You cannot beat a west coast/southwest car. No corrosion at all. That is why aircraft boneyards are out here. That is a sweet little car and I can understand your reluctance to mod it to pieces. Resist the urge for at least a year so you can get to know it. You may change your mind.

I left my 2009 with 30K miles almost stock. I popped in a new headhunt but kept the OEM one just in case. I added NVH (sound insulation) but it can be removed or is totally hidden. Put in a CR radio door and shift knob but that is easy to swap out again. That is it. I love it stock.

 

Bone stock and it lives in SoCal. Honestly, this lil' one is a survivor for sure. 16,000 miles and Hardtop equipped. I love it just the way it is.
I'm so committed to leaving it stock that I threw it up on the tags.

 

I forget who, but someone on these forums said the AP2 5 spoke wheels looked like garbage. I forgot who it was, but his ass needs to be taken out to the yard, and be repeatedly beat.

What a gorgeous car!

 

Agreed! There are two basement dwellers on these boards I repeatedly ignore and I can almost bet one of them said it. Their comments are almost always there to try and stir stuff up and put others down subtly.

Cheers bud and thanks.

 

gorgeous indeed, i prefer those oem rims to mine any day of the week

 

Oh thats a gem, i can see what you mean.... sweet!

 

Ya need to get that rigid roof off the car and enjoy summer!

Every time I see a Chicane Silver 2008 the Tenth Commandment looms it's head up, makes me feel a little dirty, and have to go beg forgiveness from my Silverstone 2006. I still secretly want to put a set of those 5-spoke wheels on the car even though they're not "correct."

"Tasteful" mods are completely subjective. Mine, of course, are wonderful.

-- Chuck

 

Every color of the car looks great to me, including all the silvers! The only color I wasn’t keen on when I first bought my other S2K new, was Suzuka Blue. I love that color today when it’s a clean car!

As for the hardtop, I’m a big fan of coupes and call me crazy, but I actually really enjoy it with the fixed roof. I’m one of those people that may scoop up an M Z3 Coupe here sometime soon as well, if that explains anything.

 

There were 70,000 s2000 sold in the USA.

The vast majority are likely stock.

I find a stock S2000 nice to drive but boring to look at. I’m sure many people who like stock S2000 find my car vulgar.

Neither opinion really matters.

 

I agree with you. Lots of people, especially younger owners, tend to spend a lot of money making their cars "their own" and putting ugly body kits on or doing other irreversible mods to their cars that might appeal to relatively few other people and by-and-large destroy the resale value of their cars. The recent thread of the guy trying to sell the "Can-Am" S2000 is a good example. Keep the car stock and oem. The Honda design and engineering teams got it right the first time.