One of the things that strikes us Europeans a bit is how keen are Americans to heavily mod / tune their S2K's. Many if not most S2K's in Europe are kept stock or lightly modded for a bit of performance / noise (intake, exhaust, springs and/or dampers, wheels, perhaps a repro and things like that) but few appearance or overly expensive mods.

Surely one reason is that our homologation rules are much more severe and our average level of income is lower. And of course we know car customization and modding is a deeply rooted culture in the US, but it's still kind of funny that so many guys in the US are willing to spend a fortune in their S with which they could possibly buy a used proper supercar.

Or perhaps it's just that those who keep it stock do not post in forums like this?

At any rate my question is, I believe that some 70,000 or so S2000's were sold in the US during its production life. What's your guess as to which % of them remain strictly OEM?

 

I'll guess half.
Levi

 

Why doesn't this thread show up when I hit "new content" ?

 

I would suggest that the perceived number of modified s2ks is skewed because owners that modify their cars tend to be younger and younger owners are more likely to participate on social media.

A vast majority of the s2ks that I see in the real world are stock or nearly stock.

This is just speculation on my part.

 

Yeah I thought that might be the case as well. TX for the opinions.

 

Just based on what I've seen, I'd say 10% or less.
But it depends on what modifying means. I have after market wheels and carbon fiber side view mirrors but everything else is 100% stock.

To purist my car is modded but to me I call it stock.

 

I would agree.. I almost never see modded S2000s driving around. Although it doesn't help that my modded car sits in the garage more than it doesn't.

 

Only non-OEM parts in my 2007 GPW is the stereo and wheels. No engine or exhaust mods.
Looking for a set of AP2-V2s.
Does the Modifry Glovebox organizer count?

 

TX all. Having aftermarket wheels and mirrors does not count for me as "heavily modded" which is what I was talking about.

Actually the question had to do with the likelyhood of our cars eventually becoming "classics" or "collectible cars". The s2k was produced in quite large numbers, but if many of them have become heavily modded and / or tuned, in basically non-reversible fashion, the ones which remain stock become lesser and therefore rarer and potentially more desirable as such.