I was wondering is it true that they only import 5000 cars to the USA per year? Also is the last for numbers on the VIN the prodution number like 2156 would be 2156 out of 5000?

 

I wish


someone found the numbers - dont quote me but I thought the first year was around 6000-9000?

 

USA

MY 2000 = 9,144

The first S2000s into the states by American Honda do not get registered as sales, since they are used for other purposes. It's believed the first S2000 sold in 1999 (titled as a MY 2000) had VIN# 000063. Thus, it

 

I had heard, back in 2000, that Honda was only going to support the s2000 for two years. Obviously this isn't true, because they have just introduced the new 2002 model, making it three years in production. Anyone have any clue on how many more years the s2000's will be produced?

 

I have heard that 2004 may be the last year.

http://www.collegehillshonda.com/funstuff/...f/honda2003.htm

 

Guys, whatever you heard about a short limited run was bullshit.

Honda said it would be a limited production car in the sense that it's handbuilt along-side the NSX in a small plant with limited capacity. They said that 5,000 of the 12,000 annual production would be sent to the US. As it turns out this was higher than predicted.

Honda NEVER said it would be a two-year run. In fact, early magazines reported it would probably be a 4 to 6 year run. . . but no guarantees it wouldn't be less or longer.

The 2 year crap was dealership / salesman bullshit to justify early rip-off pricing. There may have been some salesmen who didn't know any better, since they are generally speaking the least informed on the car, but the bottom line is it was bullship. There are dozen of threads beating this subject to death -- do a search and you will be reading all day.

 

Think about it: Honda had to have incurred substantial costs in developing a rear-drive platform/car. As long as they can continue to sell all the units they can make, they'd be foolish to make more than incremental changes.

In my opinion, they'll keep making essentially the same car, with incremental refinements/improvements, until they think demand is falling below supply. Maybe they'll re-style the body; however, the longer they produce essentially the same car, the more profitable it becomes. The development costs are amortized over more units, but they don't have to lower the unit price. (Remember, not one cent of the "additional dealer profit" markups went to Honda.) They had to assure management that they could sell at least x number of cars over y years to justify the development costs. If they can sell more, they make more money. And Honda is a for-profit business.

 

MORE MARKETING BULLSHIT!!!!!!!

Sorry for shouting, but I have heard the same old line for three years now. The first time I heard it I thought that I had missed my opportunity to drive this wonderful car. It sent cold chills through my body, talking to the salesman. I was sure delighted several weeks later to see that he didn't know what he was talking about.

Wouldn't it be nice if you could buy a car like ours without talking to the sales person? My sales person was so knowledgeable about our beloved car that she couldn't even get it started to drive it off the showroom floor. I had to show her the "start" button. I have yet to talk to even one sales person that knows much about our car. I talked to a lot of sales people before I bought mine and they usually ended up asking me questions about the car!

I would like to go in and just talk to the financial manager and buy mine that way. Then I wouldn't have to deal with any sales people.

Oh well, sigh, one of these days.