So I was just filling up my tank when a woman with a mini cooper (non S) convertible pulls up at the pump next to me and asks why I bought my car.... I got excited and told her everything i know great about my car.... She looks at me un-impressed and says that the mini can out handle my car (never saying "s2000") any day of the week. Is she correct?

 

i managed to get better times than a cooper S at an autoX event. I'm sure a lot comes down to driver.

 

I dont think she knew what your car was

 

The mini is a great handling car. Not sure it's better than the s2k, but it's pretty close. The problem with the mini is s2k can run circles around it in acceleration.

 

a mini handles great.

but if you like good handling cars....you like the s2k. If you don't your a fool

 

You should've picked up her mini Mini and thrown it in the trash, then squirted petroleum on her face for even suggesting such a thing. She probably drove her car through a twisty street once, passed someone in a Miata, and now believes her car is the shit.
She probably was riding her b/f's Mini because riding his mini dick isn't good enough.
She was probably on cocaine and thought this was a videogame.
She probably wanted to see if you'd take the bait, go through a canyon to see whose car is quicker, and then give you AIDS.

Okay, I'm done.
I bet she's done living now because...
Idk.

 

Its nimble and does handle well. Not sure its any competition for the S on a track though.

 

I would have jumped in her Mini and drove it right up her ****.

 

I go kart can out-handle an S2000 as well, still slow as balls

Usually when people talk down to my car (which is usually a lot) I politely tell them to **** off and pop my hood, and grab them by their necks and Show them the fury that is Honda S2000

 

I test drove a Mini S at an autocross once - I didn't have enough time to get really familiar with how well it handles, but I can say I wasn't extremely impressed with it. If I had to speculate based on the little experience I have with it I'd say the S2k handles better than a Mini-S, and I'm sure the Mini S handles better than the non-S Mini.

When magazines like Road & Track and Car & Driver do comparos - the S2k was always in the test group with faster cars like 335i's and 370Z's, and the Mini is in the slower group with the Ford Focus' and Toyota Camrys - that means something.