There are some owners who love preserving the s2000; however, there are others who make the argument that the car should be driven and enjoyed. When you rack up the miles are you proud of your accomplishments or do you start feeling guilty as it is no longer a garage queen. Also, if your car is a garage queen, do you feel like your missing out or do you take pride in having a low milage ap1/ap2?

 

Use it or lose it.

Perhaps its because I'm old enough to realize my own mortality. So what would I be saving it for. Use it while I still can really enjoy it. Whatever breaks or wears out, I'll fix.

 

Bought mine with high mileage, but in great shape. I daily drive it all summer long. Typically 85 miles a day to work and back with a few 1000 mile weekend getaways in it. I take care of it, but I don't buy cars to stare at them in the garage.

 

It's just a car. Enjoy it however you see fit!

 

It was hard for me to take the car out of the garage at first, but then at 5,000 miles I realized I was denying myself and I just couldn't do it anymore. Supercharged it then and never looked back!

Enjoy it yourself because if you don't, you're just holding on to it for someone else to enjoy somewhere down the road;-) Life is too short.

 

This. I bought it to drive it, not sit in a garage.

 

The long answer is that any car worth buying is too expensive to park. Not driving a car brings me no pleasure and, more than that, it brings me displeasure. Has the battery has gone flat? Are the seats getting stolen? Are mice nesting in it? Is my oil skunking? Are my tires too far rotten this year?

The short answer is I don't give a fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu@#.

I think it's the members with garage queens that spread the worry of stolen seats around. It validates their joyless lifestyle.

 

I think we should enjoy our car for sure. I do think daily driving an S2K can ruin the experience. I view the S2K as a toy, similar to a street bike or perhaps an ATV.

 

I can understand why some have Garage Queens. It makes sense for their lifestyle and situation. Many other of us don't have the capacity demands for a roomier daily driver and it makes economic and practical sense to drive it daily.

Sure, a mint, low mileage S2000 will be worth a lot more in the future but if you have to depreciate the value of another car to do this, you will likely not be ahead. Keeping a Garage Queen as a toy and a work of art you take pride in is a sensible choice but keeping it solely as an investment doesn't make sense to me.

 

Mine has been a DD since I got it 9 years ago. I honestly don't want to drive another car. When I rent a car traveling, a little part of me dies inside. I had a compression test done 3 months ago, at 116k the engine is still showing 228 psi. My mechanic did the test an additional 3 times because he couldn't believe it. Why worry about the miles? Just take care of it and enjoy it!