Win a 1997 Nissan 240SX S14 Kouki from MotionAutoTV

What you're looking at

Kouki is enthusiast shorthand for the 1997-98 facelift S14, and it is the one people actually chase. Nissan gave the second-generation 240SX a wider, angrier front end with projector headlights for its final two model years in the United States, then walked away from the nameplate entirely after 1998. That makes a 1997 car the opening of a very short run, and it is the reason clean Koukis now cost multiples of what tired S13s do.

MotionAutoTV's 30th Project Build Giveaway car is one of them. What the shop has actually done to it is the open question. The spec sheet and a separate condition breakdown are posted on the build page as graphics rather than text, and the official rules describe the prize in four words: "a 1997 Nissan 240sx." If the engine, the odometer reading, or the condition disclosure matter to you — and on a 29-year-old drift-platform car they should — open those panels on the build page before you spend anything, because nothing in the written rules repeats them.

Why it matters

The S14 is the drift-tax car. America never got the SR20DET from the factory (the KA24DE was the only engine on the window sticker), so nearly every interesting 240SX in 2026 is somebody's swap, and the survivors that were never cut up have run away in price. Classic.com currently pegs the average S14 240SX at a little over $18,000, and Bring a Trailer has taken a stock 119,000-mile car all the way to $31,000. A Kouki front end is worth real money on its own.

That is the backdrop to any 240SX giveaway, and it cuts both ways: a good one is a genuinely valuable thing to win, and a rough one is a project you inherit sight-unseen.

The fine print worth knowing

The rules value this car at $5,000. The Grand Prize section reads: "There will be one (1) Grand Prize available. The Grand Prize Winner ("Winner"), upon the Administrator's confirmation of eligibility, will receive a 1997 Nissan 240sx ("Prize" or "Grand Prize"). Grand Prize ARV - $5,000 USD." The winner may instead take a "$5,000 USD cash award in lieu of the aforementioned Prize package." That figure governs the cash option and the tax paperwork, and it sits well below the open-market average for a running S14. The same $5,000 ARV appears in MotionAutoTV's previous rules set, for a 1997 Honda Civic — so read it as the sponsor's stated floor, not an appraisal of the finished build.

It arrives as-is. The rules are blunt: the sponsor "does not make, nor in any manner is responsible or liable for any warranty, representation or guarantee, expressed or implied, in fact or in law, relative to the vehicle including but not limited to its quality, fitness for purpose or mechanical condition."

You pay to get it home. The winner is "responsible for all optional equipment, title, license, insurance and registration fees required in claiming the vehicle, applicable taxes, as well as, all other expenses relating to the use of vehicle, including any travel and transportation costs associated with collecting the vehicle." No delivery is included in the prize.

A week to respond, and an SSN. Seven days from the date of notice to sign and return an Affidavit of Eligibility and Liability & Publicity Release, and that affidavit "will require that the Winner provide their Social Security Number to the Administrator," used for tax reporting; an IRS Form 1099 gets filed. Disputes are individual only — the rules carry a class-action waiver. Alaska and Hawaii residents are excluded.

The entry math. The base rate in the rules is "one (1) entry into the Sweepstakes for each one (1) whole dollar spent," with active VIP members getting a 2x multiplier. Bonus periods are disclosed at "between twenty (20) and two hundred (200) entries (defined by Sponsor) into the Sweepstakes for each one (1) whole dollar spent," and the store is currently running the top of that range at 200X — a $15 sticker pack shows 3,000 entries. One mailed-in card is worth 500 entries. The arithmetic: at the base rate, that free card is the equivalent of a $500 order; during a 200X bonus period, it is the equivalent of about $2.50 of merchandise. Both figures are disclosed in the rules — the multiplier is simply what moves the ratio between them.

The drawing is on or about October 6, 2026, administered by ViralSweep LLC. MotionAutoTV lists 28 prior winners by name and city on its winners page.