Hey Primers,
With all of the talk regarding NSX Values I thought it would be good to create the Unofficial Rare NSX thread.
“Ben” our local NSX Prime hero is the main catalyst for this as his post contained below highlighted some of the rare NSX’s to grace North America’s shores. I’ve gone a step further from his post and created the summary of rareness below. I’ve added Rarity by Color, Rarity by Number Produced, Rarity by Body Style and Rarity by Interior/Exterior Combination using the information provided in the WIKI.
Use the information as you wish but when someone says “What’s the rarest NSX’s out there for the U.S. market?” we can use this thread to show such. Some of the NSX’s are rare in not just one of these categories but perhaps two or three so don’t be surprised to see the same car listed in different categories (eg. Brooklands Green Automatic Coupe only 1 ever produced – it’s both a coupe and only one made in that year).
Secondly, I ask that owners of these cars post a quick reply as to the status of your car. It may help the collectability of NSX’s in the future.
Have a read below at the criteria I have chosen for each category:
Rarity by Exterior Color - is the total number of cars produced for a particular exterior color.
1. Monaco Blue Pearl (2000-2001) – 44 cars built
2. Imola Orange Pearl (2002-2005) – 49 cars built
3. Rio Yellow Pearl (2004-2005) – 53 cars built
4. Monte Carlo Blue Pearl (1997-1999) – 66 cars built
Rarity by Quantity Produced – highlights NSX’s made in limited quantities. These are the cars where only 1 was made in a given year, selected body style, transmission, or a selected color
1993:
Brooklands Green/Tan manual (factory one off color)
Berlina Black/Ivory automatic
Formula Red/Ivory automatic
1996:
Sebring Silver/Black manual NSX-T (factory one off build)
Brooklands Green/Black NSX-T manual
Berlina Black/Black manual coupe
Berlina Black/Tan automatic coupe
Grand Prix White/Tan automatic coupe
Brooklands Green/Black automatic coupe
1997:
Formula Red/Tan manual coupe
Monte Carlo Blue/Black manual coupe
Berlina Black/Tan automatic NSX-T
Grand Prix White/Black automatic NSX-T
1998:
Formula Red/Black manual coupe (Zanardi Prototype listed as Tan in American Honda Database)
Spa Yellow/Black manual coupe
Formula Red/Tan manual coupe
Sebring Silver/Onyx manual coupe
Formula Red/Black automatic NSX-T
Formula Red/Tan automatic NSX-T
Berlina Black/Tan automatic NSX-T
Monte Carlo Blue/Black automatic NSX-T
Monte Carlo Blue/Tan automatic NSX-T
1999:
Formula Red/Tan manual coupe
Spa Yellow/Black manual coupe
Sebring Silver/Onyx manual coupe
New Formula Red/Black automatic NSX-T
Berlina Black/Black automatic NSX-T
Grand Prix White/Tan manual NSX-T
2000:
Berlina Black/Black manual coupe
Monaco Blue Pearl/Black manual coupe
Sebring Silver/Onyx manual coupe
New Formula Red/Black automatic coupe
Berlina Black/Tan automatic NSX-T
2001:
Grand Prix White/Tan manual coupe
New Formula Red/Black automatic coupe
New Formula Red/Tan automatic NSX-T
Berlina Black/Tan automatic NSX-T
Grand Prix White/Tan manual NSX-T
Grand Prix White/Tan automatic NSX-T
Monaco Blue Pearl/Tan automatic NSX-T
2002:
Imola Orange Pearl/Onyx Black manual NSX-T
Imola Orange Pearl/Orange automatic NSX-T
New Formula Red/Tan automatic NSX-T
Berlina Black/Tan automatic NSX-T
Sebring Silver/Black automatic NSX-T
Sebring Silver/Silver automatic NSX-T
Grand Prix White/Tan automatic NSX-T
Spa Yellow/Black automatic NSX-T
Spa Yellow/Yellow automatic NSX-T
2003:
New Formula Red/Red manual NSX-T
Grand Prix White/Tan manual NSX-T
New Formula Red/Tan automatic NSX-T
Sebring Silver/Silver automatic NSX-T
Spa Yellow/Black automatic NSX-T
Long Beach Blue Pearl/Tan automatic NSX-T
2004:
New Formula Red/Red manual NSX-T
Grand Prix White/Black manual NSX-T
Grand Prix White/Tan manual NSX-T
Grand Prix White/White manual NSX-T
New Formula Red/Tan automatic NSX-T
Sebring Silver/Black automatic NSX-T
Grand Prix White/White automatic NSX-T
Rio Yellow/Yellow automatic NSX-T
Long Beach Blue Pearl/Black automatic NSX-T
Long Beach Blue Pearl/Blue automatic NSX-T
2005:
Grand Prix White/Tan manual NSX-T
Sebring Silver/Silver automatic NSX-T
Rio Yellow/Black automatic NSX-T
Rarity by Body Style - NSX’s that are coupes produced between 1997 and 2001 (Note: on the WIKI chart there are 1996 coupe cars noted). These cars are special because they have the 3.2L V6 and 6-speed manual in a coupe body where most cars for these years were Targa's.
1996 Berlina Black/Black manual coupe
1996 Berlina Black/Tan automatic coupe
1996 Grand Prix White/Tan automatic coupe
1996 Green/Black automatic coupe
1997 Formula Red/Tan manual coupe
1997 Monte Carlo Blue/Black manual coupe
1998 Formula Red/Tan manual coupe
1998 Spa Yellow/Black manual coupe
1998 Sebring Silver/Onyx manual coupe (x2)
1999 Alex Zanardi Edition NSX’s (one year only) – 51 cars built
1999 Sebring Silver/Onyx manual coupe
2000 Berlina Black/Black manual coupe
2000 Monaco Blue Pearl/Black manual coupe
2000 Sebring Silver/Onyx manual coupe
2000 New Formula Red/Black automatic coupe
2001 Grand Prix White/Tan manual coupe
2001 New Formula Red/Black automatic coupe
Rarity by Interior and Exterior Color Combinations – these are the cars where interior color is quite rare from the norm of what was sold for that particular exterior color. Perhaps only a few are produced for each color or year.
Spa Yellow/Tan (6 total):
1997 – 3 produced
1998 – 3 produced
Imola Orange Pearl/Onyx Black (8 total):
2002- 1 produced
2004 – 4 produced
2005 – 3 produced
New Formula Red/Red (8 total):
2002 – 3 produced
2003 – 1 produced
2004 – 1 produced
2005 – 3 produced
Sebring Silver/Ivory (9 total):
1991 – 9 produced
Grand Prix White/White (9 total):
2002 – 3 produced
2003 – 2 produced
2004 – 2 produced
2005 – 2 produced
Berlina Black/Red (13 total):
2002 – 3 produced
2003 – 2 produced
2004 – 6 produced
2005 – 2 produced
Rio Yellow/Yellow (14 total):
2004 – 8 produced
2005 – 6 produced
Monaco Blue/ Tan (20 total):
2000 – 15 produced
2001 – 5 produced
Long Beach Blue Pearl/Tan (21 total):
2002 – 5 produced
2003 – 7 produced
2004 – 6 produced
2005 – 3 produced
Monaco Blue/ Black (24 total):
2000 – 21 produced
2001 – 3 produced
Spa Yellow/Yellow (27 total):
2002 – 14 produced
2003 – 13 produced
Long Beach Blue Pearl/Blue (33 total):
2002 – 13 produced
2003 – 4 produced
2004 – 6 produced
2005 – 10 produced
Monte Carlo Blue/Tan (33 total):
1997 – 12 produced
1998 – 19 produced
1999 – 2 produced
Monte Carlo Blue/Black (33 total):
1997 – 19 produced
1998 – 6 produced
1999 – 8 produced
Long Beach Blue Pearl/Black (34 total):
2002 – 6 produced
2003 – 5 produced
2004 – 7 produced
2005 – 16 produced
Rio Yellow/Black (39 total):
2004 – 19 produced
2005 – 20 produced
Imola Orange Pearl/Orange (41 total):
2002 – 20 produced
2003 – 9 produced
2004 – 9 produced
2005 – 3 produced
Midnight Pearl/Black (43 total):
1995 – 30 produced
1996 – 13 produced
Midnight Pearl/Tan (44 total):
1995 – 24 produced
1996 – 20 produced
Brooklands Green/Black (50 total):
1994 – 34 produced
1995 – 12 produced
1996 – 4 produced
Grand Prix White/ Tan (66 total):
1994 – 8 produced
1996 – 29 produced
1997 – 7 produced
1998 – 7 produced
1999 – 1 produced
2000 – 4 produced
2001 – 3 produced
2002 – 4 produced
2003 – 1 produced
2004 – 1 produced
2005 – 1 produced
Ben's Original Post:
Paraphrased from one of my posts 3 years ago...
All numbers below are based on American Honda's released figures. It is known that American Honda will fudge data to deny the existence of factory one-offs, so one must bear that in mind when doing any sort of count. For example, in American Honda's database, the factory one-off 1993 Brooklands Green/Tan (which I've seen and verified with my own eyes) is listed as a Grand Prix White.
The rarest color for the US market is Monaco Blue Pearl (2000-2001), with 44 cars built.
2nd rarest US Market color is Imola Orange Pearl (2002-2005), with 49 cars built.
3rd rarest is Rio Yellow Pearl(2004-2005), with 53 cars built
4th is Monte Carlo Blue Pearl (1997-1999), with 66 cars built
If you decide to lump Monaco, Monte Carlo, and Long Beach Blues as just "Blue", and Spa and Rio Yellows as just "Yellow", then the rarest would be Imola Orange Pearl, with Midnight Pearl being 2nd.
The rarest would be one of the following, of which only 1 example of each are known to exist (There might be more, but these are the ones off the top of my head):
- 1993 Brooklands Green/Tan NSX Coupe Manual (Factory one-off built to show the color internally within American Honda to decide if it should be offered in the US for 1994)
- 1996 Sebring Silver/Black NSX-T Manual (Factory one-off built for a very wealthy executive who owns/owned multiple NSXs over the years)
- 1996 Brooklands Green/Black NSX-T Manual (The only Brooklands Green/Black NSX-T Manual)
- 1997 Monte Carlo Blue Pearl/Black NSX Coupe Manual (The only Monte Carlo Blue NSX Coupe)
- 1998 Formula Red/Black NSX Coupe Manual Zanardi "Prototype" Factory one-off (http://www.nsxprime.com/forums/showp...3&postcount=16)
American Honda's database lists it as a Formula Red/Tan Coupe
- 1998 Formula Red/Tan NSX Coupe Manual (The only 1997+ Formula Red/Tan Coupe)
- 2000 Monaco Blue Pearl/Black NSX Coupe Manual (The only Monaco Blue Coupe)
- 2000 New Formula Red/Black NSX Coupe Auto (The only New Formula Red Auto NSX Coupe)
- 2001 Grand Prix White/Tan NSX Coupe (The only Grand Prix White 1997+ Coupe)
- 2002 Imola Orange Pearl/Orange NSX-T Auto (The only Imola Orange Auto)
- 2004 Long Beach Blue Pearl/Black NSX-T Auto (The only Long Beach Blue/Onyx Auto)
Further narrowing it down, I would say the rarest of the rare would be:
- 2000 Monaco Blue Pearl/Black NSX Coupe Manual
Monaco Blue was produced in the fewest total numbers regardless of year/top/transmission/interior combination. This makes this particular 2000 Coupe the rarest member of an already rare subset of all NSXs. The rest of the above colors were produced in larger total numbers for other year/top/transmission/interior combintations)
If you decide to lump Monaco, Monte Carlo, and Long Beach Blues together as just "Blue", then the rarest becomes:
- 2002 Imola Orange Pearl/Orange NSX-T Auto
With all of the talk regarding NSX Values I thought it would be good to create the Unofficial Rare NSX thread.
“Ben” our local NSX Prime hero is the main catalyst for this as his post contained below highlighted some of the rare NSX’s to grace North America’s shores. I’ve gone a step further from his post and created the summary of rareness below. I’ve added Rarity by Color, Rarity by Number Produced, Rarity by Body Style and Rarity by Interior/Exterior Combination using the information provided in the WIKI.
Use the information as you wish but when someone says “What’s the rarest NSX’s out there for the U.S. market?” we can use this thread to show such. Some of the NSX’s are rare in not just one of these categories but perhaps two or three so don’t be surprised to see the same car listed in different categories (eg. Brooklands Green Automatic Coupe only 1 ever produced – it’s both a coupe and only one made in that year).
Secondly, I ask that owners of these cars post a quick reply as to the status of your car. It may help the collectability of NSX’s in the future.
Have a read below at the criteria I have chosen for each category:
Rarity by Exterior Color - is the total number of cars produced for a particular exterior color.
1. Monaco Blue Pearl (2000-2001) – 44 cars built
2. Imola Orange Pearl (2002-2005) – 49 cars built
3. Rio Yellow Pearl (2004-2005) – 53 cars built
4. Monte Carlo Blue Pearl (1997-1999) – 66 cars built
Rarity by Quantity Produced – highlights NSX’s made in limited quantities. These are the cars where only 1 was made in a given year, selected body style, transmission, or a selected color
1993:
Brooklands Green/Tan manual (factory one off color)
Berlina Black/Ivory automatic
Formula Red/Ivory automatic
1996:
Sebring Silver/Black manual NSX-T (factory one off build)
Brooklands Green/Black NSX-T manual
Berlina Black/Black manual coupe
Berlina Black/Tan automatic coupe
Grand Prix White/Tan automatic coupe
Brooklands Green/Black automatic coupe
1997:
Formula Red/Tan manual coupe
Monte Carlo Blue/Black manual coupe
Berlina Black/Tan automatic NSX-T
Grand Prix White/Black automatic NSX-T
1998:
Formula Red/Black manual coupe (Zanardi Prototype listed as Tan in American Honda Database)
Spa Yellow/Black manual coupe
Formula Red/Tan manual coupe
Sebring Silver/Onyx manual coupe
Formula Red/Black automatic NSX-T
Formula Red/Tan automatic NSX-T
Berlina Black/Tan automatic NSX-T
Monte Carlo Blue/Black automatic NSX-T
Monte Carlo Blue/Tan automatic NSX-T
1999:
Formula Red/Tan manual coupe
Spa Yellow/Black manual coupe
Sebring Silver/Onyx manual coupe
New Formula Red/Black automatic NSX-T
Berlina Black/Black automatic NSX-T
Grand Prix White/Tan manual NSX-T
2000:
Berlina Black/Black manual coupe
Monaco Blue Pearl/Black manual coupe
Sebring Silver/Onyx manual coupe
New Formula Red/Black automatic coupe
Berlina Black/Tan automatic NSX-T
2001:
Grand Prix White/Tan manual coupe
New Formula Red/Black automatic coupe
New Formula Red/Tan automatic NSX-T
Berlina Black/Tan automatic NSX-T
Grand Prix White/Tan manual NSX-T
Grand Prix White/Tan automatic NSX-T
Monaco Blue Pearl/Tan automatic NSX-T
2002:
Imola Orange Pearl/Onyx Black manual NSX-T
Imola Orange Pearl/Orange automatic NSX-T
New Formula Red/Tan automatic NSX-T
Berlina Black/Tan automatic NSX-T
Sebring Silver/Black automatic NSX-T
Sebring Silver/Silver automatic NSX-T
Grand Prix White/Tan automatic NSX-T
Spa Yellow/Black automatic NSX-T
Spa Yellow/Yellow automatic NSX-T
2003:
New Formula Red/Red manual NSX-T
Grand Prix White/Tan manual NSX-T
New Formula Red/Tan automatic NSX-T
Sebring Silver/Silver automatic NSX-T
Spa Yellow/Black automatic NSX-T
Long Beach Blue Pearl/Tan automatic NSX-T
2004:
New Formula Red/Red manual NSX-T
Grand Prix White/Black manual NSX-T
Grand Prix White/Tan manual NSX-T
Grand Prix White/White manual NSX-T
New Formula Red/Tan automatic NSX-T
Sebring Silver/Black automatic NSX-T
Grand Prix White/White automatic NSX-T
Rio Yellow/Yellow automatic NSX-T
Long Beach Blue Pearl/Black automatic NSX-T
Long Beach Blue Pearl/Blue automatic NSX-T
2005:
Grand Prix White/Tan manual NSX-T
Sebring Silver/Silver automatic NSX-T
Rio Yellow/Black automatic NSX-T
Rarity by Body Style - NSX’s that are coupes produced between 1997 and 2001 (Note: on the WIKI chart there are 1996 coupe cars noted). These cars are special because they have the 3.2L V6 and 6-speed manual in a coupe body where most cars for these years were Targa's.
1996 Berlina Black/Black manual coupe
1996 Berlina Black/Tan automatic coupe
1996 Grand Prix White/Tan automatic coupe
1996 Green/Black automatic coupe
1997 Formula Red/Tan manual coupe
1997 Monte Carlo Blue/Black manual coupe
1998 Formula Red/Tan manual coupe
1998 Spa Yellow/Black manual coupe
1998 Sebring Silver/Onyx manual coupe (x2)
1999 Alex Zanardi Edition NSX’s (one year only) – 51 cars built
1999 Sebring Silver/Onyx manual coupe
2000 Berlina Black/Black manual coupe
2000 Monaco Blue Pearl/Black manual coupe
2000 Sebring Silver/Onyx manual coupe
2000 New Formula Red/Black automatic coupe
2001 Grand Prix White/Tan manual coupe
2001 New Formula Red/Black automatic coupe
Rarity by Interior and Exterior Color Combinations – these are the cars where interior color is quite rare from the norm of what was sold for that particular exterior color. Perhaps only a few are produced for each color or year.
Spa Yellow/Tan (6 total):
1997 – 3 produced
1998 – 3 produced
Imola Orange Pearl/Onyx Black (8 total):
2002- 1 produced
2004 – 4 produced
2005 – 3 produced
New Formula Red/Red (8 total):
2002 – 3 produced
2003 – 1 produced
2004 – 1 produced
2005 – 3 produced
Sebring Silver/Ivory (9 total):
1991 – 9 produced
Grand Prix White/White (9 total):
2002 – 3 produced
2003 – 2 produced
2004 – 2 produced
2005 – 2 produced
Berlina Black/Red (13 total):
2002 – 3 produced
2003 – 2 produced
2004 – 6 produced
2005 – 2 produced
Rio Yellow/Yellow (14 total):
2004 – 8 produced
2005 – 6 produced
Monaco Blue/ Tan (20 total):
2000 – 15 produced
2001 – 5 produced
Long Beach Blue Pearl/Tan (21 total):
2002 – 5 produced
2003 – 7 produced
2004 – 6 produced
2005 – 3 produced
Monaco Blue/ Black (24 total):
2000 – 21 produced
2001 – 3 produced
Spa Yellow/Yellow (27 total):
2002 – 14 produced
2003 – 13 produced
Long Beach Blue Pearl/Blue (33 total):
2002 – 13 produced
2003 – 4 produced
2004 – 6 produced
2005 – 10 produced
Monte Carlo Blue/Tan (33 total):
1997 – 12 produced
1998 – 19 produced
1999 – 2 produced
Monte Carlo Blue/Black (33 total):
1997 – 19 produced
1998 – 6 produced
1999 – 8 produced
Long Beach Blue Pearl/Black (34 total):
2002 – 6 produced
2003 – 5 produced
2004 – 7 produced
2005 – 16 produced
Rio Yellow/Black (39 total):
2004 – 19 produced
2005 – 20 produced
Imola Orange Pearl/Orange (41 total):
2002 – 20 produced
2003 – 9 produced
2004 – 9 produced
2005 – 3 produced
Midnight Pearl/Black (43 total):
1995 – 30 produced
1996 – 13 produced
Midnight Pearl/Tan (44 total):
1995 – 24 produced
1996 – 20 produced
Brooklands Green/Black (50 total):
1994 – 34 produced
1995 – 12 produced
1996 – 4 produced
Grand Prix White/ Tan (66 total):
1994 – 8 produced
1996 – 29 produced
1997 – 7 produced
1998 – 7 produced
1999 – 1 produced
2000 – 4 produced
2001 – 3 produced
2002 – 4 produced
2003 – 1 produced
2004 – 1 produced
2005 – 1 produced
Ben's Original Post:
Paraphrased from one of my posts 3 years ago...
All numbers below are based on American Honda's released figures. It is known that American Honda will fudge data to deny the existence of factory one-offs, so one must bear that in mind when doing any sort of count. For example, in American Honda's database, the factory one-off 1993 Brooklands Green/Tan (which I've seen and verified with my own eyes) is listed as a Grand Prix White.
The rarest color for the US market is Monaco Blue Pearl (2000-2001), with 44 cars built.
2nd rarest US Market color is Imola Orange Pearl (2002-2005), with 49 cars built.
3rd rarest is Rio Yellow Pearl(2004-2005), with 53 cars built
4th is Monte Carlo Blue Pearl (1997-1999), with 66 cars built
If you decide to lump Monaco, Monte Carlo, and Long Beach Blues as just "Blue", and Spa and Rio Yellows as just "Yellow", then the rarest would be Imola Orange Pearl, with Midnight Pearl being 2nd.
The rarest would be one of the following, of which only 1 example of each are known to exist (There might be more, but these are the ones off the top of my head):
- 1993 Brooklands Green/Tan NSX Coupe Manual (Factory one-off built to show the color internally within American Honda to decide if it should be offered in the US for 1994)
- 1996 Sebring Silver/Black NSX-T Manual (Factory one-off built for a very wealthy executive who owns/owned multiple NSXs over the years)
- 1996 Brooklands Green/Black NSX-T Manual (The only Brooklands Green/Black NSX-T Manual)
- 1997 Monte Carlo Blue Pearl/Black NSX Coupe Manual (The only Monte Carlo Blue NSX Coupe)
- 1998 Formula Red/Black NSX Coupe Manual Zanardi "Prototype" Factory one-off (http://www.nsxprime.com/forums/showp...3&postcount=16)
American Honda's database lists it as a Formula Red/Tan Coupe
- 1998 Formula Red/Tan NSX Coupe Manual (The only 1997+ Formula Red/Tan Coupe)
- 2000 Monaco Blue Pearl/Black NSX Coupe Manual (The only Monaco Blue Coupe)
- 2000 New Formula Red/Black NSX Coupe Auto (The only New Formula Red Auto NSX Coupe)
- 2001 Grand Prix White/Tan NSX Coupe (The only Grand Prix White 1997+ Coupe)
- 2002 Imola Orange Pearl/Orange NSX-T Auto (The only Imola Orange Auto)
- 2004 Long Beach Blue Pearl/Black NSX-T Auto (The only Long Beach Blue/Onyx Auto)
Further narrowing it down, I would say the rarest of the rare would be:
- 2000 Monaco Blue Pearl/Black NSX Coupe Manual
Monaco Blue was produced in the fewest total numbers regardless of year/top/transmission/interior combination. This makes this particular 2000 Coupe the rarest member of an already rare subset of all NSXs. The rest of the above colors were produced in larger total numbers for other year/top/transmission/interior combintations)
If you decide to lump Monaco, Monte Carlo, and Long Beach Blues together as just "Blue", then the rarest becomes:
- 2002 Imola Orange Pearl/Orange NSX-T Auto
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