I've always been curious. With the rising prices of these vehicles, the price of auction vehicles from CoPart for these specific cars remain in the few thousand dollar range.

Sure, some of them might need some work here and there and may not carry a full clean title. But I think if you can buy an Evo for say $3,000 surely there is room for profit there. Parts alone off some of these cars will make up the auction price it seems like. Or maybe there's something I'm missing blatantly here that others are catching onto?

 

Copart mostly deals with insurance sales who don't know what an evo is or how special they are to a car community, they just see it as a four door sports sedan and therefor goes by book value (we know the 8/9 is already selling way above in most cases) and takes years to catch up with market asking prices. The evo isn't exclusive to this. You can get mk4 supra for dirt cheap aswel as many other cars on copart..they do sell very quickly however as people know there wont be a never ending supply and they're practically giving cars away.

Also the evo 8/9 is probably the most crashed sports car in Japanese car history. I would love to know how many are left. It seems like every week copart is adding one to their registry and its smashed to bits, for a 15+ year old car with low production this cant mean there are many clean examples left. The evo x is really a different animal. Much more pedestrian and optimized for daily driving, also production was waaaay higher (not even being made in japan). I dont see prices rising for those for a very long time if ever.

 

Wrong. Every single Evolution has been built in Japan. 1-9 built in Okazaki. Some 9's and all 10's built in Kurashiki.

The Evo 10 has 96% Japanese components, and that is because the SST is getrag.

Evo 8-9 has 100% Japanese components.

 

^ You are correct, I guess what I meant to say was the evo x was not fully Japanese but was assembled in japan.

 

Because of the SST Transmission, Bilstein struts and BBS wheels in the MR.

The Evo 9 MR is also not 100% Japanese because of the Bilstein struts and BBS wheels.

 

This is also incorrect. You seem to post a good amount of misinformation lately.

2003-2006 Evo 8-9 USDM = approx 21,000
Approx 15,500 GSR/SE, 900 RS, 4600 MR

2008, 2010-2015 Evo 10 USDM = approx 22,000
Approx 15,000 GSR, 340 SE, 1,600 FE and 4,700 MR Evo 10's.

 

^ That cannot be possible, more countries got the evo x, for example Canada received the evo for the first time, we never got the ct9a, automatically making production higher for North America alone. When it comes to production you have to include Canada since we turn to the usdm market for evo 8/9s. We have plenty of evo x here.

 

Since the OP is in the USA, I compared USDM vs USDM. It's numbers. You can't argue with it.

 

It changes the answer to op's question. So for north America the 8/9 would remain at 21000 as you stated and the evo x would be closer to 30000, which lowers demand from Canadian consumers and affects auction prices. Bottom line is production is way higher. That is not misinformation.

 

Now you are just literally making numbers up based on a whim. Happy to discuss logically if you can find Canadian sales/production numbers for the Evo X. All I've found so far is that there where only 350 FE's sold in Canada.

Don't forget to include Mexico, PR, etc.

Either way, comparing USDM to USDM, CT9A vs CZ4A numbers are basically identical.

 

OP asked about Copart, which includes cars from all over the world where they operate, including Canada. So why only compare usdm to usdm only? I will admit when im wrong but common sense tells me Canada must have evo x's in the thousands, no I dont know the exact number..enough hijacking this thread though. I will admit to being wrong about everything if that's what it takes to satisfy your ego.

 

Lol, now you are talking world wide? Going to assume CT9A is higher than CZ4A then as CT9A spans Evo 7 - Evo 9 if we are opening it up world wide., but as I stated, that is just a whim and assumption.

I'm not trying to be an *** here. I was just bringing a more logical discussion into the thread. I was also a bit triggered by your "CT9A's aRe ThE bEsT EvOs" statement. Having owned both and tuned and supported thousands of Evos, I highly disagree with that type of thinking.

 

Sorry Razorlab but CT9A holds most/all the track records and 1/4 mile records across all evolutions far as I know. That's really all that needs to be said

 

I suggest rereading my statement.

 

I did and that was why I was trying to illicit another triggered response