Chevrolet_Camaro

Get real. While the number collected may be large because the prices are low due to high production levels, the big dollar investment grade collectibles will all be Mustangs...Boss 302, Shelby 350GT and Super Snakes.