A Barely-Used Acura Integra Type R Just Fetched $64k At Auction
Not so long ago, we found ourselves taking a closer look at the legendary DC2-generation Honda Integra Type R. All these years on it’s still sensational to drive, and although prices have been on the rise, it is still possible to snag a tidy one for a relatively reasonable £10,000.
But what if you want a really tidy example? Perhaps one that’s barely been used? In that case, you’ll need to bring a little more than £10k to the table. At least, going by the Acura-branded ‘ITR’ that was auctioned in Las Vegas at the weekend, that seems to be the case. Because it went for an astonishing $63,800, or about £49,000 based on current exchange rates. Jaw, meet floor.
Admittedly, it’s a very fine example of the breed. The 1997-registered Integra has covered just 1191 miles in its time on Earth, equating to around 56 miles a year. Quite how you can own one of these and resist the temptation to drive it, we’re not sure. But it’s paid off for the car’s one and only former owner.
Included in the Barrett Jackson sale was all of the Type R’s original purchase documents, various “promotional items,” and unopened spare key set, and - the part that will have really whet the appetite of collectors - the original owners manuals in a leather Acura binder, complete with an air pressure gauge and a torch.
It’ll almost certainly be hidden away in a private collection somewhere, never to turn a wheel in anger again. Which, given what these cars are like to drive, seems a bit of a shame.
Source: Barrett Jackson via Jalopnik
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Eurobeat plays
sees price
Eurobeat stops playing
record scratch
THATS THE PRICE?!
Explains why they keep talking about money in eurobeat
Surely that price can’t be Acura-t
My jaw is Honda floor.
What an integragent pun!
That really got me in De Sol
Hmm let’s see, a lightly used Honda NSX or a dealer new Integra……
NSX seems better tbh.
A brand new Mustang and 10k or a slightly used Honda?
My Jaw dropped faster than the engines that were dropped out of this legendary car.
I don’t understand this nincompoop mentality of jacking up prices of a “pretty” normal car to this extent..
Like what’s the point of a car if you’re gonna try not to drive it jack up prices…
Rather buy shares or gold and let cars be what they’re meant to be…
SMH
The cost of nostalgia..
Its people who know what will be worth something later and know how to make cars appreiciate…also they only sold about 3800 of those in america so they are already expensive to begin with
You think this is too much to ask? No, it isn’t. No company makes simple, lightweight, manual coupes anymore. Honda/Acura included. They’ve lost their roots.
Yeah, damn that complex, heavy, auto MX-5
Damn those luxo barge Lotus Evoras
Damn them all: Lotus Elan
And people call me crazy when I get excited about old cars from the 90s-00s….
It’s like being into 60s-70s cars in the late 80s.
You wait and see…
“An Acura-branded version of the Honda legend”
Didn’t think this title through now, did ya…
I watched this live and I was almost in tears I was laughing so hard. Somebody was gonna wake up the next day and realize they almost spent 65k on a stock integra
Well in america there are only like 1000 of these cars left…also not stock unless this was a really good fake type r
NO! It’s $58k. The other $5800 is auction fees. So many people get this wrong.
In the end. You’re STILL paying 63k for the car