Nissan Pulsar priced at $1.35 million
Pulsar GTI-R owner asking exotic money on carsales for rare JDM hot hatchTake a quick look at the most expensive cars listed on carsales and you’ll see classic Ferraris and Aston Martins and modern Rolls-Royces priced at up to $2.3 million.
And then there’s this: a 1994 Nissan Pulsar GTI-R priced at $1.35 million, making it the third most expensive car out of almost 150,000 vehicles for sale on carsales at present.
How is this possible? Is it a joke? And will anyone actually pay this price for a Japanese hot hatch with little provenance and almost 100,000km on the clock?
Most un-thrashed Nissan Pulsar GTI-R models go for between $35,000 and $40,000, so the $1.35m price is unlikely to be a keyboard slip, where the $13,500 got a couple of extra zeros.
So how is this car worth $1,350,000? In short, it’s not. But the numberplates could be.
The Victorian-based seller is hoping the rare two-digit ‘81’ heritage number plates will pique the interest of well-heeled collectors, given the ‘26’ Victorian heritage plates that sold for $1.1m at auction in 2020, and the ‘911’ plates that went for half a million in 2018.
But wouldn’t it make sense to sell the plates and car separately?
The sales spiel for the car reads: “Don’t find them in this Condition. JDM Royalty. Loving stored at THE VALET CAR STORAGE thevalet.net”.
The seller says it is in “Mint condition” and has 97km on the clock (but the official advert states 98,000km on the odometer).
The Nissan Pulsar GTI-R was built between 1990 and 1994 to homologate the Japanese brand’s WRC rally tilt.
The JDM road car featured a development the Nissan GT-R’s ATTESA four-wheel drive system and a SR20DET turbo-petrol four-cylinder engine (that later went into the 200SX) worth 170kW.
It was never sold in Australia, only imported privately, but it was fast and could dispatch the 0-100km/h sprint in around 5.5 seconds.
While the plates are vastly more valuable than the AWD Nissan scorcher, it’s true that the used car market is hotter than it’s ever been right now.
This has been clear for all to see with prices of the Toyota LandCruiser 200 Series and Suzuki Jimny – to name just two cars in hot demand – going through the roof.
Let us know if you think the seller can find a buyer willing to part with over a million dollars for the Pulsar, and in the meantime check out the following table of the top five most expensive cars listed on carsales this month.
Top five most expensive cars on carsales (June 2021)
1. 1973 Ferrari Dino 246 GTS – $2,300,000
2. 1963 Aston Martin DB5 – $1,695,000
3. 1994 Nissan Pulsar GTI-R – $1,350,000
4. 2020 Rolls-Royce Phantom – $1,200,000
5. 2019 Ferrari 488 Pista Spider – $1,199,900
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