Good evening S2000 owners.
My names Brad and I own a 2000 Mazda Miata. I am in love with my miata, i've driven over 20k miles in less than 8 months, pure recreation. The only thing it's lacking is... power and respect. I've constantly been thinking about trading it in for a S2K just months after owning it and today I made the big move. I went to multiple dealerships and finally found a 2001 for a decent price. It's yellow and is completely stock minus a cold ram intake for 10,600. I'm waiting on an approval for a loan by my bank (only reason I didn't purchase it today) and will go to pick it up tomorrow morning after I get the check from the bank. I plan on learning a lot about these incredible cars here, as I was active on the Miata forums.

I'm going on a trip home to Florida from central Texas tomorrow after the purchase. This is a 2000 mile drive, so hopefully i'm not being sold garbage. Test drives and inspections looked great though. Just a few cosmetical deficiencies. The front lower lip of the bumper is a little scratched and the back window is almost completely impossible to see through because of how foggy it is. I'll probably have to purchase a new one soon.

Anyways, does anyone think i'm getting ripped off this deal? Should I turn back now? There's hardly any below 13K around me and I just don't have that kind of money.

I'll post on here tomorrow when I get it. If I don't come back tomorrow well.. I probably didn't get the car for some unforeseen reason :/ but everything is looking good right now!

 

How many miles on it?
NADA retail excellent condition on that car is probably around 12k if it's ~50k miles.
Sounds like it's a little below good condition. Any other defects? Dings/dents or rips/tears in the leather seats?

Maybe hit up the central TX forum to see if anyone would be willing to go take a look at it for any obvious signs of boost/flogging.

If everything checks out, $10,600 is probably a good buy IMO.

UD.

 

Good luck with the purchase. But just know, you're still going to get the "cute car" and "why didn't you get a real car" comments. Not trying to dissuade you at all. I love the car, and the community that I'm a part of because of it, but the same ignorant people who razz you about your Miata will razz you about the S2k.

 

Waiting for you to post back telling us you got it.
Levi

 

 

Welcome.

When you get an S2000 check out the link in my signature.