- A 1991 Honda CRX sport compact being sold out of New Brunswick could be the most expensive one auctioned
- The car, sold new in France, has just 1,500 km on its odometer and looks to be in nearly mint condition
- The auction record for the model currently sits at US$41,277, set just this past August
A 1991 Honda CRX being sold out of New Brunswick may be on its way to becoming the most expensive example of the model ever auctioned, if it can top the record price of US$41,277 (CDN$57,000) set by a similar one in late August 2024. That latter car was a one-owner wonder with a scant 23,000 miles (37,000 km) on its odometer—but this New Brunswick Honda has that low mileage beat, having passed just 1,500 km of pavement under its tires its whole 33-year life.
The ’91 going for the record title is counting down the hours remaining in its multi-day auction on popular online classic-car auction site Bring A Trailer (BaT); as of publication, there are four days left to go, and bidding has already reached $25,678. If that number sounds high for an early-’90s Honda sport-compact with a 1.6-litre four-cylinder, you haven’t been watching the market on these.
Heck, one even nailed US$40,000 on Bring A Trailer some two-and-a-half years ago, and classic-car evaluator Hagerty says the values on pristine-condition “#1” examples of CRXes took a steep US$10,000 climb this past summer, to US$46,500 for the very best of the best.
We wouldn’t be surprised if this Celestial Blue Pearl CRX landed somewhere around that mark a half-week from now. The Honda was sold new in France, a gift for the original buyer’s daughter even though she couldn’t drive (that explains the low mileage). After some 28 years of storage, it was picked up by an enthusiast who flipped it to the current N.B.-based seller in September 2022, and then imported to Canada this March.
We’ll be frank, as the ad is: the car is not perfect, with a handful of blemishes on the bodywork and some damage to a bumper moulding. Oh, and it comes with a New Brunswick registration, but no title. If you can put those things aside, you’re looking at one of the most desirable 150-hp little VTEC Hondas this side of that Portuguese ’90 CRX which was somehow just 10 miles old.
The Maritimes-based seller, known as CRX488gtb on BaT, has listed four other pristine-looking early ’90s Honda CRXes on the website before, with a 46,000-km example netting a US$37,000 (CDN$51,000) sale price—seems like they might be fanatical about the model. If this blue car does indeed set the auction record for the model, we’re sure they’d figure that quite the feather in their cap.
Meanwhile, if you’ve got the itch for a CRX but still can’t see yourself shelling out brand-new Honda Pilot money for a 33-year-old compact, daily-driver-condition copies are much more reasonably landing in the US$13,000 to US$15,000 range (CDN$18,000 to CDN$20,700) at the moment.
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