most of the ap1 owners finally accepted that ap2's > ap1's and decided to get the ap2.. hehe

 

A question for patinum:

Did you find that color combinations were the same for consecutive VINs or was this more of a random distribution? Great investigative work!

 

For the most part, color combinations were consecutive. There were the occasional randoms - like they would make 10 black, 1 yellow, then 6 silver. I have a couple theories on this. My guess is they were either special order or the other cars went to another (non-US) market. So maybe it was 10 black, (3 yellow headed to Canada), 1 yellow, 6 silver. Similarly, most cr's were made in small batches as well.

 

I wonder how many of the 66,000+ have survived.

 

No wonder it took me 4 months to find me BB with all red, they only made 275 of them.

 

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I did not know that. My 01 was the 2 tone and my wife hated the interior. That is why I had the black one you have with the all red which she liked. Now I have a Spa, 2 blacks was enough.

 

wow very cool stuff

 

Me too, it would be cool if someone could compile or even guesstimate how many are left. I see them being parted out all the time in the FS section.

There has to be less than 60k left now.

 

Ran across some more data points; these come from the NHTSA's database of theft statistics. Manufacturers must report their total model-year production for each model (U.S. cars only). It seems the NHTSA revises these estimates up to 2 or 3 years after the fact, which may explain why data is only available through MY2007.

Result:
Here's the link, if you want to play around with it:
http://www.nhtsa.gov/cars/rules/theft/theft.cfm

Note: the data clearly isn't complete, nor always correct (see below). Plus, a given car might have several different names/manufacturers for different years (e.g. the NSX is variousy listed as NSX by Acura, NSX by Honda/Acura, Acura NSX by Honda, and Acura NSX by Honda/Acura!) Your best bet is to list the complete data for each model year you're interested in and browse the list for the model you want.

Some tidbits:
17 Bugatti Veyrons in MY06
102 Ferrari Enzos (all MY03)
210 F40s from MY90-92 (90+60+60) - no data for earlier years
56 F50s (all MY95)
2219 Testarossas from MY85-92 (peak 426 in MY90)
and last:
775,153 Ford Mustangs in MY02?! That's actually a mistake - real figure's about 140K.

 

Curious as to where you find the number CR you have. Does each year of CR manufacture begin at #1, or does the number go sequentially up regardless of wether or not it is a CR or base model. My CR's 08 serial # is 1567 does that mean it is the 1567th CR made or the 1567th S2000 made for 08? I would like to know what number CR it is out of all CR's made. Also, mine was made in 1/08. When the last CR was made?