Not sure how i didn't notice this thread? weird.
Yeah i have owned my S2000 for around two years now. Well two years this summer anyway. Having only used it as a summer car, it sits in my driveway for 6 months of the year. That might well change when the pay monthly VED kicks in towards the end of this year. But this year i taxed it early (1st of march) and i have been loving it! i have to be honest i did not really start gelling with it until last summer when the other half and I drove to the south of france in it for a weeks holiday. We did 3100 miles in a week. I was expecting it to be pretty uncomfortable but i was pleasently surprised, the cabin was certainly cosy but i never felt cramped if i'm honest. The car is fairly noisy but i knew that going into it because of the canvas roof.
From a dynamic point of view if i am being honest it feels a little better than the DC5, certainly it takes some getting used to. Getting your head around the fact the driven wheels are at the back took me a wee while. It was always in the back of my mind when i was driving briskly or in bad weather. But as i have used it more and more i have gotten used to that and now i feel very confident with it, so much so i feel on roads i know very well i can drive down them as fast if not slightly quicker than the Teg.
The boot is small, its not as practical as the integra, which is always in the back of my mind if there is ever anything i need carried around. For example i got new brake discs and pads all round for the teg delivered to my folks house so i took the S2000 round to pick them up and had to take the box down to its component parts to get it all in the boot. But needless to say as above we got a weeks worth of luggage in the boot and when the roof is up there is this well/shelf of space that sits behind the driver and passenger seats that is a very convenient space for soft and light things such as blankets and pillows (what we used it for on our france trip). This allowed us to drive for 32 hours solid at one point.
A few points about running it, its drinks fuel, i can get around 300 miles out of a tank for my commute but thats generally pretty relaxed driving. if you are in vtec alot you will use alot of fuel. the rear tyres are really wide, 255 on the facelift like mine so they are not cheap to replace (fortunately i have not had to do this yet)
The earlier prefacelift models are very raw often considered to be alot like a rear wheel drive 96 spec DC2 without a roof. They have a bit of a reputation for swapping ends aswell as they are very short wheelbase. the facelift (04 plus and the second set of facelifts at 06 plus) had revised geometry setups that made the handling a little more manageable. Also a few other little trick things like a clutch delay valve which dramatically reduces off the line wheelspin, so much so that i have never managed to spin the wheels on the S2000 because it feels like i am killing the clutch. The back has stepped out on me once when the tyres were stonecold in the dead of night at the end of october, it was on a very slow junction tho so it was just a little surprising.
Hopefully i have given you a little insight into the S2000. Personally i am getting on very well with mine, missing the integra at the moment as the brakes need to be replaced so its been layed up for a while.
