FYI- Your car has the interior of a 93. Tan panels, tach, and no airbag on the passenger side. Are you sure it is a 94?

 

93 climate controls. Hard to tell, but passenger airbag looks like 93 also.

 

 

Did USDM start at 200,000? So 201115 would make this is a very early USDM Car. Maybe made as early as January 1992.

 

I have plotted the data of price vs mileage from the FD Price Database spreadsheet available on that thread.

Data selected dates from January 2016 to recent. There has been much less volatility in the low mileage cars, as apposed to the cars in the 80,000 mile range. Interesting that there is less volatility again in the cars over 100,000 miles, perhaps suggesting that price is dependent on the degree of modification or restoration.

 

Here is the same data presented on a chronological basis starting from January 2016.

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Here is the above attachment in picture format>

 

93 speedometer and tach.

 

 

Somewhere on here someone has posted a copy of a service bulletin that list dozens of minor and major points a dealer might need to address. The earlier a car, the more of those items may not have been known and addressed. It is useful to find that list and check over your car. Some folk have found they have gone many years (i.e. forever) with simple issues not having been remedied.

It may be that some of these issues might not have had an remedy period expiry date, and you could surprise your local dealer with a request to fix.

 

It's most important that you represent the car correctly, honestly, and well. Subsequent to that, there are differences between 93/94+. The later cars tend to bring a premium for their improvements, depending on the buyers priorities.

 

YEP

Major difference and IMO the 94/95 cars are worth an easy 3 to 5k more at this time and that spread will only continue to get wider.

 

For what it's worth, I got an unsolicited offer of $40K for my FD over the weekend. Of course, it's not for sale as I've only had it a few weeks, but I believe the market for these cars (at least in Silicon Valley) is stronger than the sentiment in this thread indicates.

 

If you know you can pick one up for $25-30k on this forum, or elsewhere, letting yours go for $40k seems like a smart opportunity...unless of course you have more than $15k invested in mods.

 

If it has under 30k miles that makes sense to me.

 

You're right. But, for some reason this forum shorts it's own market hard...forever. Some kid in Los Gatos almost form-tackled my car one day (while I was driving) to talk to me about it.

You guys are like goldfish! He's the fellow who bought the silver r2.
Collector Grade 1994 Mazda RX7 R2 For Sale | Supercar Report

 

I'm 100 percent goldfish LOL

At this point it's abundantly clear that his 42.5k price tag was in line or why else would a random stranger come up to him and offer him 40k

I don't think this forum sells this car short at all. Gordon and I along with several others have been saying for years that the FD would become a valuable collector. The one thing I do and will always do is keep it real. There are 5 to 10 low mileage FDs currently listed for sale at over 30k and they've all been for sale for months and none have sold. I'm guessing the sellers all paid at most 30k and are hoping to make 10 or 15k plus because they understand they have the upper hand at this time. How long will this strong market last is anyone's guess? I suspect before prices go higher they'll go lower but that's just my instinct and I was dead wrong about the economy/stock market so I may be dead wrong about this market as well.

I should be listening to Gordon who said the prices will be 50k to 70k but I just have to go with my own gut which at this time is saying 40k is the top. I think we are currently living in one of the biggest economic bubbles of the last 50 years but it may have plenty of room to grow before bursting. Only time will tell. The good news is I own several FDs so if the market goes higher I'll let some go if it goes lower I'll keep them, or win, win

 

 

That was my old car I had sold to a soldier in FL. He sold it for a CYM. Someone recently listed my old SSM R2 for $35k and he is a forum member but cant recall his name. The SSM R2s, CWs and CYMs seem to be the hot ticket these days.