Attitude? maybe

Sometimes I become afraid of what awaits me when I take the little thing out on the road. There is something that makes me nervous about litterally being able to reach 100 mph so quickly. And there is a part of me that doesn't want to drive at all under 85. So nervous is a good term to describe me as I walk to my car.

But to have a real attitude I'd have to believe it could beat anything on the road, and it definitely cannot. Now with an F50 I know I would have a MAJOR attitude and thats why I don't buy one...that and the price tag

-B

 

Excellent replies! I really didn't mean attitude in a negative way though, more like the "sense of accomplishment" or the bravado kind of way, I never look down on other people, I have very humble origins myself. It's just something about this car that makes me different, I mean, I'd walk up to it differently than I would a Buick ( transportation appliance) if there were no one else on the planet to impress. Maybe it's just as SomethingWicked said..."The S2000 is like our soul wrapped in metal."

Andrew

 

No lie, I saw two fifty something women in a silver/red S2K this morning, top down, visors on, going to the tennis club by Boston College. They thought they were BIG TIME!

 

Does the S2000 give you an attitude?

I would have to admit.... YES!

I've had a lot of cool cars but nothing comes close to the attention this baby gets. In Boca, a land where the norm is Diablo's, Ferrari's, Bentley's, Hummers, Vipers, etc. -everywhere-, The S2 still draws attention when all of the above are parked in front of the posh valet cafes! Awesome! One of my neighbors has a Z-8 Beamer.... I drule everytime I see it.

The only problen is my S2 has spent some time in the DC/VA area and potential theives/carjackers are always eyeing my car. I'm no little guy 200lbs-cut- bodybuilder and martial arts dude but I'm still very leary even when I just stop for gas. Believe it not (which I'm sure you've had similar situations), car loads of people often stop (sometimes turning around from their original direction) and will come into the gas station just to get out and walk around the car! I'm honored but at the same time very learly too.

Dave

 

Drving my S2K, waiting for the 600 mile break in period to be over with, I don't think I have an attitude. In fact I am driving slower and alot more careful, because I don't want any of these crazy drivers here in Dallas, to run me off the road.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by av8tor2
[B]Drving my S2K, waiting for the 600 mile break in period to be over with, I don't think I have an attidude.

 

I tend to drive like a much bigger a-hole in the s2, than I do in the Civic.

 

Yes. A smile and a confidence that it will do what I ask of it. Just monday I had to stop VERY quickly when a woman (on her cell phone!) ran the heck out of a red light. My friend in the passenger seat almost soiled his trousers, but commented favorably on my reflexes and the s2000's response.

 

I feel quite bad driving my car, I think it gives the bad idea to people. In london driving a convertible sport car means you're a young City broker, and in paris it means that you're just a tasteless rich a**hole.

I'd rather be driving a really cool ironic car, like a 1979 matt grey Chevrolet Caprice Classic (my next car).

But I forget about all this image thing when I'm driving on some Swiss mountain road, with my gf and some good music, with no one around to see how clich

 

Whether or not we intend to display an attitude, the car serves to heighten others perception that you may have an attitude or, at the very least, you have some modicum of taste, elan, joie de vivre.

What my wife and I have discovered is the different way each of us are treated when driving solo in the car. As a guy, I sense that people may respect me, but more often envy me. Looks are often furtive and sneaky. Very few people break into conversation.

When my wife drives the car, folks just get chatty. Sometimes they get little forward. She was actually stopped by a motorcycle cop who just wanted to tell her the car looked really nice, ask how she liked it, and to advise her to get it washed. She has been totally amazed by this ever since we bought the car.

Cars lend this emotional boost in strange ways. Before the S2000 I never owned a fast car. The closest I came to having a car that piqued anyone's interest was when I drove a 1958 Volkswagen Van that had been shortened to a four foot (axle-to-axle) wheelbase. It got a lot of attention, but in a cute, non-threatening way. In that era, my contemporaries got attention by driving Hemi-cudas and other "pony cars". The S2000 is not so flashy or imposing as to have the clout of a Lamborghini or Viper. At the same time, it is clearly well beyond a "college chick" car like a Miata. The fact is that the styling is so damned impressive that I have had Ferrari and NSX owners comment to me about it. If that doesn't start one down the road to Attitude, I don't know what would.

As for the practical application of attitude, the car makes it really simple to pull away from, dart past, and blow the doors off of those slow-in-the-fast-lane, cell phone-talking, book-reading, shaving, tooth-brushing, playing-with-the-stereo morons that all too often clog the morning commute. I never would have done that in my V-Dub or any of the other marginal cars I owned in my past lives.