HONDA PRELUDE: BUYER'S GUIDE
Median Price: £10,712 • Highest Price: £66,551 • Lowest Price: £290 • Sell-Through Rate: 90%
Source: Bring A Trailer
How much is a Prelude worth?
In our experience, we've seen plenty of Prelude's go under the hammer and based on analysing every sale you can expect to pay £10,712 for one in average condition - that places it amongst the cheapest 20 - 30% of collector cars across our database.
As Honda's go, a Prelude is on the lower end relative to other Honda models. In fact this model is £6,391 below the median Honda price of £17,103.
What is the maximum to pay for a Prelude?
Across the 175 Prelude's we've seen sell, the highest price ever recorded for this model is £66,551. It was sold by Bring A Trailer in the US on 26 Jul 2023.
What is the lowest to pay for a Prelude?
The lowest sale of all time for this vehicle is £290, WB & Sons sold this car in the UK on 08 Mar 2025.
What is the background of the make / model?
Honda produced this model between 1981 and 2001.
Honda Motor Company was founded in 1948 by Soichiro Honda in Japan. Its first car, the T360 mini-truck, was launched in 1963. Honda became popular in the US in the 1970s with the Civic, followed by the Accord in the 1980s and the NSX in the 90s.
How common is a Prelude?
According to data from the DVLA, the UK licensing authority, in 2022 there were 864 licensed vehicles alive and kicking on UK roads. There were also 1,877 vehicles that are SORNd - in other words not currently registered for the road. Note: that data is for this model and all of its sub-models.
Building on that, we've also seen plenty of these go under the hammer at auctions around the world, 194 to be precise. It's among the 6% most common collector cars to sell at auction.
Of those 194 times the model has gone to auction 175 have sold. In other words, this model sells on 90% of times it goes to auction - that's above the average sell-through rate we traditionally see.
How does the Prelude compare to other cars?
We know from reviews of this model by our 42,000+ strong community how this car performs across multiple variables. Those variables stack up to give a TCVScore which is a relative score of how good a car is across 5 variables in comparison to all other cars.
For the Prelude, it scores a 52 out of 100 - that places it in the bottom 20 - 30% of all cars in our database.
How the car scores across all variables is below:
Styling: 4/10
Cool Factor: 5/10
Practicality: 7/10
Handling: 5/10
Speed: 5/10
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Why this article was created
Well, we've got one of the largest databases of sold classic car prices in the world so we thought we ought to help and put that data to good use. To be clear though, this article is not intended to be a full tour of every nook and sill of the Prelude, rather it's meant to act as an introductory guide and overview of the market for this model.
It is here to provide you guidance on how much you should and shouldn't be paying for one based on the 194 we've seen previously.
If you're after more detail, we've got you covered. Click the button below to be taken to a the price guide for this model so you can see every single sale, price trend over time and lots more.
How this article was created
This article was created by looking back at sales of Prelude since the beginning of our database in 1992. We've scanned over 30 auction houses and results from over £15 billion of sold cars around the world to understand the where the market is at for this car.
The Classic Valuer takes that data and analytics which enables it to generate these articles at scale, for further information regarding the Prelude please visit the price guide linked below.
About The Author
Giles Gunning
Giles is CEO of The Classic Valuer - one of the world's largest databases of sold classic cars in the world going back over 30 years covering over 11,000 models. Giles and The Classic Valuer are regularly referenced in key classic car publications including Classic & Sports Car.
Giles grew up around the iconic historic motorsport venue at Goodwood and enjoys his 1972 Alfa Romeo 1600 GT Junior around the Sussex roads. His primary car goal is to purchase back a selection of his grandfather's car's including his 1931 Riley Brooklands.
