And that is the big error.

The S2000 is only 'just' enough to be entertaining.

Buy one of these and you'll be pretty sick when the higher powered varient appears 18m later.

 

And the depreciation, a 2yr old normally aspirated GT86 is going to be worth sub £16k when the turbo is introduced.

 

Threads merged...

 

As much as that?

The turbo would have to be a bloody grenade, to make the boggo model retain 64% of its cost after two years.

That'd be good by modern standards. I presume there are people rich/stupid enough to change a new car like that - I prefer a car that maintains 16% of its value over a dozen years, personally.

 

Saw one of these on the road for the first time the other day.

Couldn't quite work out what it was at first, but once I'd clocked the Toyota badge the penny dropped.

It was the same colour as Nick's and I thought it looked very good in the flesh. The rear didn't look too bad in my rear view mirror either.

 

Saw one of these on the road for the first time the other day.

Couldn't quite work out what it was at first, but once I'd clocked the Toyota badge the penny dropped.

It was the same colour as Nick's and I thought it looked very good in the flesh. The rear didn't look too bad in my rear view mirror either.

 

So good I said it twice.

Bloody forum !

 

My S2 retained about 18% over 11 years so far. Not bad at all.

Saw a red one today, looked very nice. An antidote to the huge wheeled, no suspension things everyone else is churning out

 

Absolutely -like the MX-5, it's the antithesis of those. Feels like a Mini or Lotus thrashing all those Falcons in historic racing.

Tell you what, though: a neighbour had an E46M in blue. Rather tasty, except for the OTT wheels. Replaced by E92M. Less tasty, too big to make wheels look oversized, so OK. Replaced by AMG63 thing. What an awfully gauche, vulgar piece of tat. It's like it crashd into Ripspeed at Halfords. Wish he'd get one of the others back...




Footnote - That's not an attempt to write like Beade; my e key is randomly ignoring me...

 

Huge power is for pub arguments it most definitely doesn't make a car more fun in the real world,

The most fun I have ever had driving fast was in a 1951 Bentley mkvi across France, the sense of satisfaction in stringing corners together in a two ton rolly barge still makes me smile now, even more fun when overtaking modern machinery. In fact they where so good in period Raymond mays used to do practice / sighting laps in his to save the race car. There is a difference between fun and speed . If everyone could get past the power and badge snobbery the world would be a happier place ( irony that I just sighted a Bentley as my example)