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Originally Posted by Kimsey47
Roger... But if you did five year finance for a $12000 S2000 your car payment is like $170-190 unless your finance rate sucked.
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I just went and looked, there's
maybe 4 decent S2k's under $15k (none under $13k that don't need at least a few thousand in repairs off the bat if done professionally, I dismissed salvage titles).
It's a 15 year old car with at least 80k miles on the clock, it
WILL need work to get to the track reliably. Not to mention most previous owners typically don't know what a torque wrench is and treated it like any other Honda.
IMO it's a gamble if you could actually hit the track with an S2000 that I would have 100% confidence in driving at the limit with a budget any smaller than $15k (full fluid flush, tires, brakes, full on inspection of every nook and cranny, roll bar). Better off shelling out $15k-$20k for the car to start with a clean well maintained one and sparing no expense preparing the car.
Waay outside OP's desired budget. Sure he could probably make it work but there's cheaper fun to be had and S2000's are still coming down (last I checked there were only one or two under $15k and they were garbage, now there's a couple worth looking at in person and >10 riced out, salvaged, and beaten half to death).