The Zero-Owner Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX Just Sold For Nearly $138,000
The 2006 Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX we told you about last week with just nine miles on the clock has just sold for a totally ridiculous figure.
Having smashed through the $100,000 mark last week, bidding ended at – brace yourself – $137,954. Imagine the final value fees on that! Evidently demand for this particular car, seen for some reason to be a collector’s item despite not being a limited edition model, far outstrips what we would have expected.
As we explained last week, the reason for its price tag isn’t just down to mileage. This is a zero-owner car. When the dealer, South Coast Mitsubishi in California, ordered the car it simply kept it in its warehouse and let the Evo line die out. There were mutterings at the time that the IX would be the last fast Lancer, so it would have made sense as an investment. It has never been registered, driven on the road or given number plates.
No one could have realistically predicted how high values for an unregistered Evo IX would climb. An unregistered, brand new Evo X that actually has provenance in the winding-up of the Evo legend, being #0001 of 1600 run-out Final Edition specials, is listed with a New York seller for around $50,000 less. Surely that’s the better investment? We’ll leave you to digest the astronomical price tag and vent your feelings below.
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Wow what a dream car for some lucky buyer.
So the new theory of evolution is to let some specimens dormant until the opportunity for big monies manifests ?
I wonder if any dealerships are secretly hiding any Civics in a magic warehouse…
it would be the same price as a new one
In reality probably worth 10 grand max
You can just have this (ooooh i smell rivalry)
You could have quite a few of those
Now all dealerships are going to do the same thing, someday, someone will buy a 2006 Ford Focus RS 300K then he will realise he bought a Ford Focus RS for the price of a supercar
Turns out it was a rebadged beat up evo 8 with the odometer rigged…
*Random dealership “Yo, let’s save 2 or 3 performance cars and sell them 10 years later, cuz delayed profit, m9!”
There was a 1993 Ford Mustang Cobra R in my area still with original plastic wrap on the interior and 10 miles it fetched right around $100,000.
Maybe Elon Musk is hiding all his promised cars that “haven’t been made yet” in a magic warehouse like this one…
Probably hiding them next to where he keeps phrases such as “I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I had to guess at what our biggest existential threat is, it’s probably that. So we need to be very careful.” While making autonomous (probably on their way to AI) vehicles.
Vehicles that do nothing for anyone. Ever. No where.
Jesus