Hi guys,

I'm currently the proud owner of a honda euro and have had the car for the past 2 years. Its probably one of the best cars I've driven in terms of practicality, reliability and handelling... However it has no WOW factor and I'm young and have no family to support so I was thinking of trading in my Euro for an S2000. I do have a few questions though....

1- I only have 35 K to spend maybe 36K if I push it... From what I can see I'll only be able to get a 99 or 00 S2000 with maybe 60 or 70K on the clock. My problem is this.... IF I drive the car for 2 or 3 years and say put another 40K on the clock, that makes it 110K total for example... How hard would the car be to sell in maybe another 2 or 3 years bearing in mind the high KM (for a sports car) and the fact that the car will almost be 10 years old. I know I would never buy an S2000 with such high KM but r there people out there that really do spend the cash on this ???

2- I understand that 02 came the big changes to the S2000 with the rear window changed to glass and clutch buzz fixed.. amongst other smaller thing.. Do you think a couple of years down the track it will become increasingly hard to re-sell the older model S2000 considering the price of the 02 + will come down in price to a more affordable range ? In other words does the S2000 hold its value well... specially the early ones

3- Realiability and practicality... I intend to use this car as a daily driver... IS the car practicle enough to be driven daily through city traffic and also reliable enough for this ?

4- IS there an S2000 replacment planned by honda anytime soon ?

I love the shape and high tech engineering of the S2000 but I'm trying to work out whether its worth the hastle of trying to find insurance, buying an older model , and spending big bucks on fixing clutch problems, gear box problems etc... or spending the same amount on a much newer car such as the 350Z for instance....

thanks guys ! Any help would be greatly appreciated....

 

once you take it to 9000rpms , you'll know what its all about

i looked at a Euro just before i bought my S , and yes i have to agree with you , its a nice well rounded car and great value , But i just find them more suitable for a 50yr old .

I use to drive my S2000 daily . No drama's .

remeber mate , its a Honda , not going to just break down on you . Besides my CV joint issue ($50 fix) , i didnt have any other drama with my car . Like any purchase of a used car , take the time to reasearch it and find a good example , so you wont have any reliability issues with it down the track .

the S2k doesnt have any clutch or gearbox problems . The ones you've heard about are probably from bad examples .

As for you being worried about depreciation , its a car , no matter what , your gonna lose out in the end . So buy it to enjoy it , not what its going to be worth in 3-5yrs time

 

i assume you'd have to spend more to buy a 350z, so you might want to knock out the 350z from the queue.
Presuming you get a low(er) clocked car, and you take care of it, i think you won't have to fork out all that cash that would equate to the equivilent value of a 350z, and especially not all at once either (hopefully).

 

a mate of mine is shopping for a 350Z coupe and he's seen some examples going for as low as $36k .

 

thanks for the Reply guys.... AS far as the 350Z goes, I've seen them advertised for about 37K which I'm assuming I can bargin down to 36 or 35 K. Now that would be an 03 model car with very little KM on it compared to the same priced much older S2000. I do like the 350Z, but I dont get that feeling of driving a unique well engineered car like I would from driving an S2000 I guess... that is why I have this dilema !

 

that just goes to show the popularity of an S2000 compared to a 350Z .

03 S2000 will be in the ball park of about $45 - $52,000. As compared to a Z for mid $30's.

Best thing to do is to drive a few S2000's to find out first hand what all the fuss is about


the Z is a nice car in its own right , my mate has the roadster model , ive driven it , but i'll still pick an S2000 over it

 

Owning and driving a S2000 is a (great) once in a lifetime thing to do.

Although some people love the S2000 so much that they bought it more than once.

 

I've got my S for more then 3 years now..and still loving it..

just need to find an excuse to take a car out for a drive...



love driving the S during the summer night.!! nice and cool..

Take the S bro.>!! hahaha

 

s2000s and 350z had different prices at new. hence the prices now.

pechs sold his 99 s2000 with 110km on it for 35k a few months back. so yes they do get sold at higher kms

and as time goes on there'll be more s2000s with 100+km on it. and the prices will even out a bit more. whereas now the few with more than 100km on it seem to fetch quite low prices. rick damelian has one advertised at 29k

35k will get you a 00 silverstone with around 40km on it in winter.

 

s2000 new was 72,950 or 74,950

350z is 59,990