By the comments coming from your wife id say that you finally drove the car "properly" hahaha.

Im glad you enjoyed the S, it truley is a remarkable machine. I own a CR as well and cant think of one thing i dont love about it.

A simple solution to the hardtop only factor is to just pick up an interior cover to throw in the trunk. That way if your driving without the HT youve got a backup plan should there be any unsuspected rain. Im assuming you would be keeping the HT off most of the time, and if not then youve got nothing to worry about! Cheers

-Brad

 

Please do tell - are these things standard items? I'm thinking of pulling the soft top out of my car but I don't want to get stuck somewhere with out the hard top and have rain. I can give up trunk space for that.

Also, OP - this has been one of my favorite threads on here.

Edit: here's an interior cover that includes an S2000 application: http://www.drivingcomfort.com/evolution-4-...onvertibles.cfm

or this: http://www.amazon.com/PopTop-Interior-Cock...T/dp/B001S2XOB6

 

i do remember seeing the cover (just goes over the interior) and it's meant for temporary light rain i guess. not like a real soft top...and obviously you can't drive w/ it on so you can't get caught in the rain. i remember seeing it in the CR owners thread.

back on topic i'm also glad you got to see what all of us here love. hope you get the CR although for me too the lack of a soft top is a big drawback. good luck!

 

This couldn't be farther from the truth I work at a Ferrari, Maserati, Aston, Porsche dealer. All of these cars I feel are extremely stable. You must have been reading about a 308 or Mondial, you can get rattles but once again gonna be the 80's car. Being that I have driven pretty much everything that is anything on the performance car end and everyday at the end of the day I jump in my 08 S2K throw the top back and enjoy the car it is not a power monster but I don't want that. Honestly spending my own money only cars I would have over my S2K is an V12 Vantage of GT3 RS 3.8 liter.

 

I don't remember the models but it was probably the year - the complaints also included nearly impossible to see out of, not just difficult, clutches that were as heavy as a semi truck and transmissions that felt like they belonged in tractors; not because they were crappy but because they were so heavy. I chocked all of that up to the technology of the day combined with the extremely high power output the cars were making. I figured the rattling was because the car wasn't designed to reduce vibration and it only felt like it was going to rattle apart; I'm sure they can design it to hold together even under lots of vibration. Maybe it's bullshit?

The reviewers didn't say they didn't like the vehicles either, just that was the nature of operating one.

 

that does sound very familiar to what I felt of in a Countach i don't have much seat time in them at all but they are impossible to see out and I believe literally had tractor transmissions. The modern exotic is extremely driver friendly and has every creature comfort you could want (to a fault) . But once again when you get into pure drivers cars I really feel like our S2k's are easily among the best.

 

I fell in love with the first drive. I had never driven anything that had a handle like that to the road. I remember now, thinking too that it lacked power. I remember flooring it, and thinking "wow thats it?". Now that I have had the car for almost a year, I have learned how to really get every horsepower out of it. Now quite a few people I know would rather not ride in my car, because its so fast (and loud).

Definitely, first thing you should do when you get it. Go to an open space and try some drifting, and slide the car. The reaction of the car will definitely surprise you. TRUST ME, do this soon as you can. I almost wrapped around a tree cause I didnt know...

 

LOLWUT!? you went off the deep end right here buddy lol.

 

Not here.

It's not a GT. You'd really need to test drive on some good twisties to drive the S as it's meant to be driven. That said, it's absolutely possible that it's just not the car for you.

Not really. It's the start of VTEC. Don't be afraid to redline it. That may not be practical for a test drive but 6500 is nothing for an S -- even the AP2's.

^ This. Cannot be emphasized enough. Though any given S could, of course, have transmission issues. It's difficult to tell when someone simply says that it's "notchy" whether it's the car or the driver.

 

i didnt go through all 5 pages,..but only advice is that for the car to feel quick you need to keep it in its powerband,..which is where most other cars are close to redline,.. wind it out youll see