Someone Bought A Brand New Honda S2000 In Australia Last Month

A Honda dealer in New South Wales held on to a late model S2000 for eight years, finally selling it a few weeks ago

Updated: 12 Sep 2024

Don’t worry, you haven’t misread that title, nor have you stumbled upon an eight-year-old news story. Yes, believe it or not a Honda dealer in Australia really did sell a brand new Honda S2000 last month.

The ladies and gents at Car Advice stumbled upon some VFACTS information (VFACTS being Australia’s car industry statistics) that suggested a brand new S2000 had been sold in November. The publication promptly contacted Honda Australia, and were told it wasn’t a mistake.

It turned out an unnamed dealer in New South Wales had kept a 2008 example to one side as a showroom vehicle, and for whatever reason never sold the thing. Until November that is, when a punter managed to snag it for an unknown price.

It’s still unclear whether or not Honda will make a successor to the S2000 (rumours come and go), so it could be a while before this Honda dealer sells anything like this again…

Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.

Comments

This car is 8 years old and yet it doesn’t feel or look outdated
If they were to relaunch this car like it is it would still be competitive…

No case da mx5 is betta

Pretty much anyone could relaunch any car they made in the 90s and early 2000s and they’d be a hit. I’d buy a brand new mk1 Focus like that (clicks fingers).

So basically they locked it in a time capsule and sold it 8 years later.

Still better than that Prowler

Probably posted by internet explorer

InternetExplorer

Might as well put the 2008 version back into production….

honda get out from your cave and look at the sun…

Ahaha, yeah the world could use a couple less civic si’s in favor of the s2000 right?

And then Honda revives the Honda Del Sol

Impressive

Still a hugely impressive car even for today’s standards.

So, engine seized, rubbers dried out, hoses shedding skin, all the plastics fatigued, seats hardened..?

If it’s been in the showroom all that time I doubt it, they probably started it up and let it run from time to time if they knew even a little about car maintenance.