Think Drift Car Prices Have Gone Crazy? Wait Until You Hear What Just Sold At Auction For $204,204

There are two things you’ll frequently hear drifters complain about – drift tax and JDM tax.

Sometimes it’ll be both at once, and that’s when you’ve gotta start searching down the back of the bucket seat in the hope you’ll magically find a missing chunk of cash.

We’re living in an era where it’s normal to pay $31,000 for a decent-condition stock ’97 Nissan 240SX with 119,000 miles on the clock.

More interested in a Toyota Supra? Time to fork out up to $250,000. No, we’re not kidding!

Or, perhaps you’d prefer a Mazda RX-7 FD instead? Be prepared to pay over $1 million. Okay, that one’s a bit of a rare exception, but you get the idea.

So we’ve established that JDM drift cars are fetching bonkers prices, but (thankfully?) it turns out we’re not alone in this madness.

Things always get interesting at auctions when two potential buyers are desperate to own the same car.

That’s exactly what happened when an Acura popped up on Bring A Trailer this week, and the price shot past $200,000.

You’re probably thinking, “I bet it was that pristine NSX”, right?

Well, if you look at recent NSX listings on Bring a Trailer, you’ll discover this super-clean 32k-mile classic NSX sold for “just” $100,000. Even this 2022 NSX Type S went for under $200,000.

Based on those prices, it’ll likely blow your mind (it sure did ours) to discover that the $204,204 car in question is actually an, uhh… Integra.

You read that right. For the price of a small house (or condo, you get the idea), someone purchased a bone-stock, front-wheel-drive, 195-horsepower, 1.8-liter, 2001 Acura Integra Type R.

And no, it hasn’t been driven by your favorite cast member from The Fast & The Furious either.

Admittedly, it’s incredibly clean and has just 4,800 miles on the clock. It even features alloy wheels and a CD stereo, which (obviously) helps justify the price a little more!

The original purchase price, nearly 25 years ago, was just $24,930, which works out to a little shy of $45,500 in today’s prices when you factor in inflation. Still pretty worthwhile, if you ask me!

Interestingly, a near-identical DC2R sold for $112,112 (what’s with these weird figures?!) back in 2022, with just 7,000 miles. That means the already-crazy prices for these rare Type Rs have almost doubled in just three years.

Needless to say, prices for rare Japanese cars (even if they’re not truly JDM) are getting completely out of hand. If you have the cash to spare, it seems they’re clearly an incredible investment.

Unfortunately for us, we can’t resist the temptation to throw them sideways. Well, not Integras (of course) – but you know what I mean!

I’m still in a state of shock after seeing this, so I’m heading back to BaT to see what else I could potentially own for the same price as an Integra. I just can’t even…