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Valuation · Renault · Clio II Phase 3 · 2004-05

Renault Clio RS 182

2.0L NA 16v inline four (F4R 738) · 134 kW / 200 Nm · 5sp manual · FWD
CONSIDERRated within the under $30k band · 18 of 46 at this money
Research estimate
$16,000
Must gain each year to break even
+17.1%
The projection does not clear it, and nor does most of the library.
CarQuant score
47/100
Scored against the under $30k band, not the whole library
Evidence grade
Researched
No Australian transaction of any kind
$16,000
$12,145 lowhigh $25,156
Researched, no recorded transaction
No Australian result of any kind. This model turns over privately and through classifieds here, and neither publishes a completed price.
Measured across this library, a value with no Australian result behind it runs high about seven times in ten, by a median of ten per cent. Read this one as a ceiling rather than a midpoint.

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Should make, typical example
$16,000
At about 165,000 km. Enter an asking price to compare.

No Australian sale stands behind this value, so treat the figure as indicative.

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Price history

Today $16,000 · modelled median at five years $18,488
Solid line: the value this library has carriedDashed from 2026: modelled · even money $15,152 to $21,995
The green band is the even-money range and the one to plan on: half of outcomes land inside it. The pale band behind it bounds eight in ten ($12,145 to $25,156). The path is this model's own: it starts along the momentum of its recorded history and bends toward its projected median as the horizon lengthens, so no two cars share a future curve.

The verdict

A defensible case with reservations. Scores 47/100, ranking 18 of 46 in the under $30k band. Demand durability is the strongest input, risk resilience the weakest.
Running it costs about $3,450 a year (21.6% of value), which is what the economics score measures. All in, including the projected value change, it is $3,200 a year.
The model's five year median is $18,488, a +15.5% move, with the tenth percentile at $12,145.
Value is research, not a measurement. Treat the level as indicative and the structure as the analysis.
Evidence
Researched0 recorded sales
Off its peak
at peak
Value band
wide
An external source, but no itemised transactions. Indicative only.
Scored against every recent Australian sale this library holds, half its values land within 11.2 per cent of the price paid and the rest miss by more, in either direction. Projections are therefore damped toward flat in proportion to how little is known, and the plausible band is never narrower than the error the model is known to make.
Short term (1-5 years)$3,200 a year all in, +15.5% median value move
Long term (10-15 years)Scarcity case already formed
Negotiate from$16,000

Recorded sales

No individual sales are logged for this vehicle.
The value is supported by the aggregate evidence noted at the top of this report, but the underlying transactions are not itemised here.

Score breakdown

Against the under $30k band median
46 cars in band · ink tick marks the median
Ownership economics30% of total
31/100-4
Scarcity25% of total
59/100+18
Demand durability20% of total
66/100+10
Liquidity15% of total
59/100even
Risk resilience10% of total
6/100-31
Sub-scores run 0-100 before weighting; the weighted total is 47/100. Medians are computed live from the 46 cars currently in the under $30k band, so this picture moves when the library does.
The working behind each factor: baseline and drivers ↓
Ownership economics30% weight
31/100
Baseline84 pts
− 21.6% of value a year to run-53 pts
Sub-score (baseline plus drivers, clamped 0-100)31 pts
Scarcity25% weight
59/100
Baseline20 pts
+ 120 survivors estimated in Australia+39 pts
Sub-score (baseline plus drivers, clamped 0-100)59 pts
Demand durability20% weight
66/100
Baseline52 pts
+ A 1,110kg naturally aspirated hot hatch, which nothing on sale now replaces+14 pts
+ These were $8,000 cars in 2019 and clean unmodified ones have roughly doubled+10 pts
− Sold here in small numbers, and most survivors have been used hard-10 pts
Sub-score (baseline plus drivers, clamped 0-100)66 pts
Liquidity15% weight
59/100
Baseline12 pts
+ 60 days on market+35 pts
+ 20 sales a year+12 pts
Sub-score (baseline plus drivers, clamped 0-100)59 pts
Risk resilience10% weight
6/100
Baseline56 pts
− A $2,400 belt job on a $16,000 car, and skipping it is the engine-12 pts
− Track use, modification and crash repair are the normal history here-14 pts
− Rear arch and boot floor rust on early cars that lived near the coast-6 pts
− No Australian transaction behind the value-18 pts
Sub-score (baseline plus drivers, clamped 0-100)6 pts
Model output, not advice or a valuation. Verify independently before acting.

What it costs to own · about 7,674 km a year

Annual cost of access, excl. fuel
$3,450a year
Share of value per year
21.6%
Scheduled servicing$78023%
Tyres, annualised$53015%
Registration and CTP$41012%
Insurance$98028%
Sinking fund (failure table)$75022%
All-in annualised (a different number)
Purchase (model value plus duty)$16,640
Running costs × 5 years$17,250
Median exit, net of selling cost$17,888
All-in annualised over 5 years$3,200/yr
Share of value per year20.0%
Cost of access is what the car costs to run. All-in annualised adds depreciation, duty and selling costs across a five year hold. They answer different questions and are labelled separately for that reason.
Break-even appreciation, 5 year hold
17.1%a year, only to get the money back
This library projects
+2.9%a year
The projection falls 14.2 points a year short of the hurdle. On these assumptions this car is a cost, not an asset, which can be an entirely rational thing to buy but should be bought knowing it.
Purchase$16,000
Stamp duty$640
Running costs x 5 years$17,250
Selling cost at exit, 3.8% of the salescales with price
Sale price needed at +5 years$35,210
Storage
Bought at
No forecast is used to compute the hurdle. It is the purchase, the duty, any premium and 5 years of running cost, grossed up for the cost of selling and spread back over the hold. The projection it is measured against is the weakest number in this product and is drawn that way in the chart above. Transport, finance and any restoration spend sit outside it.

Specification

Engine2.0L NA 16v inline four (F4R 738)
Power / torque134 kW / 200 Nm
0-100 km/h7.1 s
Transmission5sp manual
DriveFWD
Kerb weight1,110 kg
Built worldwideNot established
Delivered to AustraliaNot established
Effective AU survivors120
Australian sales / year20
Typical days on market60 days
Launch priceNot established

What moves the price on this model

Colour hierarchy
An original factory colour, unresprayed+5%
A bright period colour rather than silver or black+4%
Resprayed after panel damage-8%
Options
Unmodified, standard suspension and exhaust, with no track history+20%
Cup chassis specification+12%
Cambelt and dephaser pulley done recently, with invoices+10%
Odometer sensitivity±1.1% per 10,000 km vs 165,000 km
Applied on top of these

Condition, history, originality, ownership, delivery and modification multipliers apply to every car in the library. They are applied automatically when an advertisement is analysed, and the schedule is set out once, on the analyser page.

Projected value in five years

Projected value at five years
$18,488
+15.5% on today
The model's figure. Today it is $16,000.
Even odds it lands between $15,152 and $21,995.
$12,145 lowhigh $25,156
The shaded range is even money and 45% wide; the outer figures bound eight outcomes in ten. Band width follows the evidence - a model with a tight measured record carries a tight band.
A stronger five year outlook than 74% of the library.
-26.6% weakest projected move in the librarystrongest +73.1%
Five-year cost of ownership
Value change alone: +$2,488 across five years.
Running costs over the same period: $17,250.
Duty and expected selling costs: $1,240.
Net cost of five years of ownership: $16,000, or $3,200 a year.
The projected value rise offsets part of the running cost. It does not make the car free to own.

The case for and against

The case for

A 1,110kg naturally aspirated hot hatch with 134kW and a five-speed, which is a recipe with no modern equivalent. These were $8,000 cars in 2019 and clean unmodified examples have roughly doubled off that base.

The case against

Australia took the 182 in small numbers and a large share of the survivors have been tracked, modified or crashed, so the unmodified car this value describes is the exception rather than the rule. Nothing publishable anchors the figure - there is no Australian auction result for this model at all.

Known faults and risks

Risk 1Cambelt and dephaser pulley history, which is the engine on this car
Risk 2Track abuse, cracked exhaust manifolds and worn rear beam bearings
Risk 3Rear arch and boot floor rust on early cars from coastal areas
Rear arch and boot floor rust on early coastal cars$4,000
Clutch and dual-mass flywheel$2,850
Cambelt and dephaser pulley - the signature F4R job, and skipping it destroys the engine$2,400
Rear beam bearings and trailing-arm bushes$1,850
Cracked exhaust manifold$1,250
Coil packs and lambda sensors$800

Similar cars, and what they cost to run

Evidence behind this valueResearched · 0 recorded sales
Carried value
$16,000
Historical price
2016 · $9,9002026 · $16,000
Researched
An external source, but no itemised transactions. Indicative only.
The value is research

There is no Australian auction record for this model, the local delivery volume was not found, and the original Australian list price was not found either, so both are left at zero rather than estimated. What is known is that Renault sold the car here as the Clio Sport 182 in small numbers from roughly 2004 to 2006, that these were $8,000 cars in 2019, and that clean unmodified examples have roughly doubled since. A doubling off $8,000 is still a $16,000 car, and that is the entire scale of this record - the percentage move is large and the dollar move is not.

Read the rest of the evidence notes (3 more)
The Trophy is a different market and this page does not price it

Five hundred and fifty 182 Trophys were built, 500 for the United Kingdom and 50 for Switzerland, and none was sold new in Australia. Any Trophy here is a private import sitting in a separate $35,000 to $55,000 bracket. There is a small but real trickle of imported British Cup and Trophy cars arriving, and dropping one of those into a comparable set for an Australian-delivered 182 will read high by a factor of two or more. Overall 182 production volume was not found either, so the built figure is zero.

What actually sets the price is originality and whether it has been on a track

Many local survivors have been modified, tracked or crashed, and the difference between an honest unmodified car and a tidied-up track car is most of the range on this model. Cup chassis is desirable and colour matters, but neither moves the number the way an untouched car does.

The one cost that matters is $2,400

The cambelt and dephaser pulley is the signature F4R job and skipping it destroys the engine, on a car whose entire value is $16,000. Everything else on the fault list is ordinary running cost on an ordinary car: clutch and dual-mass flywheel at $2,850, rear beam bearings and trailing-arm bushes at $1,850, a cracked exhaust manifold at $1,250, coil packs and lambda sensors at $800. This is a cheap car to buy and it is not a cheap car to neglect.

What we will not sell you
We will not price a Renault Clio against an advertisement.

No Australian transaction stands behind this value. A spec-adjusted figure built on it would look precise and would not be, so the report is refused instead of sold with a caveat. That goes for this car and 87 others. Everything above is free and stays free.

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