Nissan Silvia (S15)
Reference — shown, never scored
Why 7.2: The best chassis drifting ever standardized on, now aging out of grassroots budgets. The clean survivors go collector; the rest still live sideways — the AE86 story, twenty years later.
Market value
Median asking price, good condition · $15k (2005) → $55k (2026), trending up · illustrative data
The long version
The 25-year import window turned into a straightforward arbitrage trade for a while — buy clean in Japan or Australia, ship, flip stateside for a multiple, repeat — and the badges here reflect how many S15s never saw a US driveway before changing hands again. The ones that escaped that cycle mostly went where the chassis was always meant to go: grassroots drift events, sideways and consumable. Values have climbed enough now that even the drift cars are getting babied a little, its own kind of ending for a car built to be worn out.