So just what price will an NSX be in 5 years?

With every magazine/website proclaiming the NSX to be a "great investment, sure to go up in value" the one answer that never seems to be given is what "go up in value" means quantitatively. For example, what price will a pristine 1991 go for 10 years from now? How about a 2005? I figured I would make a little table and populate it from Haggerty. I just pulled a few benchmark years, but if it seems a lively topic maybe I will go in and refill a few more. Values are for manual transmission only.

I wonder how high mileage coupes and 02 converted coupes will fare...

stuntman said:

I wonder how high mileage coupes and 02 converted coupes will fare...

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I suspect the rising price of more collectible models will set a baseline price for "any NSX". I guesstimate that number to be between $40-50k

Added some numbers and percentage changes. Purely just my opinion.

stuntman said:

I wonder how high mileage coupes and 02 converted coupes will fare...

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Seriously, it's just my observation over the past couple years that these have been selling from about 10 to 20% less than the average. I could be wrong about future prices of these though.

stuntman said:

I wonder how high mileage coupes and 02 converted coupes will fare...

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I think the high mileage coupes will hold reasonable value with reasonable discounts for mileage.
And as with other collectible cars we'll start to see restored engines, transmissions etc helping to offset the high mileage.

On the other hand the 02 conversions I suspect will sell at a discount as they are neither fish nor fowl.
An expensive modification to start with and then a discount to boot.

IIRC, i've seen a couple early coupes with 02 conversions going for more (between early coupes and real 02s) due to the demand for the stiffer coupe chassis with the updated looks....

Turbo cars seem to be a hit or miss, some not fetching much money (and aren't built that well) while others do go for a lot, but a lot more $ went into them and the execution is much better. I guess a lot depends on the quality of work and the demand.

JD Cross said:

On the other hand the 02 conversions I suspect will sell at a discount as they are neither fish nor fowl.
An expensive modification to start with and then a discount to boot.

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Agree, watching Chasing Classic Cars I've seen Wayne C. run across cars that were upgraded with other parts to look like a newer or more popular model. In most cases he won't even make an offer on the cars. He's said it many times and its a absolute truth in the collector market"...a car is only original once." And the more original the better. That said if a car was damaged or in very bad condition to begin with then putting it back together with whatever parts, that look good and have some quality can't help but add more value.

Ironically I think the cars that may appreciate less than expected are the 2003 and 2004 non-pop-up years (the last production year 05 being an exception). They lack the iconic and timeless looks that will probably be what folks wanting an NSX as a collectible are after.

Aaaahh!!!! No more NSX inflation! Wait till I get mine, guys, okay

... and then you have the NA2 coupes, Zanardi, Imola, and GPW!

On another note, I just sold my 91 with low miles in between condition 1-2 too!

bullithollywood said:

Agree, watching Chasing Classic Cars I've seen Wayne C. run across cars that were upgraded with other parts to look like a newer or more popular model. In most cases he won't even make an offer on the cars. He's said it many times and its a absolute truth in the collector market"...a car is only original once." And the more original the better. That said if a car was damaged or in very bad condition to begin with then putting it back together with whatever parts, that look good and have some quality can't help but add more value.

Ironically I think the cars that may appreciate less than expected are the 2003 and 2004 non-pop-up years (the last production year 05 being an exception). They lack the iconic and timeless looks that will probably be what folks wanting an NSX as a collectible are after.

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Right, and I suppose 02s will be so worthless that you'll be able to pick one up for little or nothing? Smoke another one.

Calm down, King. Obviously you own an 03 or an 04. Hollywood said "less than expected". I think he meant less than expected by current owners. I also think he's right. I expect the bug-eye NSX's to command more than anything up through 96 with similar mileage and condition, thanks to the extra gear, larger displacement, vastly improved ABS, and other tweaks (91s being a possible outlier). But I don't see them quite hanging with 97-01 models (again, with the SAME mileage). Even so, unless the entire market collapses, I doubt they will be anywhere close to worthless and if you can pick one up for little or nothing I will grab several. The differences we are talking about won't be as great as between, say, black/red and cars of the same year/mileage/condition in a rare color.

Probably the biggest challenge with the 02-05 market is that it has less room to grow than the 91-94 market. I think there is a ceiling price for a NSX because it doesn't have a little prancing pony on the front of it. I think that is simply reality. So when you are at a starting point of $70k vs a starting point of $40k, there is an advantage to the early models. As you can see with my numbers, a Condition 2 1991 will see over 100% growth whereas a Condition 2 2005 will only hit 50% even though the 2005 is coming in at a higher number. I think that dealerships will be cognizant of this and start snatching up pristine early model cars (if they haven't already).

Yup, I have a 2003. I bought it to drive, not too worried about how much I'll make if I sell it. Don't plan on doing that any time soon.

The King said:

Yup, I have a 2003. I bought it to drive, not too worried about how much I'll make if I sell it. Don't plan on doing that any time soon.

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Totally agree with you! I bought a canadian 1991 silver with 88k km (56k miles) about a month ago. I really enjoy the car and drive it nearly everyday... I bought it not to look at it but to have fun with it. It's pretty sad having such a piece of engineering and not exploit it because of supposed speculation. Theses car were built to put mileage on it. If the value rise, fine. If you bought that car for that reason I think your missing the point about owning an NSX.

blue_myriddn said:

With every magazine/website proclaiming the NSX to be a "great investment, sure to go up in value" the one answer that never seems to be given is what "go up in value" means quantitatively. For example, what price will a pristine 1991 go for 10 years from now? How about a 2005? I figured I would make a little table and populate it from Haggerty. I just pulled a few benchmark years, but if it seems a lively topic maybe I will go in and refill a few more. Values are for manual transmission only.

Condition	1	2	3	4
1991 (now)	$60	$42.4	$33.1	$24.5
1991 (5yrs)	$85 (42%)	$65 (53%)	$40 (21%)	$30 (22%)
1991 (10 yrs)	$115 (92%)	$95 (124%)	$50 (51%)	$40 (63%)
1995 (now)	$66.8	$50.8	$44.5	$33.5
1995 (5yrs)	$68 (2%)	$62 (22%)	$46 (3%)	$42 (25%)
1995 (10 yrs)	$85 (27%)	$68 (34%)	$50 (12%)	$40 (19%)
2001 (now)	$74.8	$63.6	$53.9	$47.3
2001 (5 yrs)	$95 (27%)	$80 (26%)	$58 (8%)	$48 (1%)
2001 (10 yrs)	$110 (47%)	$85 (34%)	$62 (15%)	$58 (23%)
2005 (now)	$84.8	$73.5	$64.6	$61
2005 (5 yrs)	$125 (47%)	$100 (36%)	$80 (24%)	$70 (15%)
2005 (10 yrs)	$150 (77%)	$110 (50%)	$90 (39%)	$72 (18%)

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Awesome post - thats it am not letting my 91 go anytime soon

Right now a 1995 NSX is twice as old as 2005 but 50 years from now all of these cars are going to be around 60-70 years old so there may be less difference between them all.

Brylek said:

Right now a 1995 NSX is twice as old as 2005 but 50 years from now all of these cars are going to be around 60-70 years old so there may be less difference between them all.

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50 years from now I am going to be too busy chasing around nurses in short skirts with my walker to care about how much a NSX is worth.

blue_myriddn said:

50 years from now I am going to be too busy chasing around nurses in short skirts with my walker to care about how much a NSX is worth.

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Not that I'm saying anything bad about the female psyche, but it's possible that then, like now, the quality of nurse may be helped by the greenness of your pocket, and NSX values may be of interest to you after all in 2065.

blue_myriddn, Regarding the original post: What did you base the future values on?

tof said:

blue_myriddn, Regarding the original post: What did you base the future values on?

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Nothing other than my own opinion. I would encourage others to chime in with their opinion.

OK. Thanks. Looking at it again, at least on the 91, I don't think you are crazy. Assuming the collector car market doesn't collapse.

Hagerty has new values out so I thought it might be fun to return to this topic and see how things are making out. I just recreated my table leaving the original numbers in and added a new row for where the numbers are now (about a year and a half from when I first made the post)



Looks like my numbers were pretty solid as there has been growth, but not a huge spike in prices yet. I am a little surprised by Condition 2 1991s and I think that Haggerty may be a bit off there, perhaps there just aren't that many trading hands yet. I also seem to have notably underestimated 1995s (don't we all?). Overall though, I think my numbers look to be pretty well on track for 5-10 year predictions.


Interested if people have thoughts/adjustments, etc. Easiest thing is to just quote this post and edit the table rather than making a new one. Unless you don't mind tedious things.

Winner winner chicken dinner! Nice work on the table and while not crazy spikes those are still solid increases. I suppose NSX people are just more rational than those nutty air cooled P-car people. I know I am glad I got my car when I did because the price to play now is too much for me.

So I had broke this thread earlier, but Lud was kind enough to restore it. So if you missed it before, here it is again

Will be interesting if there is a bump once more of the 2017 NSXs get out and about.