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Reference photograph of a Nissan Skyline GTS-R Group A homologation
Valuation · Nissan · HR31 · 1987-89

Nissan Skyline GTS-R Group A homologation

2.0L turbo six (RB20DET-R) · 154 kW / 245 Nm · 5sp manual · RWD
BUYRated within the $30k to $100k band · 10 of 94 at this money
Model value
$75,000
Must gain each year to break even
+7.4%
The projection does not clear it, and nor does most of the library.
CarQuant score
60/100
Scored against the $30k to $100k band, not the whole library
Evidence grade
Thin
One to three recorded Australian sales
$75,000
$67,160 lowhigh $147,148
Calibrated to a thin record
Two official Shannons results: $80,000 (Nov 2020, Build No. 80) and $55,500 (Apr 2021)

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Price history

Today $75,000 · modelled median at five years $100,755
Solid line: the value this library has carriedDashed from 2026: modelled · even money $83,084 to $125,158
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 ($67,160 to $147,148). 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

Strong within its price band. Scores 60/100, ranking 10 of 94 in the $30k to $100k band. Demand durability is the strongest input, ownership economics the weakest.
Running it costs about $5,400 a year (7.2% of value), which is what the economics score measures. All in, including the projected value change, it is $1,129 a year.
The model's five year median is $100,755, a +34.3% move, with the tenth percentile at $67,160.
Value calibrated to a thin record. Treat the level as provisional.
Evidence
Thin2 recorded sales
Off its peak
at peak
Value band
wide
At least one recorded transaction plus a source. Direction is sound, the exact level less so.
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)$1,129 a year all in, +34.3% median value move
Long term (10-15 years)Scarcity case already formed
Negotiate from$75,000

Recorded sales

Every recorded observation, and when
2 rows on record
$84k$66k$47k
202120222023202420252026
the value this record published, year by yearnow $75ksold
Every row, with its price and note (2) ↓
Library value against the sold record
2 sales · median $67,750
Value $75,000
$55,500$80,000
Apr 2021Shannons$55,500Sold
Ordinary example at the Autumn timed auction, lot 133, official results sheet
Nov 2020Shannons$80,000Sold
Build No. 80, official results sheet, lot 130 - a build-number car with the premium that carries
2 completed Australian sales of 2 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 $30k to $100k band median
94 cars in band · ink tick marks the median
Ownership economics30% of total
44/100-11
Scarcity25% of total
72/100+19
Demand durability20% of total
80/100+14
Liquidity15% of total
46/100-6
Risk resilience10% of total
62/100+26
Sub-scores run 0-100 before weighting; the weighted total is 60/100. Medians are computed live from the 94 cars currently in the $30k to $100k band, so this picture moves when the library does.
The working behind each factor: baseline and drivers ↓
Ownership economics30% weight
44/100
Baseline52 pts
− 7.2% of value a year to run-8 pts
Sub-score (baseline plus drivers, clamped 0-100)44 pts
Scarcity25% weight
72/100
Baseline42 pts
+ 823 built worldwide, roughly two dozen here+30 pts
Sub-score (baseline plus drivers, clamped 0-100)72 pts
Demand durability20% weight
80/100
Baseline44 pts
+ The car that fathered the R32 GT-R, with Group A Bathurst history+26 pts
+ R32 price rises pulling the predecessor up+10 pts
Sub-score (baseline plus drivers, clamped 0-100)80 pts
Liquidity15% weight
46/100
Baseline14 pts
+ 75 days on market+24 pts
+ A sale a year locally at best+8 pts
Sub-score (baseline plus drivers, clamped 0-100)46 pts
Risk resilience10% weight
62/100
Baseline84 pts
− Import odometer and originality verification-14 pts
− Model-specific parts scarcity-8 pts
Sub-score (baseline plus drivers, clamped 0-100)62 pts
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What it costs to own · about 2,500 km a year

Annual cost of access, excl. fuel
$5,400a year
Share of value per year
7.2%
Scheduled servicing$1,20022%
Tyres, annualised$65012%
Registration and CTP$75014%
Insurance$1,40026%
Sinking fund (failure table)$1,40026%
All-in annualised (a different number)
Purchase (model value plus duty)$78,000
Running costs × 5 years$27,000
Median exit, net of selling cost$99,355
All-in annualised over 5 years$1,129/yr
Share of value per year1.5%
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
7.4%a year, only to get the money back
This library projects
+6.1%a year
The projection falls 1.3 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$75,000
Stamp duty$3,000
Running costs x 5 years$27,000
Selling cost at exit, 1.9% of the salescales with price
Sale price needed at +5 years$106,997
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 turbo six (RB20DET-R)
Power / torque154 kW / 245 Nm
0-100 km/h7 s
Transmission5sp manual
DriveRWD
Kerb weight1,325 kg
Built worldwide823
Delivered to AustraliaNone. Every car here is an import
Effective AU survivors25 (imported)
Australian sales / year2
Typical days on market75 days
Launch price$28,000

What moves the price on this model

Colour hierarchy
Blue Grey two-tone (every car left the line in it)0%
Options
Unmodified RB20DET-R with original intercooler+12%
Documented import history and kilometres+8%
NISMO catalogue parts with paperwork+4%
Odometer sensitivity±1.4% per 10,000 km vs 40,000 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
$100,755
+34.3% on today
The model's figure. Today it is $75,000.
Even odds it lands between $83,084 and $125,158.
$67,160 lowhigh $147,148
The shaded range is even money and 51% 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 97% of the library.
-26.6% weakest projected move in the librarystrongest +73.1%
Five-year cost of ownership
Value change alone: +$25,755 across five years.
Running costs over the same period: $27,000.
Duty and expected selling costs: $4,400.
Net cost of five years of ownership: $5,645, or $1,129 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

The homologation Skyline before the GT-R legend started, at a fraction of R32 GT-R money, with two official Australian auction results proving the market exists. Group A provenance is the strongest rising theme in this library.

The case against

Two sales seven months apart differed by 44 per cent, which is what thin markets do; every car is an import needing forensic verification; and the buyer pool that knows what an HR31 is remains small.

Known faults and risks

Risk 1Odometer and originality verification on imports
Risk 2Model-specific RB20DET-R parts scarcity
Risk 3A small and specialist buyer pool
RB20DET-R rebuild$12,000
Ceramic turbo failure$4,500
Sill and turret rust$8,000

Similar cars, and what they cost to run

Evidence behind this valueThin · 2 recorded sales
Carried value
$75,000
Historical price
2016 · $30,0002026 · $75,000
Thin
At least one recorded transaction plus a source. Direction is sound, the exact level less so.
Two sales on the official sheets, seven months apart

Build No. 80 made $80,000 at the November 2020 Spring timed auction, lot 130, and a second car made $55,500 the following April, lot 133. Read together they say what a two-sale record can say - that a documented build-number car with the right history carries a meaningful premium over an ordinary example, and that the spread between the two is condition and provenance, not a moving market.

Read the rest of the evidence notes (2 more)
The car itself

823 built in a single colour to homologate the Skyline for Group A, the car that begat the R32 GT-R programme after the GTS-R proved the six-cylinder turbo formula at Bathurst against the Sierras and Walkinshaws it now shares a paddock with at auction.

The honest caveat

Every Australian car is a private import, so odometer and originality verification carry the whole valuation, and the RB20DET-R's model-specific intercooler and camshaft are exactly the parts a modified car has lost.

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