Mazda RX-7 FD3S for Sale in Japan: Prices & How to Buy One (2026)

A Mazda RX-7 FD3S costs a median of ¥6,734,000 (about $42,100) at Japanese dealer retail. That is the middle of 58 priced FDs in our full census of Goo-net retail listings on 21 October 2026, which ran from ¥4,080,000 to ¥12,800,000. It is the asking price in Japan before shipping and import costs, and it is the ceiling of the market, not the floor. The import rules below were read on the official US and Canadian pages on 30 October 2026.

If you have spent an evening scrolling FD adverts, you know the two things that make it hard: a quarter of the interesting cars say “price on request”, and nobody tells you what it costs to get one out of Japan. This guide covers both.

How much is an FD3S RX-7 in Japan right now?

We counted every FD3S listing on Goo-net’s FD3S type-code page, not just page one. 75 cars were for sale. 58 showed a body price. The other 17 were price on request, so they are not in the numbers. Here is how the 58 spread out.

Dollar figures use ¥160 to the dollar. Two out of every five priced FDs sit in the ¥6M band, and the middle half of the market runs from ¥5.99M to ¥7.39M. The listed years run from 1992 to 2003. On 5 October 2026 our separate count found 63 priced FDs at a ¥6,630,000 median, so the retail level has held steady through the month. The month-by-month figures, next to the Supra, GT-R and the rest, are on our iconic JDM car prices page.

What sits below the retail price?

Retail is a dealer’s price: a car bought at auction or trade-in, reconditioned, given a warranty you cannot use from abroad, and marked up. Most FDs in Japan change hands somewhere underneath that.

We do not put a figure on “below retail”, because it depends on the car in front of us that week. What we can promise is that you see one total before you commit.

What should you know about a rotary FD before you buy?

The FD3S runs Mazda’s 13B-REW, a twin-rotor rotary with a sequential twin-turbo system: one turbo works low in the rev range and the second joins higher up. It was a complex system when new. A few points are known across the FD world, and the census shows them in the adverts themselves.

• Compression and apex seals. A rotary’s health is read as compression per rotor face, and worn apex seals show up as low or uneven readings. Japanese sellers sometimes print the numbers in the title. Two cars in our census do: one lists front 8.4 / 8.7 / 8.5 and rear 8.9 / 8.8 / 8.8, another front 840 / 760 / 770 and rear 840 / 830 / 860. 5 of the 58 priced titles mention a compression test, and 10 mention an engine overhaul or a rebuilt engine.
• Sequential twin-turbo or single. The original system relies on a lot of vacuum hoses and solenoids, and many FDs have been converted. 5 priced titles mention a single-turbo setup such as a T04Z, and the most expensive car, at ¥12.8M, says its sequential twins were changed to run as permanent twins. Neither is wrong. Know which one you are buying and whether it was done properly.
• Body and history. These cars are 24 to 35 years old. Rust and old accident repairs are worth checking under any FD, and a drift-used car will also carry clip damage in the rear quarters and bumper areas. Mismatched paint and hacked-in wiring for an aftermarket ECU are the usual tells.

You cannot judge any of this from listing photos, and you do not have to fly over to do it. We inspect the car locally in Japan and send you a video and photo walk-through: the underside, the frame rails, the engine bay and a cold start. If the seller or the auction house provides a compression reading, we film or photograph it too. You decide after you have seen it. If the car is at auction, our guide to reading a Japanese auction sheet explains the grades you will see on the sheet.

Many retail FDs carry an A’PEXi Power FC in the listing. If you are pricing one separately, our used Power FC guide found a median of ¥57,300 across 20 used FD3S 13B-REW units on Yahoo! Auctions Japan (checked 9 October 2026). For new bodywork, ORIGIN Labo. makes FD fenders and wings; see the ORIGIN Labo. FD3S range.

Can you import an FD3S to the US or Canada?

United States. CBP’s importing page, read on 30 October 2026, says that as a general rule motor vehicles less than 25 years old must comply with all US safety standards. The age runs from when the car was built, and Mazda built the FD3S from October 1991 to August 2002. As of 30 October 2026, cars built up to October 2001 are old enough; the very last FDs get there in August 2027. In our census, 52 of the 58 priced cars carry a listed year of 2001 or earlier, but a late-2001 car may still be a few weeks short, so the build plate on that specific car is what counts. The EPA side is separate: EPA’s page says its provision for vehicles over 21 years old expects an engine identical to the original. A rotary swapped for a piston engine needs a closer look before it ships. Our 25-year rule guide covers the month-by-month counting.

Canada. Transport Canada says vehicles older than 15 years are not regulated at import under the Motor Vehicle Safety Act, with age set by the month and year of manufacture. Every FD3S passed 15 years by August 2017.

For Australia, the UK and the EU, see importing a drift car to Australia, the UK and Canada and importing from Japan to the EU. Whether buying at home now beats importing, model by model, is in is importing a JDM car from Japan still worth it?

How do you actually buy an FD from Japan if you live abroad?

The whole route, from deposit to your port, is in our step-by-step import process guide. For an FD it looks like this:

Two of those steps are where foreign buyers get stuck. Export deregistration usually wants the owner’s registered seal and seal certificate, which only Japanese residents can get; our export deregistration guide explains why. And step 2 has a locked door: the trade auction halls, where most FDs change hands below retail, do not admit private overseas buyers, because membership needs a Japanese business and guarantors. You cannot bid there from abroad.

If you want to see an FD sliding before you choose one, there was exactly one FD3S in the 2026 D1 Grand Prix and D1 Lights rankings when we counted the D1 grid on 21 September 2026. D1 dates and the grassroots days we track are on our drift calendar.