Honda · 1990–2001
NSX (NA1)
Manual · RWD · Japan
AutoIndex value · good UK car
£85,000
Researched from UK sold prices and auction results. How we value cars
Estimated price by condition
Project
£51,000
Restoration candidate
Driver
£85,000
Good usable example
Concours
£127,500
Show standard
Indicative condition bands · not a valuation of a particular car
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At auction
Results we have recorded from the auction houses’ published results
RM Sotheby's, The London Auction 2026, lot 155 · 31 October 2026 · estimate £500,000–£800,000
Not like for like: Senna provenance.
£871,250
What the sale says about values · How results feed our values
Buyer’s notes
About the Honda NSX (NA1)
The NSX had the first all-aluminium monocoque in series production and a 3.0-litre VTEC V6 with titanium connecting rods. Ayrton Senna, testing an early prototype at Suzuka, judged it insufficiently rigid, and the shell was stiffened in response. The NA1 is the original car of 1990 to 1997, with pop-up headlights and a five-speed manual gearbox.
What moves the price
- Gearbox and body: manual coupés are the market, and F-Matic automatics and targas trade at a discount.
- Accident history: repairing aluminium demands specialist skills, so a car’s accident record is the main value question.
- Documentation and originality, on which this market’s preferences are long settled.
Before you buy, check
- Evidence of any accident damage, and of who repaired it.
- When the timing belt was last changed.
- On early-1990s cars, the gearbox serial number, which identifies the ranges with a documented snap-ring problem, and the window regulators.
From our research for Japan's Icons · The 90s JDM Era, which covers it in full.
Vehicle data
Specifications
1990–2001
Performance
Production
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RM Sotheby's London: £36.6 million, an F40 above estimate and a Barchetta nobody bought
56 of 64 lots sold, led by an £8.2 million Daytona SP3. Modern limited-run Ferraris and Porsches beat their estimates most clearly, Senna's NSX made ten times a normal one and the near-new 550 Barchetta did not sell.
8 min read
Honda NSX: NA1 or NA2, and what the Type R premium buys
A good early NSX is £85,000 and a 3.2-litre NA2 £110,000. The original Type R is £320,000. The step from NA1 to NA2 buys a better car to drive; the step to a Type R buys something else entirely.
5 min readHonda NSX (NA1): value questions answered
- How much is a Honda NSX (NA1) worth?
- A good, usable UK example of the Honda NSX (NA1) is worth around £85,000 on the AutoIndex index. A project car that needs restoration is nearer £51,000, and a concours-quality example around £127,500. Condition moves the price more than anything else.
- What makes one NSX (NA1) worth more than another?
- Service history and paperwork — complete, stamped, explained
- Mileage against the norm for the model
- Originality — matching numbers, original paint and trim
- Specification — gearbox, colour, factory options
- UK-supplied versus imported
- Is the NSX (NA1) I'm looking at fairly priced?
- Enter its asking price and condition in the price check above. It compares the price with the index for that condition and tells you what to ask the seller about.
- How many NSX (NA1) cars were built?
- Around 18,689 were built, by our production records.
- Is there a buyer's guide to the NSX (NA1)?
- Yes: Japan's Icons · The 90s JDM Era, a 39-page collector’s guide. You can read a complete dossier free before you buy it.
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