Just remember, your buying a ZTV8 of which less then 1000 were made( and probably as few as 500 remaining !), as opposed to a mass produced car with production runs of 100's of thousands.
It makes pricing / valuing individual cars very hard, of course buyers want as much as possible, and sellers want to pay as little as possible, couple that with time of year and fuel costs it certainly is a very murky pool to peer in.
However, if you have a budget in mind, and you find the car that ticks all the boxes, then hey that's what it's worth
AS for Paul with 881, I feel for him as I was in a similar position with my first V8. It's a cracking car in a good strong colour and as importantly only 3 from the end of the production run.
You only have to look at 30 year old sporty Fords to see where the prices of these cars will go (Probably
) after all who'd pay £10K for a MKIII Escort