Updated S2000 in the works?

Red Bread · 02-08-2017, 07:24 AM

It wasn't the clearest post, I sort of figured that's what you thought.

When the S2k came out and I test drive it, it felt exactly like my NB Miata up to the Miata's 7,000 rpm redline, it just had another 2k rpm to go. I loved the AP1 and the twitchy rest end. Less enamored with the more buttoned down AP2.

ripper0306 · 02-09-2017, 05:23 AM

I still have my S2000, I just hope they will not destroy this legend

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In France, the value of a clean S2000 went up this 2 last years (+4/5k€ average), and the old NSX value went crazy (x2).

FriskyDingo · 02-09-2017, 10:51 AM

In all honesty, the old S2K never did much for me either....

48Laws · 02-09-2017, 11:16 AM

I appreciate what they were back then more now....like Jay Z.

3GFX · 02-09-2017, 01:31 PM

If they keep the same recipe of the lineage it will be great. Light roadster, high revving.

Anything else....don't bother Honda, plz!

mxa121 · 02-15-2017, 02:33 PM

I have an AP2 S2000 now and I have yet to find a car more suited to track abuse. You can get some serious lap times without worrying about everything breaking or overheating. I seriously think it's the best HPDE car you can buy.
Of course a Miata is cheaper, but it is sloooow. A corvette is much faster but has way more issues.

I long for a company to make another S2000, but not to ruin it with turbos and autos. Make it light, stiff, and with a zippy engine that screams at you!

Swizzie7 · 02-16-2017, 01:46 AM

Loved and Miss my AP1

W/// · 02-16-2017, 12:10 PM

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Originally Posted by mxa121

I have an AP2 S2000 now and I have yet to find a car more suited to track abuse. You can get some serious lap times without worrying about everything breaking or overheating. I seriously think it's the best HPDE car you can buy.
Of course a Miata is cheaper, but it is sloooow. A corvette is much faster but has way more issues.

I long for a company to make another S2000, but not to ruin it with turbos and autos. Make it light, stiff, and with a zippy engine that screams at you!

I just don't see it happening to be honest. It's going to be impossible for even Honda to recapture the magic. We can be certain it won't have a super high revving NA engine, and that to me was what was so unique about the S2k.

What blows my mind if why no one has tried to copy that recipe. The FRS for example, should have come out with at least the same HP as as a 17 year old S2000!

Mingwan · 02-16-2017, 03:48 PM

It'll come out with a newer engine, with forced induction, and make 1 or 2 more horsepower than the predecessor.

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Mingwan Major 1892 Rep 1,340 Posts Drives: X1 Individual custom paint Join Date: Jan 2015 Location: Kansas iTrader: (0)	It'll come out with a newer engine, with forced induction, and make 1 or 2 more horsepower than the predecessor.
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