Halfassjack

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Car Analogy

I want to rack up all the miles I can. As someone else mentioned, can't take it with you. I want to enjoy it while I can.

It somehow seems sad to me to see some pristine classic Ferrari or other special performance car that has been preserved. I mean, its great we still have these cars around, but now that car is too valuable to drive, and certainly to wring it out. And it never got used to anywhere near its potential back when it was just a car. Kinda like a big cat in a zoo. Never gets to roam free.

What makes this worse, what is it that is really special about the S2000? There are other cars that can provide a similar driving experience. What makes this car unique is it is affordable to buy, and to maintain. All the cars that can give the same experience (not talking performance numbers here, talking visceral experience) can't be driven on a daily basis. Can't rack up miles and still perform. Can't be used to potential without a lot of downtime for maintenance.

To me, what really makes the S so special is it can give you that exotic car visceral experience on a daily basis, in more practical packaging, and let you drive it like you stole it, for 100's of K miles, all without much more maintenance than your average Civic.

To take that car, and treat it like its a real exotic that actually mandates that treatment, seems like an awful shame.

B serious

I just about daily drive my S2000 spring thru fall...but...unfortunately, that still means very few miles driven.

I'm over the cause of "preserving" it. I used to be that way. But now its been to both coasts, and I've tracked it extensively. It puts a smile on my face when I DRIVE it. That's why I bought it. I didn't pay to agonize myself and burden myself with ownership.

Even with all that...I've somehow only managed 67K miles since 2006 lol. Not to mention my speedo/odometer reads high due to the AP2 trans haha.

Chuck S

I think I'm averaging 5000 miles a summer on mine the past 3 summers. 6-month season here on the North Coast. Summer fun car I drive to work many times other in rain storms where the little silver car is invisible to the idiot drivers here. Driving seems to be a water soluble skill for many. The car is so small it's impracticable many times in perfect weather which keeps the miles down as well. My wife is making whining noises about Richmond (VA) so well see what happens...

-- Chuck

WVCR-V

I just watched an episode of Petrolicious on youtube about a 982,000 miles Porsche 356 from the 1960's with the original owner's son who's been driving it for 50 years. Kind of puts it in perspective.

Langelo DeMysterioso

I say drive the wheels off for the win. I bought a 2800 mile 4 year old car. Five years later has 50k now.
Take some long ass road trips. You won't regret it.

Bullwings

I put about 30K on mine in the first 2 years of ownership even with a second vehicle to split the miles with.

These days the car has become more of a street legal track vehicle and only gets driven around 5k-8k miles a year. Considering that i now live 2.5 miles from work and my DD gets around 10k miles a year, it's still a decent amount relatively speaking.

I don't believe in garage queens and "saving" things. I buy things to use them, not to stare at and show other people. It's why I go to track days and not car meets/shows.

Spagolli94

I bought my S2000 two years ago with only 6,800 miles. I now have 10,500 miles, so that's just under 2,000 miles per year.

I don't intentionally keep the mileage down. I'm a business owner and a dad so I just never have time to drive it. Oh, and I live in Center City Philadelphia, so I'm not going to take the S2000 for average errands. The closest fun roads are almost an hour away, so if I want to go for a real drive, it requires a 4-hour time commitment. I can't remember the last time I had 4-hours to blow on just driving around for fun.