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

I had Little Buddy, my beloved ‘81 Honda Civic, for many, many years before he died. The guy who bought him was looking for a project car. He said he found a BRAND NEW 1981 Honda Civic for like $10,000. Oh, how I miss my ole beat-up Little Buddy (sniff sniff). If I had the money, I’d buy that brand new ‘81 just to have Buddy #2.

All the vtec jokes, and they cannot even spell it correctly…

There is no difference between the 1999 model and the 2009 model except a few extra gadgets. It is really financially stupid but a new one let alone that it is eight years old

engine?

8 years without running or maintenance… yeah good deal…

They probably drained it of all its fluids and filled it back up when it sold…or did what the Canadian Toyota dealer did with their Mk III Supra they recently sold

Same thing I was thinking about. Although I’d hope either the buyer or seller would be sensible and refresh some of those old parts, such as tires. Although I imagine fluids can sit for a few years and still be useful, albeit not in IDEAL condition.