Sales Price Averages for German Supras 1997-2000

In this survey all issues (ca. 240) of Germany’s leading automotive magazine “Auto Motor und Sport” from mid 1997-2004 have been analyzed. The aim was to establish sales price data averages for Supra MKIVs, in order to disprove the ever existing claim that solely the movie “The Fast and the Furious” from 2001 drove Supra prices to high levels above what you would normally expect on a used car.

As a result we can present to you 178 data sets (= individual sales ads from the years 1997-2003), which should give a good overview about the average asking prices from this era. All sales ads are listed in the table below, i.e. you can browse through them by yourself. We even listed the approximate location according to the phone number given in the ad, so anyone driving a German-delivered Supra can search for historical ads of his very own car as long as you know the car’s location in this period.
On ads with a picture, the whole sales ad has been linked.

Evlauation

For the evaluation all prices have been converted from Deutsche Mark to Euro according to the official conversion rate of 1,95583. The overall situation is shown in the image below.

For the pure sales price the following tendency can be shown

If you place a regression line in to the historical distribution, an average price of 31.000 EUR can be shown for mid 1997. In the beginning of 2000 the average price dropped to 20.000 EUR. The average fall in price was 12% per year.
Effects due to mileage and type of transmission have been neglected in this survey, but can be filtered and evaluated by the reader in the database below.

Furthermore the sales prices have been corrected using the inflation rate (Germany) from the year in question all the way to 2019 in order to compare them to the current average Supra MKIV prices.

The following picture can be viewed after using the inflation rate: Average sales price mid of 1997: ca. 42.000 EUR, average sales price beginning of 2000: ca. 30.000 EUR. Sales price drop per year: 12.5%

The following inflation rates have been used:

Downside to this methodolody: We are only using sales ads from one particular magazine. Especially beginning in 2000 the internet was on a rise, leading to more and more people preferring internet ads over expensive print magazine ads. As a result, only little ads have been published after 2000, making it complicated to show the average prices all the way to 2001. Naturally, the prices shown are asking prices only, the actual going prices are unknown.

Nonetheless, it can be said that prices of less than 15.000 EUR should be pretty nontypical for the years 2000 and 2001. Prices of less than 10.000 EUR are very unrealistic.

The Fast and the Furious didn’t create an inflation of Supra MKIV prices. MKIV Supra prices were already pretty high before the movie was released.