Nissan GT-R Premium

A 23,617-kilometre Black Edition made $90,000 and a 102,000-kilometre Premium made $85,000 - four times the distance for six per cent less money. Buyers of these are pricing condition and service history, not the odometer, and a low-distance R35 does not carry the premium a low-distance NSX does.

A 26,150-kilometre car failed in January 2026, which is the second-lowest distance in the entire set. An 89,062-kilometre car failed in November 2025.

Two 2008 Japan-delivered imports ran at Nunawading twenty days apart. The first, on a bodykit with carbon elements and an aftermarket exhaust, made $80,000 on 18 August. The second, wrapped black over its original white with a widebody, canards, a vented bonnet, louvres, decals and a retrimmed cabin, ended unsold on 12 September after reaching $76,500.

The call on the second lot took minus 8 per cent for the build against the first lot's hammer and published the reasoning before the close; the room did not go there. That is the first direct local evidence that a cosmetic transformation on this model costs more than eight per cent, not less, and it arrived as a failure rather than as a price - which is the only way this kind of evidence ever arrives. It is not counted as a sale and it does not move the fitted value, because a lot that does not clear reports a reserve as much as it reports a market. SOURCING: aggregator-surfaced results, unconfirmed against the auction house, the weakest evidence grade here.

On 18 August 2026 a 2008 R35 made $80,000 at Collecting Cars in Nunawading, Victoria. Australia did not receive the R35 until 2009, so a 2008 car is by definition a Japan-delivered import - this one complied in July 2026, still unregistered, showing 72,595 kilometres that are indicated rather than warranted. It also carried an aftermarket bodykit with carbon elements, an aftermarket exhaust, 20-inch Rohana wheels and a dashboard retrimmed in Alcantara. Every one of those is a deduction against the Australian-delivered 2009-11 Premium this record describes.

Adjusted back for import, modification and registration, and credited for kilometres well under the 100,000 expected, the result back-solves to somewhere between $91,000 and $102,000 for a clean Australian-delivered Premium. The width of that range is honest - it depends on how heavily the import penalty is weighted in a market where imported R35s are common - but $92,000 sits at the bottom of it.

The paragraph above was written while this record carried $92,000; the fifteen counted local results have since put the fitted value at $78,900 and the carried figure at $79,000. One adjusted import cannot outweigh fifteen local sales, so the $91,000 to $102,000 range is recorded as what that single lot implied, not as the value.

Two different screens of this application priced the same lot a day apart off the same unchanged $92,000 base, and they disagreed by more than the width of the market. On 12 August the listing analyser was given the advertisement text and returned $78,200, having applied the import penalty, the bodykit, the exhaust and the colour: 2.3% from the hammer, and that figure is on the record page as a graded call. On 13 August the auction-call sweep produced a $91,816 midpoint for the same car - the library value with almost nothing taken off for the actual lot - which the hammer put 12.9% below. Note the order. The accurate figure came first and the sweep produced a worse one over the top of it the following day, having never read the analyser's work. That is a pipeline defect rather than a valuation failure, and it is the third time it has shown up after the Evo X and the DB9.

Working the analyser's -15.0% backwards from the $80,000 hammer puts a clean Australian-delivered Premium at about $94,100, which is 2.3% above the carried $92,000. The value is deliberately not moved to that figure. A base fitted to the sale that just validated it proves nothing next time, and the 12 August call is only worth reading because this number was set before the car sold.

The analyser credited +4.1% for 72,595 kilometres against 100,000 expected, on an odometer the advertisement itself describes as indicated and not warranted. An unwarranted reading should not earn full credit, and on an import with no local history it arguably should earn none.

850 Australian-delivered cars against a large and steady import supply, and the imports set the visible floor while the local cars are what buyers actually chase. Original, unmodified, Australian-delivered examples are the scarce configuration and the one this value describes - the car that just sold was none of those things and still made $80,000.

The header on this entry says R35 pre-facelift, 2009 to 2011, 357 kilowatts, and it has said so since the record was written. The 2014 Premium Edition called at Heathwood on 18 September is a DBA on the facelift engine at 404 kilowatts and 632 newton metres, and it is a materially different car.

Fifteen counted Australian results sit on this page and exactly one of them publishes a build year: the $115,500 Perth result of February 2024, a 2011. The other fourteen are dated by sale rather than by manufacture, so the set may already be pooling pre-facelift and facelift cars and this record would not know. If it is, the fitted $78,900 is a blend of two specifications and the pre-facelift figure is lower than it reads.

The Heathwood call took this record's within-run year term at its ceiling, plus 12, and named it in its own thesis as a proxy for a number the Australian market has never confirmed, worth $9,378 of an $86,000 call.

Is build years on the fourteen rows that lack them, which is a reading exercise against the lot pages rather than new research, and it is the most useful unspent hour available on this entry.