I honestly thought that it was my driving when first starting out. I've worked out how to eliminate it in your driving, and that's not by tapping the throttle!

Only positive driving will eliminate the kangarooing effect in my car. Any cautiousness is met with what looks like a learner 'bunny hopping' the car.

But I've heard from others that this is quite common, as proved by the comments above me

 

I think it's quite common on the S2000.

Having owned many Jap cars, the S is the only one which this happened on.

Hence I wrote the thing in the FAQ.

 

Yep, it happens to mine in traffic too......... I just avoid standing traffic now, and keep my foot down....

 

Many years ago there was a lot of comment about this problem here.

I still sometimes have a session of it occasionaly, especially when i havent driven the car for a while and been driving all sorts of junk in the mean time

Its driver related and is to do with the closed loop system of foot, throttle, engine , brain etcetc being to responive to small inputs and the loop amplifying the result, and ones foot bouncing. Esp when tiddling about as said by some here, put some damping into the loop and rest throllte foot on side of footwell to damp the system.

DOes this happen on later cars ? I understand these are "fly by wire" ?