Toyota Supra RZ-S, called 2 Sep 2026.

A 1999 Supra RZ-S running on Collecting Cars out of Clyde North, Victoria — Moonstone Pearl over black cloth with patterned inserts, 117,383 kilometres indicated and not warranted, a Japan-delivered import now registered here, VIN 6U900JZA801004200, private seller, 194 photographs.

The RZ-S grade was offered with the six-speed manual as well as the four-speed automatic, checked against two independent JZA80 grade references before this call was written, so the advertisement's central claim describes the car Toyota built rather than a conversion. That matters because every other RZ-S in this library is an automatic, and the automatics are the cheap half of this record.

Run through the hierarchy against the $78,000 base the answer is $89,700: minus 0.9 per cent for 117,383 kilometres against the 110,000 this record expects, nothing for Moonstone Pearl, plus 8 for the factory six-speed Getrag and plus 10 for an unmodified 2JZ on standard turbochargers, raw plus 17.1 and capped to plus 15.

The two dearest manual A80s in the Australian log are both heavily built cars — $90,500 at Rouse Hill in March 2026 for a Garrett GTX3584RS single-turbo conversion on Haltech management making about 500rwkW after a full respray, and $65,500 at the Gold Coast in February 2024 for a fully forged RZ-S on a single conversion with a bolt-in half cage and the rear seats out. The most original manual in the entire record, a 1993 RZ at West Ryde in July 2023 with the motor unopened on its factory twin turbochargers, made $45,250. Originality is not what this market has been paying for, and a plus-ten credit for it is the model pricing a preference the transactions do not show.

A 1996 RZ-S twin turbo sold at Thomastown, Victoria on 26 May 2026 for $50,500 at 121,997 kilometres — same grade, same Japan-delivered compliance, sold unregistered with a rust bubble on the rear hatch and the slip-control light illuminated. This car is the same variant at almost exactly the same distance, three years newer, registered, and with no rust disclosed.

And that is the honest way to state it rather than reaching for a base.

Across the whole record the four manuals average $75,312 and the three automatics $43,817, which is 1.72 times; restricted to 2026 results it is 1.89. Neither ratio is clean, because the automatics in this record are also the tired cars — 262,022 kilometres, a rust bubble, paint runs and dead electrics — so the multiple is measuring condition alongside the transmission. $74,000 is 1.47 times the May 2026 comparable, deliberately below both ratios, because this car has to carry the gearbox premium without also being a better car than the one it is measured against.

Stated plainly because it is the strongest argument against the number. The three RZ-S results are $65,500, $50,500 and $45,200; the RZ results run to $100,000. The RZ-S is the decontented grade and this call is asking it to set a record. Against that: the $65,500 car was a caged track build at 79,836 kilometres in February 2024, thirty-one months ago, and the manual market has printed $90,500 since.

Start at the March 2026 $90,500 rather than at the base, because it is the only 2026 manual result that exists. Minus 5.3 per cent for 43,884 more kilometres at this record's 1.2 per cent per 10,000. Minus 5 per cent, JUDGEMENT, for RZ-S rather than RZ, which the hierarchy does not price at all. Minus 2 per cent for nineteen-inch aftermarket split-rims on MIXED TYRES and a drag lip, on a car whose market pays for standard presentation. Plus 3 per cent, JUDGEMENT, for the documentation. Minus 1 per cent for the disclosed condition. That lands at $81,000, and the register takes the rest.

The house states that this VIN carries a security interest logged against it on the Personal Property Securities Register. NEVDIS is clear — no written-off and no stolen marker. A registered interest is normally discharged at settlement and most bidders will never think about it; a bidder who cannot get that confirmed before the hammer is bidding on a car with a charge against it. This desk priced the ABSENCE of one as a positive on the California call running the same week, so it prices the presence of one here: minus 4 per cent, about $3,200. Net $77,800. The call is set at $74,000 rather than $77,800 because a variant that has never traded above $65,500 does not get the benefit of the doubt at the top of its own band.

The most recent entry is September 2025 at 116,873 kilometres and the work named is a full interior and exterior detail, a headlight polish, a wheel alignment and a balance.

No mechanical work is dated anywhere in the advertisement, and the car has covered 510 kilometres in the year since. Against that, what accompanies it is genuinely strong for an import: service history, Supra Registry documentation, auction papers, a Car VX history report, the stock airbox and the rear wiper assembly so both deletes can be reversed, and two keys.

The equipment list calls the brakes a '2/1 Factory Big Brake Setup', and two-pot front with one-pot rear is the small factory system rather than the RZ's four-pot Brembo. On an RZ-S the brakes are the clearest thing separating the grade from an RZ, so this reads as a loose label in a long list rather than a misdescription, and nothing is taken off for it. It is worth one question before bidding.

A$0 with seven days and nineteen hours to run, against 164 views and 8 saves. The 930 Turbo open on this log is carrying 1,449 views and 165 saves. This lot has been up for hours rather than days and nothing in it constrains the call. Buyer's premium of six per cent plus GST applies on top, minimum A$2,200 and capped at A$12,100 including GST, so a $74,000 hammer is about $78,880 to the buyer. Predicted hammer $66,000 to $84,000, midpoint $74,000. Closes on or about 10 September 2026.

And the base moves with it.

Two things are visible in the lot images that the advertisement's long equipment list does not mention.

The front plate reads CLUB PERMIT, VICTORIA, 078H·08, and two club permit labels are displayed on the windscreen. The listing says the car is now registered in Australia, which is true and is not the same thing. The Victorian club permit scheme is restricted use: 45 or 90 permitted days a year, conditional on continuing membership of an approved club, limited to vehicles more than twenty-five years old, and on a modified car conditional on meeting the state's own modification standards. A buyer who wants to drive it without counting days registers it conventionally.

Because it answers the strangest number in the advertisement: 510 kilometres covered in the twelve months since the September 2025 entry. A car driven on 45 or 90 permitted days a year is exactly the car that does that, so the reading and the usage now agree with each other instead of being asserted alongside each other. It is also the one thing in this listing an interstate bidder should price for himself, because the permit travels with the club membership and the Victorian registration rather than with the car.

In the same images and appears nowhere in the equipment list. The factory seats are still in the car, and that is what this turns on: the library's interior line prices seats, steering wheel or a cage changed at three per cent, and none of those three is what is fitted. A harness on standard seats is reversible and small, so it is recorded and not priced.

A call that moves without a reason is not a call. One is a use restriction that explains the odometer rather than undermining it, and the other is a bolt-out item. They are written down because a bidder should find them here before he finds them in the photographs.

$35,250 from 43 bids with three days left is 52 per cent under the call, and 43 bids is a room testing the number, not ignoring it. The record under this call is the worst case of a fault audited across the library on 6 September: its own counted sales pool three automatics against four manuals that trade about 32 per cent apart, and it carries a 22.8 per cent median held-out error, the highest of any record tested. A value blended across two gearboxes prices neither of them. The call is not moved, because it was published before the room answered and it will be graded as written. The record under it is now first in the queue to be split, or, if the counts will not carry a split, to say which gearbox it leans towards.