Nissan Silvia Spec R

$77,888 at 97,843km in Adelaide, December 2024, is 68 per cent above the fitted line at that distance and nothing since has come close.

Silvia-badged cars are Japanese imports, 200SX cars are Australian-delivered, and this library docks an import twelve per cent on a model sold here new. A 272,978-kilometre car still made $37,015, which says the floor on a Spec-R is set by the drivetrain rather than the odometer. SOURCING: aggregator-surfaced results, unconfirmed against the auction house, the weakest evidence grade here.

A verified 1999 Spec R at Cecil Hills NSW made $52,000 on Collecting Cars on 20 August. The value here was carried at $48,000 before that lot closed, set from aggregator data whose latest print was $38,800 - so the first named result landed 8% above the carried figure and well above the aggregator's most recent number. The value has not been moved for it: one sale corroborates a level rather than re-setting one, and the car's kilometres and originality were not stated in the result.

Fourteen recorded Australian auction results averaging $49,739 across a $29,888 to $90,000 range, with the latest at $38,800. Those come from an aggregator rather than named auction houses, and they span the S15 range rather than the Spec R alone - the lesser Spec S is a cheaper car and pulls the average down, while the $90,000 top of the range is well above anything a standard Spec R has been shown to make. The latest result at $38,800 sits meaningfully below the value carried here. INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT, and almost none of it is this car: seven S15 lots appear worldwide and only ONE is a Spec R - US$33,600 at Broad Arrow in August 2025. Four are Varietta cars, the folding-hardtop convertible of which about 1,143 were built, and they are a cheap and slow-selling proposition: JPY992,200 and GBP7,728 when they sold, with three more failing at estimates between GBP10,000 and GBP15,000. One is an Autech Version at JPY5,500,000, a different and dearer car again. So the Spec R has exactly one international auction result in the entire record. No direction, clearance or dispersion is read from seven lots covering three variants.

Two of the counted sales name a four-speed automatic (Mornington July 2026 and Melbourne October 2021), one names a six-speed manual and one is a manual conversion. Across this library the fitted value runs about twelve per cent high on automatics and about six per cent low on manuals, so a value blended over both leans against whichever the buyer is actually looking at. With two results a side there is not enough to split the record: fitted separately these four produce a noisier estimate than the pool does, which is the same reason the Supra RZ is left pooled. Read this value as the automatic-inclusive average it is, and expect a stock manual Spec R to sit above it.