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Valuation · HSV · E3 · 2010-13

HSV ClubSport R8

6.2L V8 (LS3) · 325 kW / 550 Nm · 6sp manual · RWD
CONSIDERRated within the $30k to $100k band · 30 of 94 at this money
Model value
$60,035
Must gain each year to break even
+9.4%
The projection does not clear it, and nor does most of the library.
CarQuant score
56/100
Scored against the $30k to $100k band, not the whole library
Evidence grade
Thin
One to three recorded Australian sales
$60,035
$46,675 lowhigh $85,790
Calibrated to a thin record
95recorded results
One Australian sale: $47,000 in January 2024 for a one-owner SV Black Edition on a replacement crate engine. Wider HSV market: 95 auction results averaging $109,442 across all models
Measured across this library, a value resting on a single Australian result runs high about six times in ten, by a median of five per cent.

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Should make, typical example
$60,035
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Price history

Today $60,035 · modelled median at five years $68,286
Solid line: the value this library has carriedDashed from 2026: modelled · even money $56,919 to $77,493
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 ($46,675 to $85,790). 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 56/100, ranking 30 of 94 in the $30k to $100k band. Risk resilience is the strongest input, scarcity the weakest.
Running it costs about $5,800 a year (9.7% of value), which is what the economics score measures. All in, including the projected value change, it is $4,970 a year.
The model's five year median is $68,286, a +13.7% move, with the tenth percentile at $46,675.
Value calibrated to a thin record. Treat the level as provisional.
Evidence
Thin1 recorded sale
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)$4,970 a year all in, +13.7% median value move
Long term (10-15 years)Scarcity case already formed
Negotiate from$60,035

Recorded sales

Every recorded observation, and when
1 row on record
Every row, with its price and note (1) ↓
Jan 2024Collecting Cars$47,000Sold
SOLD. 16 Jan 2024, Perth WA, 131,635km with 1,000km on a replacement engine. 2012 Clubsport R8 SV Black Edition, build number 65 of the 100 saloons, Alto Grey with matte black accents, one owner from new on a seventeen-entry service book from 2,699km in 2012. The original LS3 hydrolocked and was replaced with a crate engine, service and dyno tune at a documented $17,636 in August 2023; the gearbox had already been replaced under warranty in 2021. Front-end damage in transport, repaired with factory parts
1 completed Australian sale of 1 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
56/100+1
Scarcity25% of total
33/100-20
Demand durability20% of total
66/100even
Liquidity15% of total
68/100+16
Risk resilience10% of total
72/100+36
Sub-scores run 0-100 before weighting; the weighted total is 56/100. 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
56/100
Baseline80 pts
− 9.7% of value a year to run-24 pts
Sub-score (baseline plus drivers, clamped 0-100)56 pts
Scarcity25% weight
33/100
Baseline15 pts
+ 4,100 survivors of 6,200 built+18 pts
Sub-score (baseline plus drivers, clamped 0-100)33 pts
Demand durability20% weight
66/100
Baseline30 pts
+ HSV brand closed, no successor+24 pts
+ LS3 manual formula extinct+12 pts
Sub-score (baseline plus drivers, clamped 0-100)66 pts
Liquidity15% weight
68/100
Baseline10 pts
+ 51 days on market+38 pts
+ 480 sales a year+20 pts
Sub-score (baseline plus drivers, clamped 0-100)68 pts
Risk resilience10% weight
72/100
Baseline90 pts
− 12% volatility-10 pts
− Theft targeting of HSVs-8 pts
Sub-score (baseline plus drivers, clamped 0-100)72 pts
Model output, not advice or a valuation. Verify independently before acting.

What it costs to own · about 8,276 km a year

Annual cost of access, excl. fuel
$5,800a year
Share of value per year
9.7%
Scheduled servicing$1,05018%
Tyres, annualised$1,45025%
Registration and CTP$75013%
Insurance$1,60028%
Sinking fund (failure table)$95016%
All-in annualised (a different number)
Purchase (model value plus duty)$62,436
Running costs × 5 years$29,000
Median exit, net of selling cost$66,586
All-in annualised over 5 years$4,970/yr
Share of value per year8.3%
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
9.4%a year, only to get the money back
This library projects
+2.6%a year
The projection falls 6.8 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$60,035
Stamp duty$2,401
Running costs x 5 years$29,000
Selling cost at exit, 2.8% of the salescales with price
Sale price needed at +5 years$94,101
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

Engine6.2L V8 (LS3)
Power / torque325 kW / 550 Nm
0-100 km/h4.9 s
Transmission6sp manual
DriveRWD
Kerb weight1,845 kg
Built worldwide6,200
Delivered to Australia6,200
Effective AU survivors4,100
Australian sales / year480
Typical days on market51 days
Launch price$71,990

What moves the price on this model

Colour hierarchy
Sting Red+4%
Phantom Black+2%
Nitrate Silver-1%
Options
Manual over auto+6%
SV enhanced options+3%
20-inch forged wheels+1%
Odometer sensitivity±1% per 10,000 km vs 120,000 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
$68,286
+13.7% on today
The model's figure. Today it is $60,035.
Even odds it lands between $56,919 and $77,493.
$46,675 lowhigh $85,790
The shaded range is even money and 36% 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 67% of the library.
-26.6% weakest projected move in the librarystrongest +73.1%
Five-year cost of ownership
Value change alone: +$8,251 across five years.
Running costs over the same period: $29,000.
Duty and expected selling costs: $4,101.
Net cost of five years of ownership: $24,850, or $4,970 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 volume HSV with the W1 halo above it. Manual LS3 sedans stopped existing in 2017 and values track that fact.

The case against

4,100 survivors is not scarce. The E3 is the entry ticket, not the collectible.

Known faults and risks

Risk 1Theft and reshelling
Risk 2AFM lifter issues on autos
Risk 3Sentiment tied to W1 results
AFM delete or lifter repair$3,200
Diff hat bush$700

Similar cars, and what they cost to run

Evidence behind this valueThin · 1 recorded sale
Carried value
$60,035
Historical price
2016 · $42,0002026 · $60,035
Thin
At least one recorded transaction plus a source. Direction is sound, the exact level less so.
The first Australian sale row this record has ever carried, and it is not a clean comparable

A 2012 Clubsport R8 SV Black Edition, build 65 of 100, made $47,000 at Perth in January 2024 showing 131,635 kilometres - but only 1,000 of them on the engine in it. The original LS3 hydrolocked and was replaced with a crate unit at a documented $17,636 in August 2023, and the gearbox had already been replaced under warranty in 2021.

Read the rest of the evidence notes (3 more)
The value does not move on this

A limited-edition car with a replacement engine and a transport-damage repair is not the standard R8 this record prices, and it is one lot. What it does establish is a floor: a high-distance car with a non-original engine and disclosed damage still cleared $47,000 against a carried $60,035, so the ordinary car sitting above that is not in dispute.

What would settle it

An unmodified Clubsport R8 on its original engine. Until one appears this figure rests on the wider HSV aggregate, which spans everything from a $11,750 shell to a $365,000 collectible and describes no single model.

The build plate matters on this one

The SV Black Edition was a hundred-car run and this lot documents its number, which the ordinary Clubsport R8 has no equivalent of.

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This model, today$60,035
Half of sales are further out than$6,711
The report$249
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