A car as old as our youngest staff member, this 2000 Honda S2000 stands remarkably preserved and remained on its original Manufacturer’s Statement of Origin until this past year.
According to the listing, the Honda S2000 stands best known for achieving the highest specific output of any na…
First owned by Ms. Hedy Cirrincione, this Honda sports just 42 miles and stood as a preservation piece alongside her daily driven Formula Red S2000.
As you do.
I was in the car business for years and it was "unusual" at the very least to see cars with less than 50 miles on them. The cars have to be test driven at least, loaded, unloaded, and then are usually driven around storage lots and dealer lots. Then, they get driven by sales people and hopefully customers. In other words, for a car to have only 42 "original" miles, it would have had to have the shortest distance to travel in every situation to the dealer and then loaded onto a flatbed and then taken to the new owner who would have pushed it into their garage for safe keeping, all the while to not have driven the car in 24 years. I'd love to hear the story behind this and I have a hard time buying it. If this story is true, what about the fluids after 24 years? The hoses? The possible corrosion? I just dunno because it seems unlikely.
So, 2.0 or 2.2L S2000? At a Honda event many moons ago, we got to drive them back to back. As I recall, it was a toss-up between revs and footprint. IIRC, I got quoted in Super Street about it.
In reply to David S. Wallens :
2.0L, no question. 9000 rpm > +7? lbft of torque. Most people just shift at 6k rpm and never get the full experience.
DavyZ said:I was in the car business for years and it was "unusual" at the very least to see cars with less than 50 miles on them. The cars have to be test driven at least, loaded, unloaded, and then are usually driven around storage lots and dealer lots. Then, they get driven by sales people and hopefully customers. In other words, for a car to have only 42 "original" miles, it would have had to have the shortest distance to travel in every situation to the dealer and then loaded onto a flatbed and then taken to the new owner who would have pushed it into their garage for safe keeping, all the while to not have driven the car in 24 years. I'd love to hear the story behind this and I have a hard time buying it. If this story is true, what about the fluids after 24 years? The hoses? The possible corrosion? I just dunno because it seems unlikely.
In early 2004 (I think), we had a customer ship a Miata to us for modification. IIRC it had 42 miles on it. We also picked up a Miata from the dealer in 2003 that had 20-something. It happens. Heck, there was a 1990 Miata with 38 miles on Bring A Trailer a few months ago.
The thing that sticks out in this story is the MSO sticking around until last year. In other words, someone registered it. Why, after all this time? That's odd.
It'll be interesting to see what it sells for. That (fully optioned) 38 mile Miata sold for $40,500, which is less than it cost new when you take inflation into account. Original MSRP of the S2000 was $32,477. With inflation, that's $60,733.53, or the bottom end of the hopeful projection by the auction house. In other words, if it sells for that, the owner dedicated 25 years of care and storage space to get absolutely zero return - never mind the opportunity cost. Turns out that buying new cars as investments is not a good idea unless it's some Ferrari that was never intended to be driven anyhow.
Keith Tanner said:
Original MSRP of the S2000 was $32,477. With inflation, that's $60,733.53,
As a person who was lusting after S2ks when they were still on the showroom floor and I was at my first job that is incredibly depressing - apparently I never really got any closer to being able to afford one...
Yeah, you forget just how expensive they actually were/are. $61k is within a couple of rebates of a base Stingray today. Or two 2004 Miata ragtops with enough left over for a couple of sets of tires, which means you have an instant spec series :)
I just checked, we took delivery of our Tesla with 3 miles on the odometer. When it only has one truck ride from the factory to the delivery point and they get delivered immediately, they don't accumulate a lot of miles!
I wonder how dried out some of the seals are from nonuse?
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