People all over the world know about the Honda S2000. A roadster that needs to be driven and serviced often so that its naturally aspirated 2.2-liter four-cylinder engine works at its best. Except for one Club Racer that has very few miles on it. The Rio Yellow racing car is back on the market. It was last sold for $200,000 in 2022. The odometer shows that only seven miles have been added to the car since it was last bought. You can now buy the little Honda on Bring a Trailer without making an order. There are still almost six days left until the auction ends, so there is still time to hit or even beat the previous high bid of $200,000. The best offer is just over $100,000 at this point. Five figures is a big jump from the car’s stated MSRP of $38,465 when it was brand new, even if the gavel falls right now. The only things that have changed about this time capsule are a few extra miles and some new scenery (from Indiana to Pennsylvania). I don’t know whether to be shocked or upset by this. It’s most likely just sad, but it could be a little of both. It’s impossible not to want to drive this car and make memories in it. “Sports cars need emotion,” Chris Rosales said when we looked at the S2000 CR. How much feeling can you get from a car that doesn’t move? The driver was instructed by renowned Honda suspension and handling engineer Shigeru Uehara to “Please take good care of your S2000, keep it by your side for a long time, and enjoy it from the bottom of your heart.” Does this S2000 owner’s happiness end after only seven miles driven in two years? If you want to keep this car as a historical piece, you should do that. Please put it in a museum so that future generations can see what was possible in the past. The freedom of a droptop, on the other hand, is taken away by private collections. But no, I think this was a business meant to make money and be sold. Nico2015 is the present owner and is very involved in the BaT community. He said in an interview in 2021 that he wasn’t really interested in gathering. “In the traditional sense, I tried collecting,” he told BaT. “However, I felt bad for a car if I didn’t drive it much and sold it to someone else to enjoy.” “I guess I have been collecting all my life because I’ve always had a bunch of cars but never really kept any – churn and burn,” he said with a comparable tone. “I liked having different cars, but I only kept them for a few years. Keep switching out a dozen cars since each one goes about a thousand miles a year. After that, it went up to twelve, three, and so on. I was better at driving than collecting.” Unless it’s a perfect S2000 that he wants to avoid owning or driving, I hope the next person who owns this S2000 takes care of it like Honda did.
