I can't help but wonder,... especially after reading about so many wrecks here on this forum. If you go by U.S. production/sales numbers, roughly 50,000 - 60,000 S2000's have been sold here. This is over a period of more than 7 years. There is always some attrition due to accidents which render some vehicles unrepairable, and over very long periods of time, by vehicles being totally worn out and scrapped. This latter should not be too significant for the S2000 population. But the former? Lots of our cars have been through track events, and perhaps far worse, lots have been through informal competitive events on our streets and roads. Is there any way to estimate the total effect on vehicle population? Lets face it: a larger percentage of S2000's get totalled via aggressive driving than, say, Cadillac Sedans de Ville.

 

Did you have a question? Do a car max search and you can find plenty of low milage options. Not to mention honda is still making new ones. Supply meet demand.

If were just talking here, a note-able portion of S2000 owner have it as a second/weekend vehical. The significately lowers the accident rate. Continuing the speculation. In 2004 Honda change the steering bias from oversteer to understeer. This should have lowered the accident rate, and removed this "bias" Does a carmax search show significantly more MY04+ cars?

 

On average, 7k S2000s are sold yearly. Even if 1k were wrecked each year, there are still tons of S2000s on the road, and plenty of garage queens. They're not Tuckers.

It only gets hard to find specific color combos, like GPW/blue (sold one year, Canada only), or an AP1 GPW/tan, sold only one year, maybe 500-800 were produced.

I would just assume that roughly 10% of the total population of S2000s has been lost to wrecks, theft, etc, and 20% have been abused. That leaves plenty of cars to choose form.

 

Hope I wasn't misunderstood. I have had my S2000 for five years and one month, and 34,000 miles. The only body damage to it was a fairly modest rear-end collision, when an old f*rt 70 something retiree behind me in his big fat Buick failed to apply the brakes in response to my slowing down.

My question arose out of curiosity, and a concern about long term parts availability. The S2000 replaced a 1993 RX-7 twin turbo. Only about 10,000 of those were ever produced. Many were wrecked due to aggressive driving, and many more have doubtless been junked because of the high mortality rate of the Wankel engine. Mine was still good at 121,000 miles, which was apparently a great miracle. Most bit the Big One at about 60,000 or less. The twin sequential turbos and the electronic engine controls (primitive by today's standards) were also very hard to maintain. You almost never see any of those RX-7's on the road. Hence my concern about S2000, although it is far more reliable and produced in considerably greater numbers.

 

Hey, going into the 8th year of production, I wouldn't be concerned. The RX-7 twin turbo was problematical to begin with, whereas the S2000 is essentially reliable -- truly a paragon of reliability compared to the RX-7.

The numbers will ultimately provide a healthy parts market for many years.

All that said, we are definitely losing quite a few of these to accidents. I wonder if anyone has any stats on that.

 

It isn't like we bought Enzos. A bit of Darwinism...only those who can drive survive.