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Toyota MR2 GT Turbo
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Odometer only. Colour, options, history, condition and the photographs move it further, and that is what the report reads.
Price history
The verdict
Recorded sales
Every row, with its price and note (5) ↓
Score breakdown
The working behind each factor: baseline and drivers ↓
What it costs to own · about 5,179 km a year
Specification
What moves the price on this model
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
The case for and against
AU survivors are estimated at 520 against steady demand from the 25-year import wave. Values have almost doubled since 2016 and mid-engine handling keeps it distinct from other JDM coupes.
Servicing a transverse turbo mid-engine car costs more than a front-engine rival. Snap oversteer at the limit narrows the buyer pool, and parts increasingly come from Japan at import prices. Only two of the four Australian results are clean comparables for a standard GT Turbo, and no confirmed turbo appears anywhere in the international record either - the British lots are naturally aspirated GT cars, which Britain sold and Australia largely did not.
Known faults and risks
Similar cars, and what they cost to run
Strip the one engine-swapped car and the remaining four correlate with distance at MINUS 0.974, the tightest fit measured anywhere in this library: $28,250 at 8,095km, $25,000 at 34,859km, $19,500 at 208,554km, $15,249 at 247,727km. The implied slope is 1.9 per cent per 10,000 kilometres; this record carried 2.4, a quarter too steep.
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The same exercise on the MX-5 NA in this library returns PLUS 0.32, and on the S14 minus 0.32. Distance prices an MR2 and it does not price those two. A single library-wide assumption that kilometres always matter the same amount is wrong in both directions, and those three records are the evidence.
The 1989 car at $27,750 has a K24 fitted and the 1993 GT-i at $28,250 is naturally aspirated rather than the GT Turbo this record covers. Both carried words saying they were context and neither carried the canonical exclusion, so both were being counted as ordinary comparables for as long as this record has existed. The 1996 Sonic Shadow is a colour and trim edition of the car this record describes and it stays counted.
The K24 car at $27,750 was the single highest counted result and it was propping the value. On the three that remain, fitted to the 145,000 kilometres this record expects, the evidence supports roughly $19,000 against a carried $27,000. That gap is not resolved in this revision. Two of the three are 2021 and 2022 results at more than 200,000 kilometres and the third is a 34,859-kilometre car, so the set is thin at the distance the value is quoted at, and the honest position is that the number is now unsupported rather than that it is wrong by $8,000. The next standard GT Turbo result at ordinary distance settles it. That the swapped car still made $27,750 at 108,750km in March 2026 is interesting and is not scored - one result cannot tell you whether the market forgave the swap or paid for it. SOURCING: Collecting Cars lots surfaced through an aggregator and not confirmed against the auction house, which is the weakest evidence grade in this library. Replace them with a published figure when one appears.
And the survivor arithmetic it leaned on then still stands: about 1,400 came here and roughly 380 are thought to survive.
Twenty-one MR2 lots appear in the British record and not one is confirmed as a Turbo. Britain never officially sold the 3S-GTE turbo car this entry describes; the UK-market SW20 was the naturally aspirated GT and GT 16V, and turbos reached Britain only as private imports. Every lot catalogued as GT or GT 16V should be read as the naturally aspirated car. Those eight GT lots sold between GBP2,226 and GBP15,373 with a median near GBP7,419, and three plainly catalogued SW20s made GBP3,825 to GBP10,968. Four lots are ZZW30 MR2 Roadsters - the later, lighter, naturally aspirated convertible, a different car again - and sold between GBP1,960 and GBP3,360, a median of GBP1,999. The GT is worth about 3.7 times the Roadster, and the turbo should sit above the GT again, but by how much cannot be measured from this record. So the useful conclusion here is negative: this data establishes a floor under the model but does not price the turbo, and the value carried here should not be read as supported by it.
The report prices the car in the advertisement.
Send the link. A person reads the advertisement and its photographs and sends back what that Toyota MR2 GT Turbo is worth, what to offer and when to walk away, with five years of costs at the distance you drive.
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