The corpus documents the Mk4 R32's climb from a car that could not clear a $6,000 reserve at high mileage in 2016 to record results: $44,000 for an 8k-mile car in 2019 (then a record, publicly mocked at the time), $104,000 for the 97-mile car in Feb 2023, $85,000 for a 710-mile car in Nov 2023, and $76,000 for a 12k-mile one-owner car in May 2026. Commenters consistently attribute the premium to scarcity of unmodified low-mile survivors, while honest drivers with six-figure mileage transacted from about $10k-$25k in the same window. …
A steeply mileage-sensitive collector market
Volkswagen R32 (Mk4) · value-and-market