Grant

Im thinking of getting one of these. What breaks on them etc etc?

Cheers

cfoster

Yup, had one last year, loved it and only sold it due to wanting more seats!! Great fun to drive (although tail happy in the wet), revs like fook, handles really well and is also comfy on long journeys (drove mine to Newquay at last years Newquay PF pissup!! Nice having aircon and being a softtop, HID lights as standard, decentish boot, mine even had a satnav screen built into the dash!!!! Couple of pics.....




Chris

gingeRS

bit of a license loser, from what i have heard, my uncle had one from new for only 1 year and amassed 9 points

was a nice car very quick, and got all the toys

insurance is very high though i think, group 20D

personally i'd get a boxster s (not as quick) but thats just my choice

vtec is sweet though

Porkie

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Good cars great value and alot of fun to drive. A bit gutless low down but get the revs up and they fly

Boxster S is quicker actually Ginge. The current Boxster S has almost 300bhp and even the older ones have the same power and less weight than a Honda NSX! a better car as well but they are more alot more money though.

I like S2000's

RichardPON

A mate has a supercharged one.

Makes up for that typical VTEC all revs no torque thing going on, and makes it a very quick car indeed.

I'm a big fan.

Grant

This is the one im thinking of buying:

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/121434.htm

Ive been told previously that 82,000 miles on them is nothing.

AndyBrew

I test drove one, and when giving it some beans during changing up the whole fucking car would pull violently to the left as if a gust of wind had caught ya

put me right off

RS500/364

Had one in me rear view mirror !!

and that was in the saff

seemed the same until i changed to thrid gear then left it !!

cfoster

grant - looks nice that one, nice colour combo with the interior

Andybrew - god knows why mate! They are very controllable when sliding etc.... The rear subframes are easily damaged though if previously accident damaged so perhaps that one had a bent s.frame?

RS500 - different kind of car altogether mate but out of the 2 id have my old s2000 over my old saff ANY day of the week!

Chris

Porkie

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And your point is?!?!?!?!?!?

Grant for Ł9500 you will have a lovely summer with that

I loved Chris's yellow one. Great colour for them I think

Grant

Cheers guys. Im selling my Focus ST back to Ford today and im seriously thinking about going down for this S2000 next week.
Never had a soft top

lead_foot

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Fantastic cars, great fun to drive. A bit lacking low down but its always going to unless you add forced induction. Very well balanced, many hours of enjoyment have been had on my local rally stage keeping it in Vtec.

smithy20vt

Honda have just sent out a press release annoucing that they are doing a limited amount of s2000 Type R's running the same engine but interior wise there more lightweight and race orientated.

It should be a wicked car after seeing how good the standard one is.

The replacement for the current S2000 is out in 2008 but there is talk that the car will be more luxuroious than the previous car.

Terry Tibbs

the only mans soft top bar the m3 and the z4.

proper cars

RS500/364

piont is speed or pose soft top down frezzing the your nuts off
british summer sun shine the top down and it starts pissing it !!

Physio

A friend of mine has one.
He's had it for over a year & it's been a reliable car but you have to rev the fook out of it to feel the full power.

Porkie

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Have you ever owned a top quality opentop sportscar???

They are the BOLLOX. I would rather drive my Boxster than my Skyline let alone a shonky saff

Roof down in the summer is awesome....

Roof down at night in the winter with the heater blasting and attacking some country roads is the NUTS.

Fast cars just get you in trouble with the law and may also endanger others if you use them really hard... where as a sports car like a S2000 just makes you smile however fast or slow you are going in my opinion.

cfoster

I'm with Porkie on that one, softtop down during the summer at night with the heaters on, nothing like it at all. With the S2000's (and Boxsters etc) at least you know that after driving em hard you can pull up on the drive at home, turn it off knowing that its 100% guaranteed to start the next day and not have any oil splattered over the floor!!

What sort of money are Boxsters fetching these days?? We're selling her TT convertible and not really sure what to get next!

Chris

RichardPON

You've got to be kidding me?

That's the equivalent of someone saying "I had this cossie in my mirror and I just nailed the Veyron's throttle and fucked off"

Usual cossie motorway merchants - do you realise fun can be had going round corners too?

gingeRS

gotta agree to that

prob had more fun the ex's mx-5 than i have ever had in the saff, who needs corners though, just t-junctions

there's something very satisfieng about wiping the smirk off a 911 drivers face on the M1 though (even if you are praying at the time "dont break, please dont break" )

foreigneRS

hoping they'll go back on the employee lease scheme very soon to get one for this summer.

Porkie

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Giving them away mate Ship one in. You won't regret it. Get an early S. awesome value now

RichardPON

How true is that!

However, when it does break........ I was having a play with a Porsche on the way back up to Norwich once, when the old T3 shat a blade and expired with the biggest cloud of smoke ever. Smile on the Porsche driver's face only compounded the fact that I dove the remaining 2 miles looking like an industrial strength fog machine was attached to the back of the car!

Have had one of the best drives ever, when I took an MX5, roof down, sun blazing, pointed down a country lane I know very well, and just interacted with the road like never before. I LOVE that feeling, and no amount of boost in a straight line ever gives that feeling of satisfaction.

Porkie

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cfoster

Fook me Ł13k / Ł14k for an S now!!! I thought they were 16k +!!!! The missus is 25 soon so will have to wait till then else ill get my arse whipped for insurance!!! They look the nuts in black!!

Porkie

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SOOOOOOOOO true

You NEED to take my Boxster down that road. Its just an amazing car to drive. The simple mods I have made to it have just made it alot better than the sum of its parts if you see what I am saying???

Renton drove it recently and just said that car has no right to be that good!!

Its worth about Ł3.50 and a Penknife as well now I only have it for a few more months as well. I promised I would give it to my mum as a retirement present.

I am not looking forward to the mess she is going to make of the wheels

Rhys

Did you buy that S2000 in the end then? just wondered what its like.

Rhys