Honda Civic Type R
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Put in the asking price and the odometer reading. You will see what this model should make at that reading.
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 (2) ↓
Score breakdown
The working behind each factor: baseline and drivers ↓
What it costs to own · about 6,957 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
Never officially sold in Australia, so every example is a grey import, giving it genuine scarcity within the Type R family. Values have doubled since 2016 and the K20A engine is cheap and reliable to maintain.
The niche import status means a thin market at 42 days on market and buyers need to check import compliance carefully. It lacks the outright poise of the DC2 it followed, which some enthusiasts still prefer. The international record shows genuine Type Rs selling anywhere between GBP910 and GBP15,750, so condition decides far more than the model does, and there is no Australian auction result at all to anchor the value here.
Known faults and risks
Similar cars, and what they cost to run
$23,500 at 87,550 kilometres in Haberfield, New South Wales, November 2023, and $19,000 at 168,527 kilometres at Picnic Point, March 2026. Eighty-one thousand kilometres apart and nineteen per cent apart in price, which is 2.9 per cent per 10,000 kilometres at the distance this record expects. It carried 2.4 and now carries the measured figure.
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The dearer, lower-kilometre car is standard throughout - which is what the market pays for on a Type R - but its service history is lost and its front bumper is damaged. The cheaper, higher-kilometre car has coilovers fitted, which a Type R buyer discounts, but it also has a major service in January 2026, a ceramic coating, a clean roadworthy in March 2026 and three dated dealer stamps. Those pull the gap in opposite directions, so the slope above is arithmetic rather than measurement and the third car will move it.
On two results, and this model was rising over that window, which means the true distance penalty is likely to be steeper than the raw pair reads. SOURCING: both are now read from the Collecting Cars lot pages themselves rather than from an aggregator summary, which is where the condition and service detail above comes from. Replace them with a published house figure when one appears.
The EP3 does not otherwise appear in the Australian auction record, and it is thin internationally too - twenty-four lots, most of them not Type Rs at all. The genuine international Type R results run from GBP910 to GBP15,750, so condition decides far more than the model does, and no foreign figure sets the Australian one.
The paragraph above already names the problem with 2.9: two points, 28 months apart, in a market that was rising over the window, which is distance and date confounded rather than distance measured. At this record's expected distance 2.9 converts to an elasticity of -0.464, more than twice the Japanese performance segment's fitted -0.189, and the model now runs a curve where that extrapolates rather than stopping at a cap. Two observations earn one fifth weight on their own slope and the rest comes from the segment.
The report prices the car in the advertisement.
Send the link. A person reads the advertisement and its photographs and sends back what that Honda Civic Type R is worth, what to offer and when to walk away, with five years of costs at the distance you drive.
The evidence on this model is thin and the report says so on its cover. Read a complete one on a real car first. Seventeen sections, no account, nothing to pay.
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