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Just how outnumbered are we?

Old 04-23-2015, 03:16 PM
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Hoping to pick up my S2000 soon after dropping a deposit (very early may, yay work!) and in the process of scouring the forum I found a link that shows just how many of each car are taxed and SORN so thought I'd look at the numbers.

Now it's easy enough with the S2000 as there are only 3 options available, other cars have many options so I've just added up some of the largest as a rough idea. Numbers are taken from howmanyleft.co.uk and are from Dec 31st 2014 and for most other cars I've rounded because effort. Also screw BMW for so many versions.

I've been looking around on the roads for weeks trying to see an s2000 in the wild around London. No luck! Needless to day, get the ditchfinders off and keep the car safe!

Make Model Taxed/SORN

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Honda S2000          4,720/940
Honda S2000 GT       1,557/211 
Honda S2000 GT 100   78/11
Total                7,517

Mazda MX5            39,564/11,362
Mazda MX5 S VT       4,800/600
Mazda MX5 S VT Sport 5,200/700
Mazda MX5 Sport      8,400/400
Total (lowball)      71,000

Mazda RX8 231        7,800/1,500
Mazda RX8 192        5000/1000
Total                15,300

Audi TT FSI          9,000/0
Audi TT Quattro 180  9,200/500
Audi TT Quattro 225  20,600/1,400
Total (very lowball) 40,700

BMW Z4 2.2i SE       2,200/150
BMW Z4 2.5I          1,500/100
BMW Z4 2.5I SE       1,100/50
BMW Z4 3.0I          1,200/100
BMW Z4 3.0I SE       1,300/100
Z4 SDRIVE20I M SPORT 2,100/0
BMW Z4 SDRIVE23I     2,000/0
BMW Z4 SE            1,800/50
BMW Z4 Se Roadster   1,500/50
BMW Z4 SI Sport      2,100/100
BMW Z4 Sport         1,900/50
Total (lowball)      19,450

Porsche Boxster      12,300/1,700
Porsche Boxster S    9,200/1,200
Total (lowball)      24,400
Old 04-23-2015, 09:24 PM
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Interesting figures there!
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We are not outnumbered, we are the elite.
Old 04-23-2015, 10:33 PM
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very rare to see another S2000 on the road. I drove up to Nottingham a couple of weeks ago from the South coast and saw;
1 Ferrari La Ferrari,
2 Jag F types
3 Transformer Autobots (Bumblebee, Barricade and Bumblebee 1970's version)
0 S2000s


So by my highly scientific measurements S2000s are less common that fictional sentient machines...
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Interesting read that. Didn't realise there were so few on UK roads. Especially the GT. Quite a few of them in this neck of the woods :-)
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About a 1000 total on SORN? Seems high? Most go back on road start of April I'd guess to get the Easter / Summer. Maybe some of the racers keeping the reg alive in case put back on road? Any other ideas?
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I didn't know we had so few S2000's in the UK.
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That makes for interesting reading. If you folks could hurry up and write off a few more, that would be great. Should bump the value of mine up a bit more
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Originally Posted by s3swiss
About a 1000 total on SORN? Seems high? Most go back on road start of April I'd guess to get the Easter / Summer. Maybe some of the racers keeping the reg alive in case put back on road? Any other ideas?

I'm usually put mine back on the road on April, but i've still to do my brakes so it's gonna be May this time
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I see a few, not many though.

88 GT100s - did they make 100 and already 12 (including BoMs?) are dust

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