- A 130-Mile Honda S2000 CR that past sold for $200k successful 2022 is being offered for merchantability again.
- The constricted variation exemplary has covered conscionable 7 miles since its proprietor took it 2 years ago.
- An archetypal model sticker shows the driver-focused VTEC instrumentality outgo $38,465 erstwhile new.
We’ve each dreamt of buying a perfect, no-miles illustration of our favourite youngtimer and enjoying however choky and unneurotic it feels arsenic we carve done immoderate twisty roads, rev needle hovering conscionable earlier the reddish zone. But the reappearance connected the auction circuit of a barely-used S2000 Club Racer that sold for $200k successful 2022 reminds america of what truly happens to those pristine, unrepeatable classics.
Almost 2 and a fractional years aft changing hands via Bring a Trailer erstwhile it had a specified 123 miles (198 km) connected the clock, the yellowish S2000 is erstwhile again being offered connected the aforesaid auction website. And the mileage inactive lone reads 130 miles (209 km). Which means that successful the much than 800 days the existent proprietor has had custody of the Honda, he’s managed to adhd conscionable 7 miles (11 km).
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It seems cruelly ironic that the astir driver-focused of each S2000s should find itself being driven truthful little. The CR’s 2.4-liter VTEC made the aforesaid 237 hp (240 PS) arsenic the ones successful regular S2000s of the period, but the 699 Club Racers built for 2008 and 2009 each benefited from uprated suspension components, wider rear tires, a quicker steering rack and a bespoke aero package. The CR besides came with a removable hardtop, but nary folding brushed top.
We tin recognize wherefore the proprietor wanted to support his concern by preserving the Honda’s originality and condition. You don’t walk $200k connected a CR and regular it erstwhile you tin bargain a still-excellent 24,000-mile (39k km) illustration for $65k and get overmuch of the aforesaid experience. Cars similar this are each astir the investment.
The question is, volition the proprietor recognize a instrumentality connected his? This CR mightiness beryllium a unicorn, but that $200k it went for successful April 2022, erstwhile utilized and classic prices were booming, was a batch of breadstuff – the archetypal model sticker shows the archetypal proprietor paid a comparatively tiny $38,465, the equivalent of astir $57k successful modern cash.
At the clip of writing, with 3 days of the no-reserve auction inactive to run, bids were astatine $100k. What bash you deliberation it’ll spell for? You tin cheque retired the auction listing here.
H/T to The Drive