A second early Rivian R2 has appeared on the used market at a steep premium, listed at $79,500 by a private seller in Illinois, days after the first one surfaced and then vanished from sale.
The listing, on the marketplace Cars.com, offers a near-new R2 Performance Launch Edition with fewer than 50 miles on the odometer, described by a seller in Peoria as brand new.
The asking price sits about $21,500, or 37.1%, above the R2 Performance’s $57,990 starting price, and roughly $20,000, or 33.6%, above the all-in figure once Rivian‘s $1,495 destination charge is added.
R2’s listing was first noticed by Rivian owner and content creator RivianTrackr and comes only a month after deliveries to external customers started.
Unlike the first seller, who offered a personal reason for parting with the car, the Peoria seller gives none.
The VIN 681
The listed vehicle is the only R2 configuration currently on sale.
Finished in Catalina Cove blue over a Black Crater Signature interior, it carries the dual-motor, all-wheel-drive Performance powertrain rated at 656 horsepower, a 330-mile range, 21-inch Liquid Tungsten wheels on all-season tires, the Tow Package.
The lifetime access to Rivian‘s Autonomy+ hands-free system that comes with the Launch Edition, along with the charging adapters, key fob and card keys.
The First Listing Has Gone
The new listing follows the first known example of a resold R2, a near-new Launch Edition offered in Littleton, Colorado, at $79,900.
The Colorado car, first shared on X by the Rivian owner and enthusiast Chris Hilbert, had been listed by a seller who said it was intended as a present that was no longer needed, and carried a different specification, in Half Moon Gray on all-terrain wheels, from the Illinois example.
That car has since disappeared from the marketplace.
Whether it sold at or near its asking price or the owner simply withdrew the advertisement is not known, and neither the seller nor Rivian has said.
Scarcity by Design
The R2 is central to Rivian‘s push beyond its $70,000-plus R1 line, and the Launch Edition’s mix of the top Performance powertrain and included Autonomy+ has made the earliest cars especially sought after.
Customer deliveries began only on June 9, and the sole version available so far is the Performance with Launch Package, with the cheaper Premium, Standard and base trims not due until late 2026 and into 2027.
Rivian is releasing order invitations to reservation holders in rolling batches, each of which unlocks the configurator that turns a reservation into a firm order, and quotes a two-to-six-week wait once an order is confirmed.
The company has prioritized buyers near its service and demo centers, existing owners and those with expiring leases, leaving a gap for anyone who wants an R2 immediately.
Supply is ramping fast but remains thin against demand.
Rivian had assigned more than 1,300 R2 vehicle-identification numbers within 10 days of launch, a count that has since climbed past 2,300, yet it is targeting only 20,000 to 25,000 R2 deliveries this year, the bulk in the second half.
What Rivian’s Terms Allow
Reselling a delivered R2 does not break Rivian‘s rules.
The company’s reservation agreement includes a “No Resellers” clause that lets it cancel any preorder it believes was made to resell the vehicle, and R2 reservations cannot be transferred to another person.
Those provisions apply to the reservation stage, however, and Rivian imposes no penalty on reselling a car once it has been delivered and titled, so a private seller listing a car they own is within their rights.
The approach is looser than some rivals’.
Tesla in April required buyers of its limited Signature Edition Model S and Model X Plaid to sign a binding contract barring resale for a full year, and earlier attached a $50,000 penalty to reselling a Cybertruck within its first year without permission.
