check out this 2005 s2000 unique sports car they don't make
them anymore which is really sad but here's one they're appreciated in value
and i'll show you why one of the best roadsters
ever made maybe even the best it's a honda
convertible roadster so it's dependable it starts all the time it has freezing
cold air conditioning you don't see that for very long in most sports cars
this thing's 16 years old everything still works perfectly fine
typical with a honda but what do we have with a honda that's not typical
this is rear-wheel drive it is a classic two-seat rear-wheel drive sports car
hard to find that on a honda even the civic cars they're front-wheel
drive they say they're going to be making a rear wheel drive one but for
our purists you want rear-wheel drive now these
s2000s have a lot going for them but mainly it's the power and the
handling people who don't know cars will look at this and say
well what's the difference between this and a mazda miata well in 2005
this thing cost about eight thousand dollars more
you got a lot more for it this baby's got around 240 horsepower
well the mod is the miata that's 147 horsepower
and even if you bought the turbo version that only had 174 horsepower you can't
compare the driving experience of the two cars
at all and all that horsepower is connected to what a six-speed standard
transmission that's all they used in these cars now i
tell my own customers if they're gonna go cheap and buy a mazda miata
i tell them make sure you get the standard transmission they're a lot more
fun to drive because they're dogs with automatics
well these don't even come with automatics so right there
they've lost a lot of the market considering that
95 percent of americans now drive automatic transmissions this is a
driver's car it's got a serious engine this is a honda double overhead cam vtec
it was the first real serious vtec that put out a lot of horsepower
but it's still extremely reliable it doesn't use modern tricks like gdi
injection turbocharger or supercharger the engines hold up a
lot longer you throw like some of my customers have a
supercharger kit on a mazda miata after a while the engine's going to blow
it wasn't made to take that kind of horsepower
this doesn't have one i mean if you want to go insane enough go ahead and throw
one on here get 300 something horsepower but it's a
light car with a lot of horsepower anyway and if you want it to last a long
time you're best to leave it stuck and there's another reason to leave it
stocked take this 2005 they only sold seven
thousand of them in the united states they become rare
and rare since they're such great cars their price is going up
and up if you want to get a used one you better hurry up
before they start to get astronomical and you'll be paying a ton with this
setup they're very reliable as long as you change the oil every 5 000 miles
they can last a really long time parts are still available for them they're
starting to really rise in value so if you think about get
one you better hurry up make up your mind
compare that to mars the miata it's the only two seed roasters
ever to sell more than a million units they make tons of them so
you can get them dirt cheap you're not gonna get one of these dirt cheap
anymore it's not going to happen you could a
decade ago but not today bigger deal of a car i mean if you're the type of guy
who's just once a cute little sports car or a gal
go ahead and get a miata get a dirt cheap drive it around have fun but if
you're a serious driver and you want an investment get a good
one of these and hey i can just about guarantee you they're
going to go up in value as time passes now if you want to modify things feel
free this has a nice solid aluminum radiator that's actually
a better upgrade anyway and it also has an upgraded
exhaust system
and did you notice something no backfiring even that bmw
i had when i revved it up it backfired too
this is honda top-notch engineering these things people that are into
serious driving machines this is the kind of car
that you want now this thing's got like 140 000 miles on it
it still sounds like that these were built
to last you might think tiny little engine
well yeah that tiny little engine puts out 240 horsepower
and it holds up that's where the vtec really came in this was the first big
vtec that honda put out in a real horsepower
engine and they hold up over time you heard it
it's got no problems and look at the style i mean
this thing never goes out of style you can say oh it looks like a miata
well it's a two-seat sportster but it doesn't drive like a miata
just look at the dash what do you see big old tachometer it's a serious
driver's car nice six-speed transmission a simple
parking brake that works and won't break not that modern electronic crap and it's
a honda so freezing cold air conditioning let me
tell you this is a two seater you got air conditioning that cold
you're gonna end up turning it down or like i doing these things drive it with
the top down and you still got the cold air blowing
in your face it gets hot here in houston you see a lot of guys driving around
with a top down but the air conditioning coming out full blast
and of course this was one of the first cars to have the cool racing start
button and as you can hear when you close the door
this is not a flimsy car it is a very solid built car
it has to be they handle horsepower that it has and yes
it has a trunk you know it's a small trunk there's no arguing that
but it's a two-seater they got room for jack stands and as you can see on the
front he's got drilled racing rotors on it you
know they didn't come that way but he wants a little bit more
performance so i don't know people are gonna say scott if it's such a great car
why'd they stop making them well when they stopped
making them the giant recession came they didn't sell that many of them and
they were talking about bringing them back but the recession was
put an end to that let's face it you make excellent motorcycles for speed
put a bunch of this technology in their cars but most of their money is made on
conventional car sports cars like i said before the mazda
miata is the only two-seat roadster that ever sold more than a million total
these were great cars but they weren't making enough money
selling them especially being a two-seater oh two
door cars look at honda they phased out their two-door civic now
they're only gonna be making four doors going towards suvs vans and
cars are kind of fading away this was a great car they stopped making them more
for financial reasons than anything else
starts right up because it's a honda you're gonna feel the bumps it's a
sports car and let's try a little acceleration here
and here's the first gear pull we'll come to a stop and take off
now for quite some time this little four-cylinder engine held the record for
most horsepower per liter until a ferrari took over
let me tell you something else you buy yourself a used ferrari
you better have a few dollar bills lying around to pay for the repairs
this thing you can work on it yourself like the owner of this car does it's a
honda look at the working space you want to
adjust the valves easy to take the top off now it is a
honda so you don't generally have to work on them all that much but when you
do there's all kinds of room now if you're
not a serious driver you'll probably be happy with the mazda
miata it'll drive all day long it generally won't break down kind of a
dog with an automatic but with the standard it's kind of fun to drive
around but serious driving as you see these things can take it they can hold
up they're honda engines honda's the number one manufacturer of engines in
the world they know what they're doing when
they're making an engine and this was one of their high-tech priorities back
in the day that still holds up but if you're
looking to buy one of these things you better hurry up
because they're starting to appreciate and value like mad there were only so
many of them sold they don't make them anymore they're all
standard transmissions you want to have fun
for still a relatively cheap price you better hurry up
before they start getting as pricey as 67 mustangs
so if you're the type of person that wants a fast sporty
beautifully handling car you might check out one of these s2000s
before it's too late and they're getting 50 60 000
a piece for them so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair
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