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Reference photograph of a Honda NSX
Valuation · Honda · NA1 · 1991-97

Honda NSX

3.0L NA V6 (C30A) · 201 kW / 285 Nm · 5sp manual · RWD
CONSIDERRated within the over $100k band · 40 of 104 at this money
Model value
$104,000
Must gain each year to break even
+8.1%
The projection does not clear it, and nor does most of the library.
CarQuant score
64/100
Scored against the over $100k band, not the whole library
Evidence grade
Measured
Four or more recorded Australian sales
$104,000
$88,261 lowhigh $147,061
Calibrated to recorded sales
Twenty-seven Australian results, 2021 to 2026: twenty-four fitted separately by gearbox, plus three Shannons sales carrying neither an odometer nor a gearbox

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Should make, typical example
$104,000
At about 100,000 km. Enter an asking price to compare.

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Price history

Today $104,000 · modelled median at five years $113,398
Solid line: the value this library has carriedDashed from 2026: modelled · even money $100,176 to $131,105
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 ($88,261 to $147,061). 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 64/100, ranking 40 of 104 in the over $100k band. Demand durability is the strongest input, liquidity the weakest.
Running it costs about $7,850 a year (7.5% of value), which is what the economics score measures. All in, including the projected value change, it is $7,602 a year.
The model's five year median is $113,398, a +9.0% move, with the tenth percentile at $88,261.
Value calibrated to recorded sales.
Evidence
Measured27 recorded sales
Off its peak
-27%
Value band
wide
Multiple recorded transactions plus an aggregate source. Treat the level as reliable.
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)$7,602 a year all in, +9.0% median value move
Long term (10-15 years)Scarcity case already formed
Negotiate from$104,000

Recorded sales

Every recorded observation, and when
29 rows on record
$252k$146k$39k
202120222023202420252026
the value this record published, year by yearnow $104kwhat the model expects across 15k–171k kmsoldcontext, excluded
Every row, with its price and note (29) ↓
Library value against the sold record
27 sales · median $90,750
Value $104,000
$62,000$201,500
2026Collecting Cars$202,500Context, excluded
SOLD but excluded from this record. 27 Jul 2026, Brisbane QLD, 9,000km, MANUAL. TOMIYOSHI RACING WIDE-BODY with a 3.2 stroker engine - a different car from the standard NA1 coupe this record describes. It was the equal-highest counted result and was anchoring the top of the manual regression
2026Collecting Cars$122,888Sold
SOLD and counted. 4 May 2026, Blackburn VIC, 71,058km, MANUAL - but a 5-to-6-speed RETROFIT, not a factory manual. The factory-manual line predicts $146,800 for this car at this distance and date; it made 16.3 per cent less, which is the only direct price this library has on the word factory
2026Collecting Cars$92,500Sold
SOLD. 23 Apr 2026, Cottesloe WA, 81,028km, automatic
2026Collecting Cars$85,000Sold
SOLD. 12 Mar 2026, Smithfield NSW, 164,304km, automatic
2025Collecting Cars$201,500Sold
SOLD. 3 Apr 2025, Melbourne VIC, 14,778km, MANUAL
2025Collecting Cars$140,000Sold
SOLD. 26 Jun 2025, Sydney NSW, 134,913km, MANUAL
2025Collecting Cars$113,500Sold
SOLD. 6 Mar 2025, Yeronga QLD, 158,765km, MANUAL
2025Collecting Cars$87,000Sold
SOLD. 9 Sep 2025, Kew VIC, 77,739km, automatic
2025Collecting Cars$81,000Sold
SOLD. 29 Oct 2025, Sydney NSW, 170,770km, automatic
2024Collecting Cars$135,000Sold
SOLD. 28 Oct 2024, Dianella WA, 94,518km, MANUAL
2024Collecting Cars$127,500Sold
SOLD. 23 Feb 2024, North Lakes QLD, 67,094km, MANUAL
2024Collecting Cars$125,000Sold
SOLD. 24 Jan 2024, Yandina QLD, 82,313km, automatic
2024Collecting Cars$93,001Sold
SOLD. 13 Nov 2024, Drouin VIC, 169,559km, MANUAL
2024Collecting Cars$90,750Sold
SOLD. 4 Mar 2024, Manningham SA, 133,727km, automatic
2024Collecting Cars$81,385Sold
SOLD. 10 Apr 2024, Mudgeeraba QLD, 92,933km, automatic
2024Collecting Cars$79,000Sold
SOLD. 14 May 2024, Sydney NSW, 90,660km, automatic
2024Collecting Cars$72,000Sold
SOLD. 19 Dec 2024, Williamstown VIC, 44,279km, automatic. The lowest-distance automatic in the set and nearly the cheapest car in it
2023Collecting Cars$113,500Context, excluded
SOLD but excluded from this record. 28 Jul 2023, Melbourne VIC, 119,645km, automatic, NSX-T Targa - a dearer variant, and a different variant from the fixed-roof coupe this record describes
2023Collecting Cars$101,500Sold
SOLD. 8 May 2023, Perth WA, 80,900km, automatic
2023Collecting Cars$88,000Sold
SOLD. 26 May 2023, Mittagong NSW, 43,678km, automatic
2023Collecting Cars$81,000Sold
SOLD. 24 Feb 2023, Smithfield NSW, 136,694km, automatic
2023Collecting Cars$74,000Sold
SOLD. 11 Sep 2023, Lyndhurst VIC, 133,272km, automatic
2023Collecting Cars$70,000Sold
SOLD. 12 Oct 2023, Melbourne VIC, 136,809km, automatic
Feb 2023Shannons$62,000Sold
1991 NSX. The most recent Australian result and the lowest
2022Collecting Cars$118,888Sold
SOLD. 13 Apr 2022, Doncaster East VIC, 98,800km, MANUAL
Nov 2021Shannons$80,500Sold
1992 NSX
2021Collecting Cars$134,000Sold
SOLD. 5 Oct 2021, Templestowe Lower VIC, 92,516km, MANUAL
2021Collecting Cars$81,600Sold
SOLD. 5 Nov 2021, Sydney NSW, 149,273km, automatic
Aug 2020Shannons$145,000Sold
1991 NSX. The highest of three Australian results and the earliest
27 completed Australian sales of 29 rows. Rows marked asking, no sale, or context are shown for honesty but do not count toward the evidence grade: an ask is not a transaction, a pass-in is a refusal, and a provenance or overseas result does not price the ordinary local car. The badge on every row is computed by the same rule as the grade, so the two cannot drift apart.

Score breakdown

Against the over $100k band median
104 cars in band · ink tick marks the median
Ownership economics30% of total
68/100-1
Scarcity25% of total
70/100+5
Demand durability20% of total
79/100+1
Liquidity15% of total
17/100-15
Risk resilience10% of total
76/100+42
Sub-scores run 0-100 before weighting; the weighted total is 64/100. Medians are computed live from the 104 cars currently in the over $100k band, so this picture moves when the library does.
The working behind each factor: baseline and drivers ↓
Ownership economics30% weight
68/100
Baseline80 pts
− 7.5% of value a year to run-12 pts
Sub-score (baseline plus drivers, clamped 0-100)68 pts
Scarcity25% weight
70/100
Baseline40 pts
+ 186 registered in Australia+30 pts
Sub-score (baseline plus drivers, clamped 0-100)70 pts
Demand durability20% weight
79/100
Baseline45 pts
+ Senna development provenance+24 pts
+ Usable analogue supercar consensus+10 pts
Sub-score (baseline plus drivers, clamped 0-100)79 pts
Liquidity15% weight
17/100
Baseline0 pts
+ 98 days on market+13 pts
+ 15 sales a year+4 pts
Sub-score (baseline plus drivers, clamped 0-100)17 pts
Risk resilience10% weight
76/100
Baseline90 pts
− 9% volatility, mature collectors-6 pts
− Snap ring gearbox range check-8 pts
Sub-score (baseline plus drivers, clamped 0-100)76 pts
Model output, not advice or a valuation. Verify independently before acting.

What it costs to own · about 3,125 km a year

Annual cost of access, excl. fuel
$7,850a year
Share of value per year
7.5%
Scheduled servicing$1,60020%
Tyres, annualised$1,10014%
Registration and CTP$75010%
Insurance$2,70034%
Sinking fund (failure table)$1,70022%
All-in annualised (a different number)
Purchase (model value plus duty)$108,160
Running costs × 5 years$39,250
Median exit, net of selling cost$109,398
All-in annualised over 5 years$7,602/yr
Share of value per year7.3%
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
8.1%a year, only to get the money back
This library projects
+1.7%a year
The projection falls 6.3 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$104,000
Stamp duty$4,160
Running costs x 5 years$39,250
Selling cost at exit, 3.8% of the salescales with price
Sale price needed at +5 years$153,306
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

Engine3.0L NA V6 (C30A)
Power / torque201 kW / 285 Nm
0-100 km/h5.7 s
Transmission5sp manual
DriveRWD
Kerb weight1,370 kg
Built worldwide18,000
Delivered to Australia250
Effective AU survivors186
Australian sales / year24
Typical days on market98 days
Launch price$159,900

What moves the price on this model

Colour hierarchy
Formula Red+4%
Grand Prix White+3%
Berlina Black+2%
Options
Factory manual, which sits 28% over this blended base (an automatic sits 17% under it)+28%
Original paint and interior+5%
Genuine NSX-R parts, documented+6%
Odometer sensitivity±2.5% per 10,000 km vs 100,000 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
$113,398
+9.0% on today
The model's figure. Today it is $104,000.
Even odds it lands between $100,176 and $131,105.
$88,261 lowhigh $147,061
The shaded range is even money and 31% 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 55% of the library.
-26.6% weakest projected move in the librarystrongest +73.1%
Five-year cost of ownership
Value change alone: +$9,398 across five years.
Running costs over the same period: $39,250.
Duty and expected selling costs: $8,160.
Net cost of five years of ownership: $38,010, or $7,602 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

Honda reliability in an analogue mid-engine supercar. The global market re-rated it years ago and Australia follows with a lag.

The case against

The easy appreciation happened between 2016 and 2022. From here it compounds slowly, not dramatically. The three Shannons sales in the record fall from $145,000 in 2020 to $62,000 in 2023, the automatic fit shows no distance response and almost no trend at all, and the international index has dropped roughly 47 per cent from its 2022 peak. Both markets are pointing down, and this entry previously carried a rising value built on an aggregator figure that no auction result supports.

Known faults and risks

Risk 1Snap ring failure window transmissions
Risk 2Crash repairs on aluminium body
Risk 3Auto cars diluting averages
Snap ring gearbox repair$5,500
Climate control unit rebuild$1,200

Similar cars, and what they cost to run

Evidence behind this valueMeasured · 27 recorded sales
Carried value
$104,000
Historical price
2016 · $88,0002026 · $104,000
Measured
Multiple recorded transactions plus an aggregate source. Treat the level as reliable.
Twenty-seven Australian results, twenty-four of them fittable, the largest sample in this library, and the gearbox splits them in two
Read the rest of the evidence notes (12 more)
Two rows were removed from the fit on re-reading and one of them was the equal-highest result in the set

The $202,500 Brisbane car of July 2026 is a TOMIYOSHI RACING WIDE-BODY WITH A 3.2 STROKER ENGINE - a different object from the car this record describes, and it was setting the top of the manual line. The $113,500 Melbourne car of July 2023 is an NSX-T Targa, a dearer variant this record's own text already said was not a comparable while the classifier counted it anyway. Prose is not an exclusion; both now carry the canonical form.

The fit, recomputed

Nine manual cars, fifteen automatics, log-price on odometer AND date together. MANUAL: minus 3.4 per cent per 10,000 kilometres, plus 1.5 per cent a year, R-squared 0.65. AUTOMATIC: minus 0.9 per cent per 10,000 kilometres, plus 0.2 per cent a year, R-squared 0.06 - which is to say the automatics do not respond to distance at all.

And so the manual premium collapses as the cars are driven

Fitted like for like it is plus 71 per cent at 60,000 kilometres, plus 55 per cent at 100,000, and plus 40 per cent at 140,000. That is the signature of a collector premium rather than a driver preference. Collectors pay for the manual and they only pay for it on cars that have not been used.

The retrofit car is the best thing in this record

$122,888 at Blackburn VIC in May 2026, 71,058 kilometres, manual - but a FIVE-TO-SIX-SPEED RETROFIT, not a factory manual. The factory-manual line predicts $146,800 for that car at that distance and date. It made 16.3 per cent less.

That is a direct price on the word

'FACTORY', measured on one car rather than asserted, and it is the only measurement of its kind in this library.

It is counted anyway,

Deliberately: it is a standard NA1 coupe with a standard engine, and excluding it would raise this record's value about 5 per cent, which is the wrong reason to exclude anything. Excluding it would give a blended $108,750 instead of $103,993. The direction is disclosed so the choice can be checked.

The value is $104,000,

The sample fitted to the 100,000 kilometres this record expects and blended at the observed 38 per cent manual to 62 per cent automatic mix.

A single distance penalty cannot represent both cars

And the 2.5 carried below is a blend of 3.4 and 0.9 weighted to the sample. It is wrong for every individual car and it is the best a one-number field can do.

This record should be split

Into manual and automatic entries.

One no-sale

A 1995 NSX-T at 345,338 kilometres failed in Melbourne, May 2026.

Three Shannons results sit separately and are not part of the twenty-four

$145,000 in August 2020, $80,500 in November 2021 and $62,000 in February 2023. They are the weakest evidence here - none carries an odometer or a gearbox, so none could enter the fit - and they are kept because a second auction room is worth having.

International context

Eighty-eight lots, 59 per cent sold; the index peaked in 2022 and has fallen since, down roughly 47 per cent by 2024. Type-R, Type-S and NSX-T cars are dearer variants and are not comparables for a standard coupe.

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This model, today$104,000
Half of sales are further out than$11,626
The report$249
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