Low-Mileage 1987 Pontiac Fiero SE For Sale

A 1987 Pontiac Fiero SE with just 5,684 miles on the odometer is heading to the Mecum block — and for anyone who follows low-mileage survivors, that number alone should stop the scroll. This is a car that spent nearly four decades barely touched, and it shows up now as close to factory-fresh as a late-’80s Pontiac is ever going to get.

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The listing surfaced this week, and the timing matters. Ultra-low-mileage Fieros don’t come up often. The model ran only five model years before GM pulled the plug after 1988, which means the total production pool was never deep to begin with. A car from the penultimate year with fewer than 6,000 miles isn’t just rare — it’s the kind of survivor that makes serious collectors put Mecum on the calendar.

Why A Sub-6,000-Mile Fiero Is Such A Big Deal

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The Fiero was America’s only mass-produced mid-engine sports car of its era — the engine sat just ahead of the rear axle, a layout you’d expect from Ferrari or Lotus, not a Pontiac dealer in suburban Ohio. GM built roughly 370,000 of them across the 1984–1988 run, which sounds like a lot until you factor in how few survived in genuinely undriven condition. These were affordable sports cars sold to people who actually drove them. Time-capsule examples with five-digit mileage in the low thousands are a different category entirely.

By 1987, GM had already addressed the early-model fire issues that had dogged the Fiero’s reputation, and the chassis had been meaningfully refined. The ’87 also benefited from a revised suspension tune that made it a legitimately better-handling car than the ’84 and ’85 cars that took the most public heat. A survivor from this specific year — post-fix, pre-cancellation — represents the Fiero at something close to its intended best.

The SE Trim: Not The Base, Not The GT — The Sweet Spot

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The SE slotted in the middle of the Fiero lineup, above the base coupe but below the GT. It came standard with the 2.5-liter Iron Duke four-cylinder — the same engine used across the Fiero range in base trim — along with a more complete interior package and the fastback coupe body style that gave the car its most recognizable silhouette. It wasn’t the performance flagship, but it was the trim most buyers actually chose, which makes a pristine example meaningful as a representation of what the Fiero actually was in the market.

The GT gets the most collector attention today, partly because of its 2.8-liter V6 and more aggressive bodywork. But a low-mileage SE in this condition has its own argument: it’s what the Fiero looked like to most of the people who bought one, preserved in a way that almost none of them were.

What Collectors Will Be Watching At Mecum

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No reserve price has been announced publicly, and that’s part of what makes this one interesting to watch. Fiero values have climbed steadily as the model’s cult following has grown — gearheads who were teenagers when these rolled off the lot are now at the age where they can actually afford to chase the cars they wanted back then. A GT in excellent condition regularly clears five figures at auction. A time-capsule SE with under 6,000 miles is a harder comp to find, which means the bidding will be driven more by condition premium than by any established market baseline.

The combination of scarcity, documented low mileage, and the Fiero’s genuine oddball status in American automotive history is a reliable formula for serious collector interest. This isn’t a car that needs rehabilitation — it just needs to be seen by the right room of people. Mecum tends to provide exactly that.

The Fiero never got the send-off it deserved. GM cancelled it just as the platform was finally hitting its stride, and most of the cars that survived did so as daily drivers or project cars rather than preserved originals. This one is different. Here’s hoping the next owner keeps it that way.