Nothing happened. there are PLENTY of folks on this forum that have had no problems.

 

I think that list reflects the kind of people that buy those cars more than anything else and their attitudes towards their car. The S2000 tends to attract more vocal people than do a lot of other cars. People who have S2000s seem to voice concern about everything and get up in arms over the smallest things. I'd say your average economy car driver doesn't consider it a good use of time to complain publicly about the problems in his/her car A lot of us bought the S2000 for more than mere transportation thus we tend to care about it a lot more than we would for, say, a Civic, or Ford Focus. How many of you would put up a post and/or complain publicly about a problem in your beater vs your S2000?

 

I am wondering how some of the owners are treating the car. When I read this forum about (for example) dumping the clutch to get a good start, my guess is owner abuse and not Honda unreliability.

 

Honda advertises 0-60 in less than 6 seconds for the S2000.
How else are owners suppost to accomplish that without dumping the clutch?

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by hoof
[B]I think that list reflects the kind of people that buy those cars more than anything else and their attitudes towards their car.

 

I'm wondering if the S2000 sells enough units to draw statistical significance from the complaints about it.

Yes, this number is weighted by number of units sold, but if car sells 3 units, and 1 has a problem...see where I'm going?

When the number of units is low, the margin of error for determining this goes up.

Between this, and the number of complaints generated because of anal DSM's who ask, "Did you take the car up to 9000 RPM?" and claim driver neglect/abuse for legitimate warranty claims...I'm sure the number is higher than it should be.

It's not like we didn't know our car wasn't Honda's Redhaired StepChild.

 

Quote from Phantom:

Every vehicle made has a 0-60 time. Ours seems to be used as a dragster by many owners. Yes, I'm interested in how quick my car is. I'm just not interested in taking it to a drag strip. On the other hand, if I could be on a closed road course, that would be a dream come true.
You have to admit, there is a lot of individuals here that brag about racing this car and that. If they have any engine, clutch, transmission, or rear end problems do you think they won't try to get some warranty work done? Even though it is their abuse of the car?

 

Is there any hope of getting some clarifications on the nature of the list? For all I know they could just be making up the numbers. Has anyone tried to contact the lawyers to see what they have to say about publishing such a list? Can a car manufacturer sue them for misrepresentation of information? [I am not advocating law suites, but since the web site is published by a law firm, I am just thinking of giving them a taste of their own medicine.]

 

I forgot the exact percent, so im not gonna say a random percent, but a large amount of information on the internet is NOT right. Don't believe everythign you see...

 

I did an intensive search for "COMPLAINT INDEX RATIO" in a context of the lemon law. Nothing exists. This list is simply a statistic based on total number of complaints per a certain number of vehicles.

This doesn't mean the cars a lemon, it just means the car is probably more complicated than people's level of stupidity will allow.

Go onto NHTSA.ORG and see how many stupid things people complain about.

I don't think this chart has any relationship to the number of Lemon Law claims for the vehicles listed.