ok sweet

 

Not quite. That 6797 number is all S2000s sold for the CALENDAR year. Which includes a good number of MY01 cars.

 

 

Honda never intended for the S2000 to be a high-volume car.

I think they have more-than succeded with this car.

 

Fair enough... but Honda could care less about the Used car market... it does NOT benefit them at all when it comes to profit. For example, when the new civic came out... it was designed to be Harder to modify... the reason is so that people could look into a New honda, rather than an old one.

Honda, just like any corporation, wants sales. In order to get these sales, it'll cater to the needs of all people... but most people aren't enthusiasts... most are potential civic and accord drivers. That is why those two models are mass produced... as apposed to the s2000 which is hardly produced.

If you were a corporate head, would you want people to buy your cars new from you, or used from some John Doe? New from you = money in your pocket, Used from John Doe = NO money in your pocket... hmm...

 

This was a major selling point for me.

 

I agree. I see them all the time

 

look if this car was the shitzles I don't think honda would care about limiting production if the demand was 100,000 cars. The reason the demand is so far behind isn't because the cars not good but because the car design is falling behind the competion. Demand is limiting production.

 

They sell less because the demand isn't there. My dealers lot is always full of cars, cars they hope to sell! Selling more cars is there goal anything else would be crazy.

 

If Honda wants to sell more of these things (and that's a big "if" because unless you work in the corporate offices the best you can do is guess at what the intentions and future plans are) then they need to get out and b*tch slap their dealers.

I looked at the S2000 in 2001 and ended up buying a Miata because the dealer wouldn't budge from his $8k 'market adjustment.' I went to four different dealers in the Portland metro area and got the same story from each of them ($5k - $8k 'market adjustment' because "we don't have as much profit built into our MSRP as the North American car dealers"... apparently when the turnip truck went past the dealership they saw me fall off).

Then this past summer I decided to look again at the '04 and the 19-year-old salesman was trying to tell me it was "a $40,000 sports car, 'cause that's what's on the sticker..." He neglected to mention a chunk of that was 'pure profit' (oops, I mean 'market adjustment'). Now some of this was my fault. I figured if this dealer was doing it they were all doing it again. Came to find out later I could have gotten one for $30k (they gave me the price over the phone without any haggling).

So what did I do? I went out and found a used 2002 with Honda Certified warranty. I had been planning on getting rid of my Miata and getting an '04. This way I kept the Miata and got the S.