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I presume you mean a classical style nylon string job with a piezo bridge pickup and in built preamp?

Like any other type of guitar, they are a good useful instrument if you have a use for one- being able to be used amplified solo, with or without backing or with a band on stage.

I purchased a Yamaha CG150CCA around ten years ago. Its a classical with a single cutaway. The neck is slightly narrower than a normal classical.
The sound either acoustic or through its own pickup built into the bridge is great.
As far as I remember it cost around the £400 price range with hard case.
The neck feels like a tree trunk after playing Strats or similar instruments, but on the plus side, after playing it for a while, your hands glide over your electrics neck with ease. And its great for strenthening your fingers.
Funny you should bring this up. I just bought new strings for mine a couple of days ago and cleaned and oiled the neck last night. I've not played it for ages.
I'm going to bring it into some of my recordings once I get used to it again.
They sound so much better than the normal steel strung acoustics. I have never regretted buying it.
Yamahas are a great middle of the road purchase I've found.
Be warned though. The re-stringing technique is somewhat of a learning curve and tuning problems can be frustrating to say the least.
But well worth the effort in the long run.
Sorry. For sale it is not
Hugh.

Don't thank me mate- thank the late Chet Atkins and some other unknown designers at companies like Ovation, Gibson etc who pioneered and developed the piezo electric principle pickups and then the use of built-in battery powered pre-amps, which enabled all players of acoustic guitars and many other acoustic instruments to be able to properly amplify their instruments for band and stage use, instead of suffering the past problems of using say, microphones or magnetic pickups..such as feedback, and sounds which were a compromise...

Having seen guitar genius folk as diverse as John Williams, Willie Nelson, Jose Feliciano, Chet Atkins and many others use electric nylon string jobs, they are here to stay...and as you say, good for getting the right sound live or with a band for Guitar Tango etc!

Hi Ian
Do you need a "Spanish" guitar to play "El Solo Toro"?