All the better! Buy the car now when you're a single student, and pay it off. Then when you're old and married and having kids, you can buy a boring sedan, but won't feel pressured to sell your S2000 because it's long paid for, and these cars are dirt cheap to run especially if you don't drive them daily. That's what I did. Keeping the S2000 probably costs me <$1k/yr (most of that is ~$50/mo for insurance), cheap fun.

 

I have daily'd two s2000's, an ap1 and 06 ap2 with no problems aside from having to occasionally stuff guitars/amps in there. A If you're ever in a pinch for some extra room, delete your passenger from their seat, remove the passenger seat, and bam.

 

Or you could focus on minimizing student debt while in school & buy a properly fun car once you graduate.

Better to own the car and be able to afford it than have the car for a couple years, get the crap beat out of it getting parked on a college campus & need it to sell in a couple years when the payments on your student loans are too high to manage.

 

So many assumptions about the OP's financial status....

 

So many assumptions about the OP's financial status....
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True, not like there's a student debt crisis in this country. Let us make it worse by recommending 15 year old sports cars, when a near brand new economy car can be had.

 

So many assumptions about the OP's financial status....
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True, not like there's a student debt crisis in this country. Let us make it worse by recommending 15 year old sports cars, when a near brand new economy car can be had.
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Did the OP say he was taking out student loans? Maybe his family is covering college. Maybe he's got scholarships. Maybe he's got a job and paying for it as he goes. Who knows? Key is, he didn't mention any of that, and didn't ask about any of that. So keep the financial advice to yourself.

Besides, given the depreciation of a new economy car versus an S2000, an S2000 probably is a much cheaper way to go. Aside from tires and slightly higher insurance, the S is dirt cheap to run.

 

'08 stock AP2 as a daily driver is no problem. Top is down almost all the time. Mostly 45 mph secondary roads that are relatively smooth. Biggest issue would be highway noise when the top is up. Spend some time in one and it will be clear.

 

The best part of it as a daily driver is that it puts me in a good mood. My other car is an E93 M3 6spd coupe. S2000 is still the car I drive to an from work because it is more fun on rather street with the top down.

 

That's assuming he's taking out loans. I'm a junior at fsu and I haven't paid a penny for school because of scholarships, so it's very possible he's in the same situation if he's looking at 15-20k cars. Back on topic, though. I daily my s2k with no issues whatsoever. I've never needed a bigger car, and if I did I would borrow one of my buddies trucks. It's a blast to drive every day and I get 200 or so miles per tank but I drive 70% of the time in stop and go traffic. It's not the most comfortable or the most practical, but if you can afford the initial cost it's dirt cheap to maintain; I only think I spent like $200 to change every fluid in the car, plus a valve adjustment and some other misc things. At the end of the day, it will put a smile on your face every time you drive it. (if you can avoid traffic lol)

 

Can it be done? Yes. Have I done it? Yes. Was it a good decision? Not really. It never felt right. The s2k is a warm weather car and all the snow tires and hardtops in the world won't change the fact that you're trying to shoehorn a square into a round peg.