Yeah Gary1 (the previous owner of my stagea) spent well up over the $40k mark, and has the reciepts to prove it, yet I picked it up for $25k as is.
Any money you spend on a car is a bad investment, I dont know how many thousands of dollars I poured into my Skyline, and it never made the car worth that much more.
If I could've afforded it, I would've gone the 260rs, but this one I got was just the right place, the right time and at the right price.
If you are squeamish about the price and the devaluation, buy the 260rs, you wont have to mod it as autech think of everything and I think it would hold it's value better than an rs4 simply because I reckon there are more rs4's being imported than 260rs's, well based on my opinion considering I am just guessing at that I wouldnt believe it
If you want to enjoy building up and working on your car and are going to keep it for the long run, (ie 5 - 10 years) then go the rs4 and mod.
If you are only in it for the short term and afraid of devalueation and resell value, go the 260rs as it truely is a GTR Wagon, well as close as a GTR can come to being a wagon