If there was any lingering doubt that the original Honda NSX was a classic (sold in the States as an Acura), this should dispel that notion. At Broad Arrow’s Concorso d’Eleganza Villa D’Este auction, someone paid €934,375 for this 2003 NSX-R. At today’s exchange rate, that’s $1,061,866. Sheesh.
A little history should help put this crazy number into context. The NSX-R was the lightest, most focused, most special version of the original NSX—and one of the rarest. Honda made the NSX-R in two batches, first from 1992 to 1995, then again from 2002 to 2005 following a facelift. The second was by far the rarer version, with Honda building fewer than 140 examples, all for the Japanese market, according to the Broad Arrow listing.
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This example is finished in the classic Championship White livery with color-matched BBS wheels and red interior trim. It has just 16,000 kilometers (9,942 miles) on the odometer, and naturally, it looks immaculate.
Data from classic-car value tracker Classic.com indicates that this was the first 2002-2005 NSX-R to come up for public sale in some time, and it went for far more than any recent 1992-1995 NSX-R auction. The next closest was a 1995 NSX-R Broad Arrow sold at its 2023 Monterey auction for $632,000, and even that was an outlier.
Astoundingly, this isn’t the most expensive NSX ever. The first example of the second-generation NSX and the first example of a 2022 NSX Type-S both sold for $1.1 million in charity auctions.
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